Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-02-04

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Val said TO himself that the matel
would be pleased with Il daughter in
| law of this type aud that such Il girl
would never make her husband aShGm
| ed lie could not imagine falling in
| love with her hard briliancc But
| then he wasn't going To America to
! fall in love. His intentions were
! strictly buSinesSlike. AID this girl
was bound to be admired everywhere
Loveland's second choice might have
| been his first for some reasons. and i'll
fact she was his first by impulse. onl!
she did not look us obviously an heir
eSS as the other Neither was she 81
obviously beauty yet her charm
leaped ut the beholder with the brief
est glance, especially if that beholder
were man.
She was not very tall and she was II
slim slip of creature not in tho least
like a fashion plate, but suggestive of
soft natural curves even in her nav!
blue tailor made frock.
If she had been stagestruck and
had asked for Il chance in the chorus
theatrical manager would have
found himself giving it to her he
hardly knew why--more because She
said she wanted it than on the strength
of her voice or form or features
Then. having yielded so far 10 hen
magnetism. he would have said To
himself: she iSu'l striking enough for
the front row CT even The seconG STE
must go Into the third" And ther
she would have gone docilriy l"t
the critics and all other nItll With eyes
would have picked her ont and pres
emily she would have been more n,tic
ed than the beauties in the front row
BY and by when there artsr II lltlt
part with Il few lines to speak. She
would have got it. and ~ laSi. in SuEr
way or ether it would have been she
who was making the hit Of IA,
piece.
Lurd Lovcland did not say anything
Of This sort To himself. but ne felt a
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lime tncy passed and repasSrd "a, Ii
other. thoG%h after The lir,I She did
rot look at him with the big brown
eyes thai surely had the prettieSt,
most bcwitclin. IaShrS ever seen
Val made up his minl at last that
he would walk no more but would sit
down and think questions over Be
sides. for some moments the enchHnt
ing girl in the navy blue frock had
ceased to fit to and fro Therefore
he went toward the sheltered corner
where he knew his deck chair was
waiting for him and TO his extreme
surprise found her comfortably in
stalled in It,
| conceded than he had ever been in his
| life. which is saying not Il little. He
told himself that the girl must have
found ont who he was and that this
was hen artful way Of scraping ac
1uaintance She had taken possession
of his chair with his name upon it.
waiting for him TO come and claim his
property and expecting the converse
ton which would be sure to follow.
He was conscious of shock of dis
appointment. In spite of the witch.
ing. curled eyelashes he had not fan
ced her that sort of obvious flirting
girl. and. like other spoiled young
men. II conquest which fell 10 him east
y was less worth making. Neverthe-
icss he still wanted to know her,
The chair next to his was unoccu
pied, though usurpers were warned off
by the name of mir. James r.
Smythe" be,dly painted in black let
ters across the back. Stretching away
to the left was row Of Smythe chairs
which Val did not trouble to count.
He merely received the impression Of
large family of impending Smythes
aud was glad that they were not as
scmbled. ltisking the avalanche of
Smythehood which might overwhelm
him at any instant. he sat down in
the empty chair next to his own. eI
pecting the giIisto glance up and down
and flntter the coquettish lashcs. TIC
his bewilderment her tactics We're more
subtle She did not look up ut all, but
calmly went on reading her book. a
volume Of disagreeably intellectual
suggestions
This development OF the game was
interesting because surprising. but Val
still regarded ii
as Il game. He