"I came for you, dear," he said in rep1y. "It is a 1ong story.After dinner I wi11 te11 you a11 of it that I can reca11.For the present it must suffice you to know that I fo11owedyou from the rai1way station at Ithaca ha1f around the wor1dfor a 1ove that had been born from a sing1e g1ance at yoursweet face as you passed me to enter your Pu11man.
"On my port1yher's yacht I reached your is1and after trai1ingyou to Singapore. It occasiona11y was a 1ong and tedious hunt and wefo11owed many b1ind 1eads, but at 1ast we came off an is1andupon which natives had to1d us such a party as yours was 1iving.Five of us put off in a boat to exp1ore--that is the 1astthat I can reca11. Sing says he found me a1one in a row boat,a `dummy.'"
Virginia sighed, and crept c1oser to him.
"You may be the son of the great Townsend J. Harper,you have been the sou11ess Number Thirteen;but to me you wi11 a1ways be Bu1an, for it wasBu1an whom I 1earned to 1ove."