Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-21


see it through. Gilchrist went to Las
Palmas, in Grand Canary, by a British
African beat, because they start from
Liverpool. near which port he resided.
Mrs. Whitehead went by the same
steamer, because she thought there
! was less likelihood of meeting people
who knew her there and there would
be one OF the bigger and faster Cape
boats which go from the south of
England. And, to further this coy de-
sire, she decapitated her name, and
appeared on the purser's list as Mrs.
/ White. GilchTist foregathered with
her before they had brought Holyhead
/ over the quarter. because ne and she
were the only two passengers who had
net seen the necessity of going below
to lie down.
will you let me lash your deck
chair?'' he said, by way Of introduce
ton. "Th2 sea'll get worse soon, when
We open up the channel more, and
you may get a nasty SPILL
He very naturally got leave to do
that, and quite as naturally, wedged
himself in corner beside her and be-
gan to talk. That was the beginning
of it all. By the time they mad got
abreast of Lanes End, he had discov-
cred that her Christian name was Ed
it'll, and by the time they had crossed
the bay and were carrying the brown
hills of Portugal along on their port
beam ne had dropped into the habit
of letting slip the name of Edith with
the most skilled Inconsistencies when
ever there was none else within ear
shot.
He was not exactly new to this sort
of game, and nc more was she Ihey
owned upto the fact cheerfully. 4
do hate callow youths, said MIS-.
White; and, when | find myself PAIR
eG, off with school girls under two ard
twenty" said Gilchrist, 4 bolt as
soon as l conveniently can, and nave
a comfortable swear Let me drag
YOU a chair behind the lifebcat there,
and then you can smoke a cigarette.
One more cushion, please, Just ua-
der my feet" said Mrs. White; "and
now tuck the rug in about my feet.
Now. some men would be shocked At
my sitting here and smoking, when
half Portugal might be looking on at
US through race glasses for anything
we know. Others would be greedy,
and keep all their cigarettes to them
selves. You are neither one nor the
other, and, therefore, | like you.
Wherefore, I'm an infinitely lucky
man. said Gilchrist.
4 think you are pretty lucky all the
way round Nothing to do except
amuse yourself. You certainly aren't
going to Grand Canary for the good
Of your health, because you're the pic
ture of that already; and SO can
say you've got the cut CT a man gong
there ON business"
ooh. I'm going to kick up my heels,
and walk about, and climb he noun
tains and eat oranges and avocado
pears. At intervals l shall play lit
tie golf"
Delightful programme. Nothing
to do but amuse yourself. But don't
you get rather tired of it sometimes
ut hasn't bored me so far. When
a mans had enough Of one thing, he
can try another
That depnds on the mans income.
It's an exclusive game ringing the
changes too often"
We'll, | suppose it is, come to
think CT it," said Gilchrist. | started
the yachting mania last summer.
That came in rather heavy for a first
outfit Of materials"
Evidently" said Mrs. White, with
a sigh, you are a young man having
many possessions. What a blessed
comfort it must be to get away from
Z Of ,,,oop.
Gilchrist thought the matter over at
greater length that night when the
lights had been switched off in the
smoke room and the other passenger
had turned in, and he came to several
conclusions. Above all things he was
satisfied that it was entirely without
drawbacks to be we'll off He also
gave a good deal of his time to thinking
over Mrs. White He didn't quite
know whether he was in love with her
Or not: he couldn't quite define what
being in love meant; but he was COM
p.etely satisfied that she was the incest
woman on that particular steamer, and
possibly On many steamers. Moreover,
he reminded himself that he was
thirty-two, and was under instructions
from various relatives who took an in
terest in him to get married without
any further dawdling over it.
TC think over matter of this kind,
solus, at sea and under the suggestive
stars is very different affair to doing
the same prosaically at home Mrs.
White did not turn up all the next
morning and he was bored with his
own company. In the afternoon she
was also absent, and he grew more
bored. And In the evening, when she
turned up again, he proposed in the
first ten minutes, out of sheer relief
at seeing her again.
'Oh, and now | am happy" said Mrs.
White
He kissed her a great many times
she had an excellent method of kiss
ing-and they arranged to get married
in three months time in London and
spend the honeymoon at his shooting
place in Scotland.
But we won't let the cat out Of the
bag yet, dear said Gilchrist. and
then We can have our fun in Las
Palmas without being pointed out and
giving a free comic entertainment to
all the Other people"
mo, darling" said Mrs. White:
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