Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-02-18
DISCOVERS /
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/ E'edI CITY looinrN mbllStrnnS. melin
iainous In purple shadow against such
Il blue sky as l;aiy rGi Sew iui.
, know.
a crowd WIS rlaSs"d IN Ike dock to
WELDON" the Marrtnn.a :ud her pas
! ScngCrS. and tor The first ilrlp Suce
he had left England Val felt vague
| homcsi"knySS stirring in his breast.
Almost every one else on board seemed
to have III least one hnndlrr, hirf way
ing friend. and some had half II dozen.
but all the smiling. eager faces hooking
up were strange 10 his eyes There
! was no one for hA:. and he had
= sudden. queer sensation of not bcin"
at home in The world ibis IL spite
OF Invitations from everybody he had
| Ilet on The shiI,-rXrcpt ont--the one
who maticrpd
Mr. Coolidge and several other IA
theirs aud unc.eS OF pretty girls had ask
but he bad taken Jim Uarboruughs
advice TO heart and cXcEstd himsolf
warily. His idea WAS to let New York
society pass before his eyes in review
before risking Il premature entangle
ment. To this course he committed
himself In cold blood. Since he could
not have Lesley Dearmer. all that mat
tered to him in girl was decent
manners. decent looks ttnd-many mil
| lions
| n cd n lip, fp
well for the night before, but Lesley
thwartcd him by talking the whole
evening long with n sporting youth
whom Val wrathfUlly stigmati2cd in
his mind as suffering from motor BIZ
cycle face. bridge eye. clutch knee and
tennis elbow. Then when she had tired
OF her Irritation she went to bed.
Next morning it was only as the
Mauretania neared her slip that the
Girl appeared again, without seeming
to notice Loveland she stood leaning
| her elbows on the rail not far from
him. 1t occurred to Val that after all
| II was matter of no Importance to
| her that their lives We're to be lived
apart Aud the separation was at
| hand. He had thought of this hour.
but now it was here. lie was going
| to love her Tomorrow and all the
| tomorrows he would have no sweet,
merry. mysterious eyed friend to adj
wise him and listen, half amused. half
In earnest. to his condolences.
| Suddenly his heart fell like large
cold boiled beet root in his breast. He
went and stood behind the girl, dumb
with II strange new misery he could
rot understand. and. as though she
h&d hear the "unerring speech" of his
silence. she turned
At first her beautiful brown leycs
dashed Il laughing challenge at him as
| If they said: Wouldn't you like to
make ne think you really care? But |
don't think it and won't And neither
Go you care We've both been play
| Ing"
| Then something in bis look softened
| hers She smiled kindly. though not
wholly without guile.
Aren't you cxcitedF' she asked.
why should be eScited;" be
grumb!pd.
because well. you're a soldier and
know what war Is like I've heard
that the most exciting thing which can
happen is call to make a sortie in
the middle Of he night. in the midst
of n dream and on an empty stomach.
Eut | should think the call to u matri-
monial sortie"-
"On an empty purseT
Yes. when IT'S Il question Of selling
yourself to I'll it,"
Il don't mean to sell myself. shah
still belong to myself and to one other.
| wont say who That otter Is. for I've
pretty well told you already"
ITS no use pretending not to under
stand. ! know what you want me to
think you mean"
IF | never knew before how much
do mean it know it now. when I've
got to say goodby.
Look here. Lesley-do look at me.
I'm awfuily cut up ut leaving YOU"
You're not TO call me Lesley"
You can't prevent my calling you
Lesley to myself"
you'll soon forget the name"
"Never. can never forget yQu-
worse luck. The thought of you is go
ing TO cone Between me aud other
things
THE thought must learn better man.
ncrs-not 10 butt in rs we say over
here. Oh. it will soon be tanned You'll
have so much to 10
Il hope | shall" Said I.oveland 81
say. are you going TO forget me as
soon Ms we're parted"
The girl was silent for moment.
Then she laughed i shall rake u
noic Of yon for my ErSt story but
o3c." she answered
~ cure Lct vrlr Ri H."
re yen sure you deserve kind.
ness
I'm sure want from you"
You have always got what you
wan;cd in your He, haven't you, one
way or arofher;"
Life wouldn't be worth living II one