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The girl was reading the note

Anthony Harding, Esq On Board Yacht Lotus, Honolulu My dear Mr Harding: This will introduce a very dear friend of mine, Count de Cadenet, who expects to be in Honolulu about the ti for pleasure, and as he is entirely unacquainted upon the islands any courtesies which you reatly appreciated

Cordially, L CORTWRITE DIVINE

The girl s the note

"Larry is always picking up titles and hed "I wonder where he found this one"

"Or where this one found hi "Well, I suppose that the least we can do is to have hi to we can do"

"Let's pick hi, "and take hi our debt to friendship, and dinner tonight can depend upon what sort of person we find the count to be"

"As you will," replied her father, and so it ca cars drew up before the Count de Cadenet's hotel half an hour later, and Anthony Harding, Esq, entered and sent up his card

The "count" calance that the entleman, and when he had introduced him to the other members of the party it was evident that they appraised hi see that he join those who occupied her car, and so it was that the second officer of the Halfmoon rode out of Honolulu in pleasant conversation with the object of his visit to the island

Barbara Harding found De Cadenet an interesting lobe however reree familiar He ell read, and possessed the ability to discuss what he had read intelligently and entertainingly There was no evidence of moodiness in him now He was the personification of affability, for was he notthe society of a very beautiful, and very wealthy young lady?

The day's outing had two significant results It put into the head of the second mate of the Half Mr Divine acute uessed it; and it put De Cadenet into possession of inforent invitation to dine upon the yacht, Lotus, that evening--the infor en route to Manila