The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-08-22
AROUND THE GLOBE FOR 1. HlFEs

BlODe UrOtter. tte nhu NO iuth thnt
he 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 for
wives, and all women from similar
period of their lives are hunting for
husbands.
AS was saying, lie Roy Reming-
ton 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 return of the freedom
of bachelorhood, but he would not
have been bored.
One day Remington was crossing
"the plains" of America somewhere
between Omaha and San Francisco
when the train stopped. The wealth
er was warm and the windows were
open. A train from the opposite dI-
rection came rolling along with d.
minishing speed. It brought the girl
Remington was looking for and
stopped with her directly beside his
window. Her window, too, was rails
ed, and the two sat face to face with
in a few feet of each other. Rem
ington looked at the girl and the girl
looked at Remington. He made the
most OF the brief time allotted him.
The girl lowered her eyes. Thon
there was a toot-toot ahead and Rem
ingtons train moved onward.
Remington was looking for this
very girl, but he didn't know II Till
he was on the Pacific ocean midway
between San Francisco and Hong
kong.
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 a railway
train some twenty miles west OF
Paris, while stopping at station, a
train pulled past, and at window
in this train was the girl he had dis
covered he wanted.
It took Remington just thirty sec
onds TO gather up his belongings and
leave the train. During this brief in
terval 1t had occurred to him that
the girl might be going around the
world and he had better proceed
westward in the hope OF meeting her
once more and at standstill But
he dismissed the idea as ridiculous,
The train that had passed wast
bound for Paris, and Remington tooh
the next one for the same place. His
trunk went on to London. But he
cared nothing for that. He could
buy trunks and their contents, but
he couldn't buy the girl who was
going to Paris, though he could buy
any one Of dozens OF other girls. She
was surely going to Paris. All AM
orleans who are approaching Paris
are going there. And ten to one she
would stay awhile there. So REM
ington returned to Paris and when
he got there hunted through the
registers of the hotels where Ameri-
cans were accustomed to stay. At
the Hotel Meurice he found the
names "Mr. and Mrs. Edgar ID. Ay-
cry, San Francisco, Cal, U. s. A.,
and Miss Edith Avery" The clerk
or.ti.t1 "a
time that corresponded with the ar
rival of the train on which he had
seen the girl he was hunting.
While he was raclxing his brains
how to secure an Introduction he
chanced to meet his intimate friend
Philpot. He asked Philpot to dine
with him the same evening, intend
ing to talk the matter over with him.
No; Philpot's friends, the Averys OF
San Francisco, had just arrived and
he was engaged to drive with them.
What luck! Would Philpot Introduce
him? Certainly He would mako
an engagement TO take him to call.
They parted, and the next morning
Philpot told Remington that he had
made the engagement for five days
ahead, the first evening the Averys
were disengaged, Remington passed
five weary, waiting days and on the
afternoon OF the fifth received note
from Phllpot to say that the Averys
had left Paris Unexpectedly the day
before.
Remington was crushed. He found
Philpot, only TO learn that the Av-
erys had gone eastward TO Hong
kong to sail for San Francisco Inn
mediately on arrival at that port.
Remington inquired the date OF sail
ing Of the steamer they would likely
take and found he would. not have
time to reach It himself. He could
go westward and reach San Fran
cisco earlier than the party going
eastward.
He left Paris that night for South
Hampton, caught an outgoing steam
er and reached New York in six days.
In two weeks from his leaving
France he. was in San Franclsco
waiting the arrival of the girl no
was chasing. Whenever a steamer