Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-12-24
CHAPTER I.

NH. GR.fNlAlL IORh1 SEEhS Adv fhNi Ohh'
n HR. GRENFALL LoRRY board.
|" ed the eastbound express at
Denver with all the air OF
. martyr He had Travelled
pretty much all over the world, and he
was not without resources, but the
prospect of $500 mile journey alone
filled him with dismay. The country
he knew; the scenery had long since
lost its attractions for him. And so II
was that he gloomily motioned the
porter to his boxes and mounted the
steps with WEAKNESS.
As 1t happened, Mr.. Grenfall Lorry
did not have a dull moment after the
train started. He stumbled on figure
that leaned toward the window In the
dark passageway. With reluctant civil
fly he apologlzed. A lady stood up to let
him pass, and for an instant In the half
light their eyes met, and that Is why
the miles rushed by with incredible
speed.
Mr.. Lorry had been dawdling away
the months In Mexico and California.
For years he had felt, together with
many other people, that a sea voyage
was the essential beginning OF every
Journey. He had started round the
world soon after leaving Cambridge;
he had fi.hed through Norway and
hunted in India, and shot everything
from grouse on the Scottish moors TO
the rapids above Assouan. lie had
run In and out Of countless towns and
countries on the coast Of South Amer
lea. He had done Russia and the
Rhone valley and Brittany and Damas-
Gus. He had seen them all, but not
until then did itjoccur TO him that there
might be something OF interest nearer
home. True, he had thought of joining
some Engllshmen on hunting tour In
the Rockies, but that had fallen
through. When the idea OF Mexico
did occur to him, he gave orders TO
pack his things, purchased intermlna-
BILE green tickets, dlned unusually well
at his club and was of In no time TO
the unknown west.
There was theory In his family
that II would have been a decenter
thing for him TO stop running about
and settle down TO work. But his
thoughtful father had given him
wealthy mother, and as earning llv-
ing was not necessity he failed TO
see why II was a duty. "Work is be-
coming to some men," he once declared,
''llke whIskers or red ties, but II does
not follow that all men can stand It,"
After that the family found him "hope-
less" and the argument dropped.
He was Just under thirty years, as
good looking as most men, with no one
dependent upon him and an income
that had withstood both the Maison
Doree and a dahabeah on the Nile.
lie never tired OF seeing things and
peoples and places. "There's game TO
be found anywhere" he said, "only It's
, sometimes out of season. If ! had my
way = and millions Il should run
newspaper, Then all the excltements
would comb to me. As II is, I'm poor,
and 80 l have TO go all over the world
after them"
This agreeable theory Of life had
worked well. He was little bored at
times, not because he had seen too
much, but because there were not more
things left to see. He had managed
somehow TO keep his enthusiasms
through everything, and they made
life worth living. He felt, too, a GER
tain elatlon, like a spirited horse, at
turning toward home, but Washington
had not much TO offer him. and the
thrill did not last His big bag and
his hatbox, pasted over with foolish
labels from continental hotels, were
piled In the corner Of his compartment,
and he settled back In his seat with
pleasurable sense OF expectancy, The
presence In the next room Of n very
smart appearing young woman was
prominent In his consciousness, II gave
him an uneaslness which was the be-
ginning Of delight, lie had seen her
for only second In the passageway
but that second had made him hold
himself little stralghter. "Why is
It." he wondered, that some girls
make you stand like footmnn the mo-
ment you see themY Grenfall had
been in love too many times TO think OF
marriage. His habit OF mind was stll
general, and he classified women broad.
ly. At the same time he had II feeling
that in this case generalitles did not
apply well. There was something about
the girl that made him hesitate ut Ia.
beling her "Class A or Is or a." What
II was he did not know, but unaccount.
ably she tllled him with an affected
formality. lie felt like bowling to her
with IA grand air and much dignity.
And yet he realized that his successes
had come from confidence.
At luncheon he saw her In the din
Ing car. Her companions were elderly
persons, presumably her parents. They
talked mostly In French occasionally
using German word or phrase. The
old gentleman was stately and austere,
with an air OF Difference 10 the young
woman which Grenfall did not under
stand. His appearance was very strik.
ing, his face pale aud heavily lined
mnstache and imperial gray, the eye
brows large and bushy and the jaw
and chin square aud firm. The white
haired lady carried her head high with
unmlstakable gentllity They were all
dressed in travelling suits which sug.
gested something foreign. but not Wen