The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-02-19
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Miss Ainsworth," he said, Il an
going away on long journey"
How splendid" she replied. IF
We're man ! should never be content
to settle down until had travelled all
over the world"
Il may be away for a year or two"
Dear me. how envy You 1t win
be SO fine to get away from this eli
mate. Which way are you going"
Il expect to go from here to San
Francisco. From there will probably
cross over 10 Japan.
Are you going on pleasure trip"
No the firm Is sending me on bust.
ness
| u can't imagine anything that
would rather do than go to Japan, and
| have always had longing to see
| California"
Ny plans are little indefinite con
corning the course | shall take after
get through in Japan, but it is prob
able that | shall come around through
India, stopping off at Calcutta and
Bombay"
'lfNl had such trip in prospect
should be SO happy that I-I-but
then ! suppose nothing of that kind
can ever come to poor little me-
From India the probabilities are
that | shall go to South Africa. stop
ping off at Cape Town. Then | shall
proceed northward, perhaps to Lis
bon"
Lisbon Oh, | never hear the name
of that place without a thrill 1t some
how always seems SO romantic to me.
| think that OF all the cities OF Europe
Lisbon is the one would prefer to
see
From Lisbon, according to the itin-
erary | have laid out for myself, /
shall go TO Madrid and from Madrid
TO Rome.
Wont that be glorious! / can't |
understand how you are able to talk |
about it SO calmly. | cant tell you |
how am longing to take such a trip |
as that II | were told that | might /
go if We're ready tomorrow, would
be ready"
After | leave Rome / may go
across to Constantinople, but shall
cut out that part OF it II | can, and
go straight to Paris
Yes. think | should do that, TOO.
i I had my way Somehow | never
'elt much interest in Constantinople
should prefer to put in my extra
ime in Paris or Berlin or London
Its probable that shall have to
pend some time in England perhaps
'iE months or more
Il can't think of anything that would
)e more agreeable TO me than that.
low | should like TO journey down
english lanes and loiter by those
hedges that | have SO often read
bout. And then London! Think of
Ictually being there and not having
0 wake up and find that it was only
dream" !
Yes, 1t would be pretty fine. I
ather enjoy travelling myself OF a
curse. shouldn't want to have to do :
all my life, but year or two of it a
III, | think, be a good thing for me- b
is likely to broaden my ideas" l.
That is just the way | feel about II. Il
nd then il would be so interesting to 81
ways have some one along -some in
lie who was near and dear-with bi
hom to talk about the wonderful be
gifts aud the strange customs and p'
that" al
Well, 1t would be rather fine to l}t
We it arranged that way. One is co
.ely to get pretty lonely if one is in III
strange land with no companion. no es
end. to talk to-" III
oh, that would be iutolerable II fu
'uld be about the worst kind of pun. an
ment that could be inflicted on one" no
- Don't discourage me that way. SIN,
is too late for me to get out Of ii ie,
IN If wanted TO now. Haven't you
er done much travelling" da
No. But you can't imagine how /
longing to start on just such Pr
rney as you have described. I'd
e almost anything-do almost any
ng-to have the chance" Al
! hope that something may han
some day TO make It possible for
to get away. Well. must be go.
| may not see you again before SP
art, so ! will say good by"
fter the door had been closed be.
him she sat down and folded her
DIS in her lap and looked far away. Civ
wonder" she said TO herself. AT md
what that fool meant by coming ind
telling me about his silly old a 81
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