Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-10-17
CHAPTER II-CONTINUED
(From Last Saturday,

to GUST them by big land company.
The company has since asked me to
sell the property and offered me
fair price, too, as the ctltivablo land
Is n very small strip, but It would he
almost like betraying the cause for
which he fought. would 1t not?"
Eyes, indeed" agreed the doctor,
though his heart and not his head die.
tatcd the reply. May | ask you to
tell me your plans for the futurc?" he
went on.
"wcll. when Mr.. Barring heard was
going to England he was good enough
to promise me employment y his Lon.
don agency ms Spanish correspondent.
That viii I'LL In two days Il week The
rest can devote to art. ! paint
little and draw with sufficient prom
Use to warrant study, | am told. Any.
how, l am weary Of teaching. l pre-
fer TO I've pupil"
II cannot imagine what the young
men of Valparaiso were thinking Of TO
allow a girl like you to slip off in
this fashion," said Christobal, with Il
smile.
"NIost of them hold firmly to the be-
lief that wifc's wedding dress should
he made Of gilt edged scrip"
Poor materinl-very poor material
out of which to construct welded hap.
piness. And rs to my young friend,
IsObel-she joins her aunt in London,
| hearT'
"That is the present arrangement.
She means 10 have good time, cspc.
clally in Paris. l should like to live
in Paris myself. Dear old smoke laden
LONDON does not appeal so thoroughly
TO the artist. Yet l am content--yes,
quite content"
"Then YOU have gained the best
thing in the worldr' cried the doctor,
throwing out his arms cXpansively.
The two became good friends us the
voyage progressed. Christobal was
exceedingly well informed and delight.
ed in n thoughtful listener like Elsie.
Isobol, firing Mt times of the count,
would join in their conversation and
display spasmodic interest in the
topics they discussed. There We're
only six other passengcrs-a Baptist
missionary and his wife, three mining
engineers and an English globe trot-
ter, n singular being who appeared TO
have roamed the entire earth, but
whose experiences were summed up in
one of two words--every place he had
seen was either "fair"NDr 'rotten."
Even Isobel failed TO draw him fur
ther, and she said one day in temper,
after spirited attempt to extract
man reminds me of one OF those dunn
my books you see occasion ally. bound
In calf and labeled Gaze tteer Of the
World When you try TO open vol
ume you find that 1t is made OF
wood"
So they nicknamed him "Mr. Wood"
and Elsie once inadvertently addressed
him by the name.
"What do you think Of the weather,
Mr.. Wood" she asked him at break
fast.
He CHANGED to notice that she was
speaking to him.
Rotten" he said.
W ny -hioo .h"N
well flushed and the others laughed.
But in actual fact he was not far
wrong In his curious choice of an ad-
jective that morning; DR.. Christobals
dismal forebodlng had been justified
on the second day out. Leaden clouds,
sullen sea and occasional puffs of a
singing breeze from the southwest
offaraI n SORRY a,.chon1a for tho SUNNI
skies of Chile.
Though the Kansas was not n fast
ship, she could have made the entrance
to the strait of Magellan on the even
Ing of the fourth day had not Cap
tain Courtenay wished TO navigate
the most dangerous part of the mar
rows by daylight. His intent, there
fore, was to pick up the Evangellstas
light about midnight and then crack
ahead at fourteen knots, so as to be of
Felix point, on Dissolution island, by
dawn.
This was not only prudent and sea
manlike course, but II would conduct
to the comfort of the passengers, The
ship was now running into stiff gale
Lacu nour Tue SEA DtCu1Ile HeuNlcT, ant
even the 5000 tons of the Kansas fel
the impact of the giant rollers on hel
=. starboard bow, Dinner therefore prom
ised TO be meal of much discomfort
cheered only by the knowledge tina
as soon rs the vessel reached the lea
of Desolation island the giant waves
of the Pacific would lose their powe
and all ON board would enjoy a quie
nights rest.
There were no absentees ut the table
DIR. Christobal stroveA to enliyen TN
others with the promise of peace err
many hours had passed
"Pay no heed to those fellows" h
cried as the ship quiyered under tn
blow of a heavy sea, and they hear
the thud Of many tons of water break
ing over the bows and fore hatcf
while the defeated monster washe
the tightly screwed port with ven
omous swish. "They cannot harm u
now. Let us rather thank kindly Prov
idence, which provided Magellans wa
terway.. Think Whit 1t would me2'