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

didn't want to. And in the meanwhile,
she said, she did not want to have it AN
This remarkable letter ended
With the statement that they expected to
be in Yokohama again at the end of the |:
month.
AS matter of fact, they didn't come I
back at the end of the month, nor until
halfway through the next month. And /
when they did come back. Scarlet told /
me in all seriousness that Mrs. Potwin 1
was going to marry him, and that he
thought she was the sweetest, brightest |
prettiest little woman he had ever seen, /
and that he was as happy as could be, |
and that perhaps his people at home |
wouldn't like it, but that he didn't care
whether they liked it or not.
I offered him a cigar.
To ask him to smoke seemed good, |
safe, conservative sort of thing to say,
and 1 could not think of anything more
definite that 1 thought it would be well
to put into words.
He went on to tell me that he knew
that in a great many respects Mrs. Pot
wins ideas of life were different from
the ideas of life entertained by our wom-
en- at home, but that she was so sweet
and so kind and so bright that he was
sure she would get on with any sort of
people anywhere in the world.
/ gave him a match
He next recited to me long list of the
Americans, and remarked that all of
these American women had shown them
selves pretty well able to hold their own
| in England, and that many of them had,
for that matter, acquired no small de-
gree of popularity in society.
| 1 asked him to have drink.
| If he wanted any expression of opinlol
from me, he was disappointed. / was de-
termined that if he crowded me into a
ioCr n m ca w hnf L
about his projected marriage, that l
would tell him 1 thought him altogether
out of his mind; but l preferred not to
say so as long as 1 could hold my peace.
But / talked to Mrs. Potwin. 1 told
her it was not thing to be joked about;
that Scarlet was a very honest fellow,
and a very kind fellow, and very good
| fellow, and a fellow I liked very much,
and that he seemed to have put it into
her hands to make him very unhappy if
she saw fit so to do. 1 told her frankly
} enough that was by no means sure that
it lay equally in her power to make hin,
5 happy, and that, as for her own chances
3 of happiness, 1 thought that England
: would be about the last place in the
: world in which she would like to live
: Then / asked her what she had heard
from Temehichi She showed me the las
: letter she had received from him. 1t was
quite respectful and quite well expressed
I
ety, and 1t occupied itself chiefly with sug
4 gestions for the furtherance of her health
e and comfort in Japan. Apparently TIE
4 mehichi had as yet heard nothing abou
her flying about with Scarlet, and h,
|. seemed to be quite at peace with him
0 self and with her.
II Only few days later, on Mrs. Potwin
e birthday, she received a strange sort o
. present, which Temehichi must have ha
do fnr hnr In,
o bronze helmet, and was clamped upo
I the head of a large French wax doll
IS which came with it. 1t entirely cOvere
o the head Of the doll, but was furnishe
IL with hinges at one side; and, when
spring was touched and the joint opened
lie the little helmet could be removed. TIL
l; helmet itself was in the form of a bird
II head, the feathers being simulated i
10 white enamel. The eyes were two sma
/ garnets, and the bill, which was shape
&c like that of a hawk, was made of gol6
Mrs. Potwin was delighted with this ne,
20 toy, which was indeed most ingenousl
If CONSTRUCTED and most exquisitely finished
If and it was a droll sight to see the dol
r with it's pink cheeks and staring blu
70 eyes, suddenly transformed into a myth
,e monster, like the sun-god of the Mix
i when it's head was covered by the casqut
IF didn't see how Temehichi could hav
If found the money to pay for so elaborat
., his mysteries. So far as knew she hadn
~ told Scarlet anything about Temehich
and didn't think it was my business
ie enlighten him. But she used, when
u found her alone, to put the helmet o
the doll, and, solemnly shaking her fir
~, ger at its golden beak upbraid it afte
the manner of Temehichi, calling it "Gol
Beak" and bad Woman performane
III in which she delighted.
Take it altogether the little woman
- Japanese home was pleasant place
d go for an hour two, and I was sorI
when it was time for me to say good-by
Sc to her.
eir 1t was black March weather when
"a found myself in England again, and
rs was not until May that Scarlet can
IS home. A few days after l had heard
ay his return he wrote to ask me to sper
in a week with him at his place in Oxfor,
hit shire. l had maue up my mind to go
L to town about the time his letter cam
a but L am not one of those men who ca
tie mot live unless they pass the gates of s
er James Palace certain number of tim
ed every day for a certain number of weel
ell in every year, and I love the upper rive
re Scarletts place is about halfway betwe,
lat oxford and Lechlade, on the river-sid
on a great rambling old Elizabethan hous
en- without any such architectural prete
ID lsions as to hinder his making it thoroug
Tor ly comfortable. Scarlet himself car
lg- to meet me at Oxford, and told me
nut we drove out that he had prevailed up
III several ether men to impinge upon t
IN London season, and that he thought
he should have very jolly time of it.
"And how did you leave Mrs. Potwin
on 1 asked him. Is she still flying up a
ms down the Bund at Yokohama in
,ut rikisha?'
for 81 can't drive tandem and talk abe
Tub Mrs. Potwin at the same time" said Sea
err lett. you shall hear all about her Il
do evening" And then he talked horse
put subject which always bores me to dealt
on, until we turned into the long avenue
rid DUnkin House, just as the sunset "
ess reddening the lustrous lily-pads in
ned river
end When I went down to the drawing-ro,
be- at dinner-time, old Lady Scarlet, W
hey used to give me half-crowns, and /
err Frank not to thrash me, twenty we;
ON ago, told me that she was very glad
ko, see me, and that she wanted to have
to little quiet talk with me in the morni
cry and show me the new kitchen garden.
the am not a great hand at kitchen gard,
all ing, and 1 never knew any one yet
promise you quiet little talk uni
,,a There was something unpleasant to saw