"As I understand, he made three millions here." "Only too true, and that fact is responsible for my being here." "And for me, too," she said.

"Dad heard about him in the Marquesas, and so we started.

Only poor Dad didn't get here." "He--your father--died ?" he faltered.
She nodded, and her eyes grew soft and moist.
"I might as well begin at the beginning." She lifted her head with a proud air of dismissing sadness, after, the manner of a woman qualified to wear a Baden-Powell and a long-barrelled Colt's.

"I was born at Hilo.
That's on the island of Hawaii--the biggest and best in the whole group.
I was brought up the way most girls in Hawaii are brought up.

They live in the open, and they know how to ride and swim before they know what six- times-six is.