Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-04-13
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CHAPTER MI.
THE LOGIC OF YOUTH.

~ say, but It sounds different on
your lips. It sounds as though
you meant 1t yourself and that you
meant 1t because OF me. Well. | am
going to bed. Let me be your partner
and yOu'll see me rattle the dry bones
OF the SolomOns. Confess, I've ratified
yours already"
Il should say So" he answered.
REALLY. you know, you have. | never
received such a dressing down in my
life. II amy one had ever told me
that I'd be n party even TO the present
situation Yes, confess you have
ratified my dry bones pretty consider.
Dbly."
But that is nothing to the rafting
they are going TO get" she assured him
us he rose and took her hand. Good
night And do. do give me rational
decision In the morning"
II wish knew whether you are
merely headstrong or whether you
really intend to be Solomon planter"
Sheldon said in the morning ut break
fast
II wish you were more adaptable"
Joan retorted. you have more pre-
conceived notions than any man I ever
met Why In the name Of common
sense. In the name of-fair play. can't
you get It into your head that am
different from the women you have
known ana treat me accordingly? You
surely ought to know I am different.
] sailed my own schooner here-skip-
per. II you please. came here to
make my living. You know that: I've
told you often enough. 1t was dada
plan, and I'm carrying II out. Just as
You are trying TO carry out your
Hughes plan. Dad started TO sail and
sail until he could find the proper
islands for planting. He died. and I
sailed and sailed until arrived here
Well" she shrugged her shoulders,
"thc schooner is at the bottom of the
sea: can't sail any farther: therefore
remain here. And planter I shall
certainly be. Do You want me for
partner?"
"But do you realize that would be
ioON'h wv nbSA i'vilSu Jazz
anapes In the south seas II took o
young girl like you In with me hero
on Rernnde2" he asked.
"No; decidedly not But there you
are again, worrying about what Idiots
and the generally evil minded will
think OF you. | should have thought
you had learned self reliance on Be-
rande. instead of needing TO lean upon
the moral support OF every whisky
guzZling. worthless south sea yaga.
bond"
He smiled and said:
"Yes, that Is the worst OF II. You
are unanswerablc. Yours Is the logic
OF youth. and no man can answer that.
The facts of life have no place In the
logic Of youth. Youth must try to live
according to its logic. The facts always
smash youths logic, and they usually
smash youths heart, too. It's like
platonic friendships and and all such
things; they are all right in theory, but
ihcy won't work in practice.
Suppose we do become partners on
Berande." he said, "either I'll fall in
love with you or you with me. Pro-
pinqulty is dangerous, you know. In
fact, 1t is propinquity that usually
gives the facer to the logic Of youth"
III you think | came to the Solo
mons to get married." she began
wrathfully. ''Well, there are better
men In Ha wall. that's ala Really, you
know. the way you harp on that one
string would lead an unprejudiced
listener to conclude that you are pru-
rient minded"- ......
She stopped. appalled,. His face had
gone red and white with such abrupt
ness us 10 startie her. He was pa
tently very angry. She slipped the
last Of her coffee. and arose, saying:
"Tll wait until you are in a better
temper before taking up the discussion
again. That is what's the matter with
you. You get angry too easily. viii
you come swimming? The tide Is just
right" ..-.
IF she were man, I'd bundle her
of the plantation, root and crop,
whaleboat. Tahitian sailors, sover-
eiGns. and ALL" he said to himself
after she had left the room.
But that was the trouble. She was
not man, and where would she go,
and what would happen to her?
lie got to his fleet, lighted ciga-
rette. and her Stetson hat, hanging on
the wall over her revolver belt. caught
his eye. That was the devil OF 1t. too.
He did not want her to go. After all.
she had not grown up yet. Never
again would he lose his temper with
her She was child; he must re-
member that. He sighed heavily, But
why In rcasonablcness had such a
child been incorporated in such wom'
ans form?
Her trilling laughter smote upon his
revcrie and he stepped to the screen
door. through which he could see her
running down the path to the beach
At her heels ran two OF her sailors
Papehara and Mnhameme, In scarlet
laVa-avas, with naked sheath knives