The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-02-24
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20 Roy Remipgto vas q Young
globe strott er. ne had no idea th pay
The was going to and sfto on the earth II
hunting for something, but he was.
An men from the time they are old
enough Ito marry are hunting Gol
wives, and all women from Ia similar
period of their lives are hunting for
husbands. y 4 q "a
a As j was saying, LIE Roy Reming.
ton was crossing : continents and
oceans. as he thought, 10 get rid OF
being bored. Had he been obliged
to work for a 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
annoyanees, he might even have
wished for return OF the freedom
OF bachelorhood, but he would not
have been bored. 55
One day Remington was crossing
"the plains" Of America somewhere
between Omaha and San Francisco
when the train stopped. The wealth.
or was warm and the windows we're
open. A train from the opposite d.
rection came rolling along with d.
minishing speed. 1t 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 n few feet Of each other. REM
ington looked at the girl and the girl
looked ut Remington. He made the
most Of the brief time allotted him,
The girl lowered her eyes. Then
there was 4 toot-toot ahead and REM
ington'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 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 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.
II took Remington just thirty Sec
onds TO gather up his belongings and
leave the train. During this brief in
terval it had occurred 10 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 was
bound for Paris, and Remington took
the next one for the same place. His
trunk went OH 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-
Guns were accustomed to stay. At
the Hotel Mcurice he found the
names mir. and Mrs. Edgar D. Az
cry. San Francisco, Cal, U. S. A..
and Miss Edith Avery" The clerk
told him that they had arrived at a
time that correspondent with the ar
rival OF the train on which he had
seen the girl he was hunting. u; s
While he was racking his brains
how to secure an introduction he
CHANGED to meet his intimate friend
philpot. He asked Philpot to dine
with him the same evening, intend
ing 10 talk the matter over with him.
| No; Philpots friends. the Ayerys Of
San Francisco, had just arrived and
he was engaged to drive with them.
What luck, Would Philpot introduce
him? Certainly! He would make
an engagement to take him to cali.
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 dlsengaged. Remington passed
five weary, waiting days and on the
afternoon OF the fifth received note
from Philpot to say that the Averys
had left Paris Unexpectedly the day
before. ag
Remington was crushed. He found
philpot, only to learn that the Az
erys had gone eastward to Hong
kong TO sail for San Francisco i'm
mcdlately on arrival at that port.