The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-04

I And you get your eyebrows away over
% the back of your head because l call +
him Frank. If he were man l had only +
seen two or three times, you wouldn't be =
1orrified at my going to Kioto because he r
happened to be going there, and yet you ,
talk about my going with Frank, who's II
quite an old friend of mine now. Why, II
he's been to see me every day for a ,
month, Anyhow, if you think it's so aw-
full why don't you go along too? I'll tell ,
you are my grandmother dress ,
ed up in a mans clotneS."
Thank you very much for the invita-
tion," said 1, ':but / think l won't go. Do
try to be serious for five minutes, won't
YOU You know it's only because 1 like
YOU and take an interest in you that 1 L
speak"
II don't know whether it is or not"
said she. Il think you're half afraid
Frank and / will get married before we
come back Why shouldn't l marry him,
for that matter? You are always talk
ing about responsibility, and he's re-
spectacle, isn't her.
Yes" said I.
And I'm not? What's the reason I'm
not? I'm divorced, but L divorced my
husband; he didn't divorce me. Is it my |
being engaged to Temehichi that makes
it SO dreaoIul? Because if it is, I'm not
engaged to him. He asked me to marry
him, and 1 told him I'd think about it.
The Queen of England couldn't give him
a more respectable answer than that,
could she? And as for Temehichi, he be-
longs to very old family, and he's aw-
fully poor, and 1 hear you and Frank
say the same things about lots of your
friends in England"
TT is not your marrying Temehichi
that we are talking about, said 1.
''And perhaps Temehichi is good enough
for me, but I'm not good enough for Sir
Francis Scarlett-I suppose that is what
you mean?" said the little woman.
Il mean that you will get yourself
talked about if you go off to Kioto with
him, after the way you two have been
larking about Yokohama. That is what
L mean,' said /.
"And, if you please, who is going to
talk about us?'' asked Mrs. Potwin. you!
There isn't anybody else here who knows
US both. So the worst of it is you'll have
to talk to yourself. I can see you lock-
ing yourself up in a room and wagging
your head at yourself and saying: Real
ly, my dear fellow, it's a most shocking
business and then agreeing with your
self that it is
do you want to marry Scarlett?''
: said l.
Zone question deserves another" said
Mrs. Potwin. Do you think it would be
a very hard thing for me to do if l did
want to-"
II think, if you ask me-" / replied
that it would be easy enough for you to
: get married. 1 fancy that the consuls OF
, the missionaries or some of those people
are in the habit of marrying foreigners
5 here. But for the future, 1 am not
: sure that you wouldn't find it harder tc
turn yourself into an English woman an
e lead the life you would have to lead Il:
] Lady Scarlet, than to turn yourself int,
q a Japanese woman and be the consort o.
! a shotgun
II don't know how that would be-" sh,
replied, "for I've never been to England
< but I'll promise you one thing, if 1t will
e make your mind any easier: that if 1 d,
: marry Frank, it won't be until after
d have been over to his country and SCI
e how / like it,
= "It is an original way of acquaintin.
l yourself with the various countries o
, the world said I, Ito engage yoursel
to men of one nationality after another
and make trial trips to their RESPECTIVE
: homes. Only you will have to draw TIL
: line somewhere, or you will be expert
, menting with a cannibal tribe one o
: these days, and have your pursuit o
y knowledge brought to an untimely end
v You needn't worry about that" sal
;. she. But, as@you seem to be sooworke
n up about it, 1 don't mind telling you on
+ thing: that the man 1 marry will be eth
{ "And you haven't made up your min
n whether it is to be Scarlet or Temehichi?
r. I asked.
: IF 1 have. 1 haven't told you" sal
! Mrs. Potwin.
p And 1 walked down the hill again
,S my hotel with no more definite informa
u. ton than that.
1T l saw them start on their journey, thes
d two extraordinary young people. The
te suite consisted of Scarlett's man, a na
lie tive courier and two of Mrs. Potwin
Y, little Japanese maids. / saw the proce:
g sion passing along the Bund on its wa
it to the railway station, and Mrs. Potwi
Id was kind enough to arrest the wild fligf
~ of her jinrikisha to bid me goodbye.
ir asked her why she was not taking
Of third maid with her. and also the litt
e. white donkey which L had bought for hi
Mt one day, and which she sometimes use
al to drive in a cart. They might as we
Id have a good big caravan while they al
IN about it, ! remarked. She told me tn;
to she hoped the two maids would chaperC
m one another, and that if she had take
IN the third maid she would also have neet
IS ed a fourth to chaperon the third; as f,
to the donkey, she didn't know what En-
ed lish manners and customs might be, b,
he that American ladies considered 1t hig
in ly indecorous to travel about with a do
re key And with this parting jeer, off 81
a went.
n I heard of the party's movements fro
er time to time, and 1 did not by any meal
ad find it necessary to talk to myself abo
lly them, as she had prophesied / should f
'es within a few days every man in the eli
ct knew about Scarlett's journey. An Anne
lite lean woman whom nobody knows can
DIV all sorts of eccentric things witho
Ike arousing any ones interest attentio
ng but a man with a position in the wor
'er such as Scarlet enjoyed does not posse
to the same immunity. Every one seem
his to know that Mrs. Potwin was a frie
icy of mine, and / was heartily weary of b
Tor ing questioned about them before tn
Ills came back to Yokohama-and they CT
MT tainly did not hurry themselves. Fro
ull Kioto they went all the way to Mkt
she and from there both of them wrote
ms me- Scarlet said he was having We
me good time, but that he still thought t
to inns abominable, and that was about
icy he had to say.
-, Mrs. Potwin was more communicate
w She said she had greatly enjoyed feedi
,n the fish at Kinkakuji, and that she h
nm gone to Nikko because she had heard II
IA a. the Japanese government was feeding
Ieu fish with which Lake Chuzenji had be