Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-06-20
CHAPTER !.
MR.. GRENFALL LoRRY SEEKS AID
VENTURE.

bound express at Denver with all the
air Of a martyr. He had travelled pref.
ty much all over the world, and he was
not without resources, but the prospect
OF a 2,500.mile journey alone filled him
with dismay. The country he knew;
the scenery had long since lost its at
fractions for him. And SO 1t was that
he gloomily motiUned 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 CT
Witty he apologized. 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 in
credible 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 fished through Norway and
hunted In India, and shot everything
from grouse on the Scottish moors to
the rapids above Assouan. He 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 II occur to him that there
might be something OF interest nearer
home. True, he had thought of joining
some Englishmen on a hunting tour
Ia the Rockies, but that had fallen
through. When the idea OF Mexico
did occur to him, he gave orders to
pack his things, purchased intermina-
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 1t would have been a decenter
thing for him to stop running about
and settle down to work. But his
thoughtful father had given him a
wealthy mother. and as earning liv-
ing was not necessity he failed to see
why It was duty. work is becoming
to some men," he~once declared, 'like
Nhiskers or red ties, bub II does not
follow that all men can stand it," After
that the family found him hopeless,
apI tho argup,n,t I,,nnnl
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 Maisor
poree and a dahabeah on the Nile,
He never tired of seeing things ant
peoples and places. There's game tC
be found anywhere" he said, only til
sometimes out of season. II had m!
way-and Millions should run {
newspaper. Then all the excitementi
would come to me. As II Is. I'm poor
and so have to go all over the worl,
after them"
This agreeable theory OF life ha,
worked well. He was little bored a
times. not because he had seen to-
much. but because there were not NOR
things life to see. He had manage
somehow to keep his enthusiasm
through everything. aud they mad
life worth living. He felt. too. Gel
tain citation, like spirited horse, q
turning toward home. but Washingto
had not much to offer him, and tn
thrill did not last. His big bag an
his hatbox. pasted over with FOOLS
labels from continental hotels, wei
piled In the corner OF his compartment
and he settled back in his seat with
pieasurable sense Of expectancy. I'll
presence In the next room of a vel
smart appearing young woman WI
prominent in his consciousness. It ga,
him an uneasiness which was the b
ginning of delight. He had seen h,
Tor only second In the passagewa
but that second had made him no
himself little straighter. why
H." he wondered. that some cir
make you stand like footman the m
ment you see them?" Grenfall HI
been In love too many times to thil
OF marriage. His habit of mind W
still general, and he classified WON
broadly. At the same time he had
feeling that In this case generaliti
did not apply well. There was son
thing about the girl that made him h
itate at labelling her "Class A or b
T." What 1t was he did not know, 1
unaccountably she filled him with
affected formality. He felt like be
Ing to her with a grand air and mu
dignity. And yet he realized that
successes had come from confidence
At luncheon he saw her In the d
ing car. Her companions were eide
persons, presumably her parents. I'll
talked mostly IN French. occaslona
using a German word or phrase. 7
old gentleman was stately and austs
with an air OF Difference to the you
woman which Grenfall did not unt
stand. His appearance was very ST
Ing hia face nala and heavily lir