cipal Occupation, when not setting down Expressions of
Delight on the Post-Cards, was to study Time-Tables and cable ahead
for Reservations.

The Invalid's one desire was to get home and take a regular Bath
before being laid out.

Hong Kong pleased them exceedingly because they learned, by consulting
Mr. Mercator's Projection, that they were on the Home Stretch and,
with Luck in their favor, might live to see another Piece of
Huckleberry Pie.

Japan they liked the best of all. At Yokohama they received a bundle
of Dailies only six weeks old, giving full Particulars of a Wedding
and telling who was about to run for Mayor.

As soon as they were on the Pacific and headed for a refined
Vaudeville Show, they began to recover the brave Spirit of Travel and
blow about what they had seen.

The Towns and Temples and Tombs and Treasures of Art were all jumbled
together, but, by daily reference to Baedeker and Murray, they were
enabled to find out where they had been and what they had seen with
their own Eyes and how it impressed them at the time.

Before touching at Honolulu they were real enthusiastic about India.
They advised the awe-stricken Listener who had not been all the Way
around to be sure and take in Penang and Johore and, if necessary,
they would give him Letters of Introduction.

They said it had been a Wonderful Experience. Yes, indeed. And
broadening. Very. Then Edwin would wander to the front end of the Ship
and want to climb out on the Bowsprit so as to be in Frisco ahead of
anybody else.

He convalesced rapidly as they approached the Golden Gate, for he knew
that in a few days he would unpack for good and gallop down to the
office and not have to worry about Travelling.

The only Dark Cloud on the Shore hung above the Custom House. They
looked at all the Junk wished upon them by the simple Children of the
Far East and didn't know whether to declare it for what it cost or
what it was really worth.

Being conscientious Members of the Church, they modified their Perjury
and smuggled only the usual amount of Carvings and hand-embroidered
Stuff.

Two hours after landing, Edwin saw a Porter-House Steak and burst into
tears.

They sped eastward by the first Train, still busy with the little Red
Books, for they knew they would have to answer a lot of Questions.

"Shall we own up and tell them the Awful Truth?" asked Selena.

"Not on your Esoteric Buddhism," replied Edwin. "We never will be
rewarded f