He stayed--for three months." "But how did you escape ?" "I'd have been there yet, if it hadn't been for a girl there, a half-Chinese, quarter-white, and quarter-Hawaiian.

She was a beauty, poor thing, and well educated.

Her mother, in Honolulu, was worth a million or so.

Well, this girl got me away at last.

Her mother financed the settlement, you see, so the girl wasn't afraid of being punished for letting me go.