The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-17
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in New York Some one introduced
the subject of matrimony in order to
start Cutler Hartsough Cabling. for
being a woman hater, and. possessing it
vein Of dry humor, he invariably wax
ed entertaining on marriage, lie was
especially caustic on this occasion and
kept the party in roar Of laughter.
The next topic was as to the time
required to make journey around the
globe This occasioned an animated
discussion which led to a bet between
! Hartsough and Foster Conant of a
box at the opera for the coming season
| that Hartsough would make the trip in
sixty-eight days.
HartS0ugh left the next day at noon
and. meeting with no delays. arrived at
San Francisco with time to spare TO
reach New York before the close of
! the siXty-eighth day, which ended at
| l. o'clock noon. SO lie concluded TO
! have a good nights sleep at a hotel.
| After dinner he was sitting i'll the
reading room, smoking cigar, when a
| man approached him and asked if he
was Mr.. Hartsough. He replied that
| be was, wBereupon he was Informed
| that his exploit was the talk of the
| clubs of New York, and a New York
| paper had directed the man to inter-
view him. Hartsough, much pleased,
| gave the desired interview, with infor-
| nation as to when he would reach diff
| ferent points on his journey eastward.
| Then the man departed, and Hartsough
| went to bed.
When the traveller reached Chicago,
he had two days in which to make the
| distance to New York. He left Chica
| 90 on Thursday morning and was
| not due at his club till Saturday noon.
| The time between Chicago and New
! York is twenty hours In the parlOr
| ear sat a young lady dressed in fash
ionable travelling costume She sent
| the porter to him to ask if he was Mr.
| HartsOugh OF New York. Upon his re-
| ply that he was she sent him her card,
Miss Ethelwyn Wheawill."
/ HdrtsCugh joined her, raised his hat
| deferentally and waited for an eXpla-
| nation. The girls face broke into Ge-
| liciOus flush as she said:
My aunt, Mrs. Clinton, telegraphed
me that you would be on this train.
knowing that | dread travelling alone,
she suggested that you might consent
to take me under your charge"
Mrs. Alexander Clinton Of - Madi-
son avenue|
| "Yes."
Il know her very we'll She has
| placed me under an obligation in Civ
ing me so charming a travelling com
pauion. But how did she know was
| to be on this train"
why, your trip is the talk of all our
set. Besides. | was told there was
something about it in the newspapers"
Then Hartsough remembered the
| man who had interviewed him.
| Miss Wheawill knew Of his bet, and
| Hartsough CALAMITY told her that in
case he won it he would beg the honor
of her acceptance of the box for the
season. This offer occasioned sud
den cessation of that liveliness with
which she was attracting him. How
ever, this passed off, and the twenty
hours of the journey seemed to Hart
sough but so many minutes. Mrs. Al
exander Clinton met them at the Grand
| Central station with her carriage and
| insisted on Hartsough driving home
with them to dinner, an invitation he
was only too glad to accept. After
dinner he was left with Miss Wheawill,
and at IL o'clock he requested the but
Ter to call carriage. Mrs. Clinton in
sisted on his remaining in the house
for the night. This he declined at first,
but as the lady seemed to have set her
heart upon it he finally consented,
pleased to remember that he would
meet Miss Wheawill at breakfast.
He had no sooner entered his room
than he heard the sound of key turn
ed from the outside. Trying the door,
he found it locked.
''Trickedw he cried, starting.
Meanwhile a party of men at the
club, who had had an intimatiOn from
one of their number that something
was in the wind, had met eager for
news. AS the clock struck II Tom
Bond entered and reported that Hart
sough was under lock and key. A
couple OF baskets of champagne cele-
brated the event
1t was 10 o'clock the next morning
when Hartsough heard tap at his
prison door.
ITS l, Mr.. Hartsough."
"Miss Wheawill?"
"Yes. / am very much ashamed of
the part / have taken, though it was