The Evening World

upon the coronation of King George.

CUPID PAUSES HERE IN REAL ROMANCE OF ENGLISH CORONATION

Young Hawaiian Planter Joined by Fiancee He Met in London.

Before Miss Rhoda Wilson of London, England, reaches her new home on a Hawaiian sugar plantation, where she is going as the bride of Noel Deerr, she will have traveled about eight thousand miles, and her bridegroom, who met her at the pier in New York when the Minnehaha of the Atlantic Transport line came in to-day, will have traveled ten thousand miles, coming for her and taking her back with him.

"But she's worth a couple of trips around the world," said the stalwart young planter as he stood with his sweetheart's hand in his after the ship had docked.

The passengers, who had been much interested in the rosy-cheeked English girl, wished the couple a long life and a happy one. And many an "all the world loves a lover" smile beamed in the passengers' faces when Miss Wilson said "I would have journeyed to Mars for him."

Some of the women aboard the ship, with feminine instinct, surmised early in the trip that Miss Wilson was the heroine of a romance and their ideas were communicated to Dr. H. R. Gatlay, the ship's physician, who is a fatherly sort of man, and to Capt. Claret, the chivalrous master of the Minnehaha.

Miss Wilson admitted to them that the women had guessed aright. Then she told her story.

She was standing in a crowded London street during the ceremonies attendant upon the coronation with sightseers. The scaffolding gave way. Chunks of it about to fall. She felt strong hands seize her suddenly and whisk her out of harm's way. The next instant the platform crashed upon the spot where she had been.

Her rescuer was a tanned young fellow-the handsomest man she ever saw, she thought. When she thanked him he gave her his card. It bore the name Noel Deerr and an address in Honolulu. He told her, too, the name of his London hotel. He had come "home" to see his monarch crowned, he said. Next day Deerr was delighted to receive an invitation to a reception at Miss Wilson's house, and in the few days before he started back to the Pacific islands he and the young woman whose life he saved became great friends.

When he got to the other side of the world he wrote and asked her to come there, too, and she replied that she would.

Just before they entered a taxicab to go to the Hotel Manhattan Mr. Deerr said, "We will be married in New York to-day. No, I don't care to say where or by whom. After that we will start for Honolulu."