The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1908-07-29
AROUND the GLOBE
FOR A WIFE.

was going to and fro on the earth
hunting for something, but he was
All men from the time they are old
enough to marry are hunting fer
wives, and all women from a similar
period of their lives are hunting for
husbands. Tell most of them this, and
they will either laugh or get angry at
you. Nevertheless the statement Is
true, Nature often fools us, but she
never relaxes the enforcement Of her
laws.
AS was saying, LIE Roy Remington
was crossing continents and oceans,
as he thought, to get rid Of being
bored. Had he been obliged to work
for living he would not have been
bored so much. Had he been married
he would not have been bored at all. |
He might have suffered under many |
irritations and annoyances, he might
even have wished for a return Of the |
freedom of bachelorhood. but he would
not have been bored. Boredom does
not usually belong to the married
state.
One day Remington was crossing
'the plains" Of America somewhere
between Omaha and San Francisco
when the train stopped. The weather
was warm. and the windows were
open. A train from the opposite direc-
ton came rolling along with diminish
ing speed. 1t brought the girl Remlng-
ton was looking for and stopped with
her directly beside his window. Her
window, too, was raised, and the two
sat face to face within a few feet of
girl, and the girl looked at Reming-
ton He made the most Of the brief
time allotted him. The girl lowered
her eyes. Then there was toot-toot
ahead, and Remington's train moved
onward.
Remington was looking for this very
girl but he didn't know 1t till he was
on the Pacific ocean midway between
San Francisco and Hongkong.
BY the time he stood again on dry
land he had made up his mind that he
must find the girl on the other side of
the globe.
He went to Paris and from Paris
started for London. On q railway train
some twenty miles west Of Paris, while
stopping at a station. q train pulled
past, and at window In this train
was the girl he had discovered he
wanted.
1t took Remington just thirty sec
, onds to gather up his belongings and
leave the train. During this brief ia
: terval it had occurred to him that the
girl might be going around the world
and he had better proceed westward
E in the hope Of meeting her once more
and at a standstill. But he dismissed
5 the idea as ridiculous.
A The train that had passed was bound
E for Paris, and Remington took the next
one for the same place. His trunk
went on to London. But he cared moth
t ing for that. He could buy trunks and
their contents, but he couldn't buy the
girl who was going to Paris, though he
S could buy any one Of dozens Of othes
t girls. She was surely going to Paris
q All Americans who are approaching
e Paris are going there. And ten to one
she would stay awhile there. So Rem
q ington returned to Paris and when be
e got there hunted through the registers
Of the hotels where Americans were
= accustomed to stay. At the Hote
r Meurice he found the names 'Mr
D and Mrs. Edgar D. Avery, San Fran
cisco, Cal, r. 8. A., and Miss Edit
Avery" The clerk told him that the.
! had arrived at time that correspondet
with the arrival Of the train on which
N he had seen the girl he was hunting.
While he was racking his brains hov
h to secure an introduction he chance,
"a to meet his intimate friend Philpot
~ He asked Philpot to dine with him tn
1e same evening, intending to talk tn
20 matter over with him. No; Philpot'
n friends, the Averys of San Francisco
r. had just arrived and he was engage
II. to drive with them. What luck
"A Would Philpot introduce him? Ce'
u. tainly! He would make an engage
n. ment to take him to call. They partcd
e. and the next morning Philpot tol
10 Remington that he had made the eI
re gagement for five days ahead, the fir
ut evening the Averys were disengaget
Remington passed five weary. waitin
ID days and on the afternoon Of the fit
O. received note from Philpot to sa
r. that the Averys had left Paris une.
to pectedly the day before.
tn Remington was crushed. He foun
TO- Philpot, only to learn that the Avery
an had gone eastward to Hongkong
to- sail for San Francisco Immediately Q
arrival at that port. Remington Il
ed Quired the date Of sailing Of the steam
e, er they would likely take and foun
an he would not have time to reach
zee himself. He could go westward an
or reach San Francisco earlier than ii
w. party going eastward.
ng He left Paris that night for Sout
Is ampton, caught an outgoing steam'
les and reached New York in six day
M In two weeks from his leaving Fran.
he was in San Francisco waiting tt
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