"Or where this one found him," suggested Mr. Harding.

"Well, I suppose that the least we can do is to have him

aboard for dinner. We'll be leaving tomorrow, so there won't

be much entertaining we can do."

"Let's pick him up on our way through town now,"

suggested Barbara Harding, "and take him with us for the

day. That will be settling 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 came about that

two big touring 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" came down in person to greet his caller.

Harding saw at a glance that the man was a gentleman, and

when he had introduced him to the other members of the

party it was evident that they appraised him quite as had their

host. Barbara Harding seemed particularly taken with the

Count de Cadenet, insisting 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 man.

There was no corner of the globe however remote with which

he was not to some degree familiar. He was well 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

not monopolizing the society of a very beautiful, and very

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