The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-06-25

At the best of. times kindorgartens
for the children of respectable trades
people are not particularly remunora.
tive, and the semidetached villa in Sy-
denhum was often sorely tried for petty
cash.
But when Teddy was appointed fourth
officer Of the X. y. q. companys steam
ship Cambrian Prince endless POSSIBLE
ties were opened up.
If you will remember that every
thing in TIL, world is ordained to a
certain end. you will see that Teddy's
future entirely depended on his falling
in luyc--irat love OF course, and not the
matter of fact businessliSo affair that
follows later
After his second voyage he obtained
4 fortnight'S leave and FASTENED home.
Being fond If tennis and such like
amusemunts, he was naturally brought
into contact with many charming girls,
who, because he was u strange man and
n sailor, were offusively polite.
Then he fell hopelossly in love with
horribly impossible girl, and in the
excitement Of the latest waltz proposed
and was accepted on the strength of
fourth officers pay, an incipient mus
tache and dozen or so brass buttons.
During the next voyage his behavior
toward unmarried women was marked
by that circumspection which should
always characterize an engaged man.
| He never allowed himself to forget
this for an instant, and his cabin had
for its chief ornament plush framed
likeness Of young lady gazing with a
wistful expression over palpably pho
tographic sea
Now, itwas necessary for his ultimate
| happiness that Teddy Colchester should
learn that, like his own brass buttons,
without constant furnishing a young
| lady's affection is apt to lose much Of
| its pristine brightness, and that too
much sea air is good for neither. He
| licked off the days Of absence, and as
/ his calendar lessened his affection in.
creased,
At Plymouth a letter met him,
jerliy, inlsy schoolgirl epistlo, evidently
written by writer very cold and mis-
cradle, and the first reading stunned
him.
Had he seen little more Of the real
world he would have been able to read
between the lines something to this eff
feet; You're Teddy, three months
away, and I'm madly in love with a
soldier"
Then he would have noted that the
writer was staying in Salisbury, after
which he would have hunted up his
home papers and discovered that the
Royal Wiltshire yeomanry cavalry were
encamped at Huntingdon Down.
But as he had only seen life through
! telescope he could not do this. Conso
quently his pain was trihe acute
His mother wrote him four pages of
sympathy.
But though he wondered at any girl
jilting her boy sho could not help
feeling of satisfaction at its being still
in her power to transmute throe-quar-
tiers Of his pay into food and raiment
for her brood.
Next voyage tho Cambrian Prince
had her full complement of passengers
and the Kangaroo Girl, whom perhaps
you may remember, was of the number
At Plymouth little reserved girl
joined, and rs she is considerably mixed
up in this story you must know that
she rejoiced in the unpretentious name
Of Kinks.
For the first week or so Teddy held
very much aloof from the passengers. en-.
gaging himself entirely with recollec-
tions Of the girl for whose sake he was
going to live only in memory.
Being an honest, straightforward
young fellow, he Of course followed the
prescribed programme of all blightod
love affairs He began by plying him.
self for the sorrow he was undergoing
then went on to picture the future that
might have been theirs had Sic married
him, but before they were clear of the
bay he had arrived at the invariablc
conclusion and was plying himself for
plying the girl who was foolish enough
to jilt such an entirely estimable young
man as Edward Braithwaite Colchester.
One moonlight night after leaving
"Gib, " he was leaning over the rails Of
the promenade deck feeling sympathet-
ically inclined to the world in general
when somebody stepped up behind him.
It was Miss Kinks. She prefaced her
conversation with two or three questions
about the sea, and he made the astound.
ing discovery that her voice POSSESSED
just the note of sympathy he required
for his complaint.
He had felt sorry for her because
other people snubbed her, and she for
him because she had been told exagger-
ated stories about his love affair. To
gether they made rather a curious
couple.
When, under the supervision Of the
Kangaroo Girl, the shore party for Ma
Piles was being organized Miss Kinks
was tacitly left out. Somehow the i'm.
preston got about that she was poor,
and no one cared about paying her ex'
penses.
But eventually she did go, and it was
in the charge of the fourth officer.
When she thanked him for his kindness,
he forgot for the moment his pledge 'tc
live henceforth only in memory"
The Kangaroo Girl, on discovering
that Miss Kinks bad been ON shore under
the escort of that dear little pink OFF
Ger, " was vastly amused and christeneG
them Cupid and Psyche
Now, the end of it all was that Teddy
began TO find himself caring less anG
less for the the thumb stained photograph
in his locker and more and more for the
privilege of pumping his sorrows into q
, sympathetic ear
By the time they reached Alden hi
had convinced himself that his first love
affair had been the result of a too gen
erous nature, and that his second wa.
the one and only real passion of his life.
At Colombo Miss Kinks went ashore
with the doctors party, tiffined al
Mount Lavinia, dined at the GRAND
Oriental and started back for the ship
about o o'clock.
Teddy, begrimed with coal dust
watched each boatload arrive, and al
he did his love increased.
On account of the coal barges it wal
impossible for boats to come alongside
Consequently their freight had t.
chamber from hulk to hulk Miss Hinki
was the last of her party to venture
and just as the doctor, holding out hi!
band, told her to jump the hulk swayed
out and she fell. with scream. into