The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-22

spring crossing westward, with few
passengers. Huntington had been win
tering with his yacht on the Mediter-
ranean, and had sent his boat over
ahead of him, while he stopped in
London to replenish his wardrobe and
take in a few shows. He had expect
ed to lessen the tedium of the voyage
in the Mystic by sticking to cards in
the smoking-room. Instead of that
the trip seemed all too short after he
had met Patience Meredith.
Nothing could be more incongruous
than this young woman and her name,
She was never in repose, she talked
rather loud, said whatever came into
her head, and firted desperately with
every officer on board until she met
Huntington. Him she simply appro-
priated as soon as she heard that he
was a millionaire and yacht owner
1T must be heavenly to be so rich
that money has no meaning to you,
she said to him on the second day OF
their acquaintance Never to have to
stop and think before you do any
thing, whether you can afford it! l
went to Germany because l couldn't
afford to stay at home. You know,
live with Aunt Louisa, who had to
take the baths. / haven't a cent eX-
cont what che gives me "
1t was this frankness that charmed
Huntington. And she was so pretty.
She looked like her name.
The third day she found fly in the
ointment.
"Only think" she told him as they
stood leaning over the rail together
watching for porpoises, they say that
am after your money! l don't mind
for myself, but it must be dreadful for
YOU. always to feel that every time
ANYBODY seems to like you, somebody
else will put that construction on it
) That's where poverty scores one over
wealth. Now, when any one likes me
| know there's nothing back of 1t.
Was it always so with you? Ever
when you were a boy?'
She turned her big brown eyes full
en- him, and there was actually pity IL
their liquid depths.
In vain Huntington's friends triec
to argue him out of his infatuation.
you know absolutely nothing abou
her, old man." his chum Vance re
minded him.
THAT is the charm of it, my boy,
, was the reply. Each day is a fresl
revelation
= "She is after your money" addec
= Riggs.
80 are they all, is seems" sighe'
the young millionaire. "The troubl
- is, | didn't like the others. | do lik
-, this one, so do let me go my way
a He might have gone so far that h
=, would have been engaged to the gil
before they sighted Highland Ligt
, ii storm had not come up which ser
her to her cabin for the last two day
, of the voyage. But this enforced sci
. aration only whetted Huntington's d
=, sire for further acquaintance. b
-, tween quarantine and the pier he ha
- invited her and Aunt Louisa for sa
- in his yacht up the Hudson on IL
ls following Saturday.
or He punished his officious friends
- leaving them all out of the party.
90 their place he invited old Colon
NJ. Hecker, who had been in the civil wa
ho and whom he mentally assigned
H. gossip with Aunt Louisa while he d
voted himself to Patience.
49, The day was all that loves your
dream could have desired. The /
nd batross, through dint of working owe
.,+ time for all hands, was made spi
no and span by ten o'clock, and the 81
mr. into what Huntington denominated
nd himself as Paradise began.
If And surely Patience Meredith h
air never enjoyed herself as she did tn
morning. Her eyes sparkled like d
mo monds, her laugh sounded truly
GO very, and once, when she press
a. HuRtingtons hand to call his attenti
n to a rowboat that seemed to be .;
,is preaching too close, an electric TIN
shot from the contact straight to
q heart. There is no knowing what
,ae might have said had not the stewa
of appeared at that moment with the
INST nouncement of luncheon.
red Orders were given to turn arou
en-, while they were at table, and cot
Ills was being served on deck when Colo
by Hecker suddenly exclaimed: There
West Point! All me, what memories
in the past does it not awaken?
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