Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-05-14
CHAPTER !.
MR.. GRrvrALL LoRRY SEEKS ADVENTURE.

martyr. lie n0U traNelPu
pretty much all over the world, and he
WINS not without resources. but the
prospect of II 100 mile journey alone
filled him with dismay. The country
lie knew; the scenery had long since
lost its attractions for him. And SO it
was that he gloomily motiOncd the
porter to his boxes and mounted the
steps with WEAKNESS.
AS it happened, Mr. Grcnfall Lorry
did not have dull moment after the
train started. He stumbled on "A figure
that leaned toward The window in the
dark passaccway. With reluctant civil
lty he apololized. a lady stood up to lot
him pass, and for an instant in the half
light thcir 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 sea voyage
was the essential beginning Of every
tourney. He had started round the
world soon after leaving Cambridge;
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
ica. He had done Russia and the
Rhone valley and Brittany and Damas-
Gus. He had seen them all, but not
until then did it occur to him that there
might be something of interest nearer
home. True, he had thought of joining
some Englishmen on a hunting tour In
The Rockies, hut that had fallen
through. When the idea of Mexico
Hi6 occur to him, he gave orders to
pack his things, purchased intermna-
BILE green tickets, dined unusually well
at his club and was off in no time to
the unknown west.
There was a theory in his family
that it would have been decenter
thing for him to stop running about
and settle down to work. But his
thoughtful father had given him Il
wealthy mother, and as earning liv-
ing was not necessity he failed to
see why 1t was a duty. "Work is be-
coming to some men, he once declared
like WHISPERS or red ties. but it 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 a most men, with no one
dependent upon him and an income
that had withStood both the Maison
Doree and a dahabeah on the Nile.
ale never tired of seeing things and
peoples and places "Thero's game TO
be found anywhere" he said. "only it's
sometimes out of season. If had my
way and millions i Should run a
newspaper. Then all the eXcitements
would come to me. AS it ia, I'm poor
and so l have to so all over the world
after them"
This agreeable theory of life bad
worked well. He was a little bored at
times, not because lie had seen too
much, but because there were not more
things left TO see. lie had managed
somehow to keep his enthusiasts
Through everything. and they made
life worth living. He felt too, GER
tain elation, like a spirited horse, at
turning toward home, but Washington
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AZ A. n,a same limo he haI - fooJina
that i'll this case generalitics did not
apply well. There was something about
the girl that made him hesitate ut la
being her Glass a or or H." What
1t was he did not know but unaccouut-
ably she filled him with an affected
formality. He felt like bowling to her