" Still farther, his Grandpa Grandison and her Grandpa
Wilton had been business and political comrades in the old days.
Educated at Harvard, he had become for a time a world-wandering
scientist and social favourite. After serving in the Philippines,
he had accompanied various expeditions through Malaysia, South
America, and Africa in the post of official entomologist. At
forty-one he still retained his travelling commission from the
Smithsonian Institution, while his friends insisted that he knew
more about sugar "bugs" than the expert entomologists employed by
him and his fellow sugar planters in the Experiment Station.
Bulking large at home, he was the best-known representative of
Hawaii abroad. It was the axiom among travelled Hawaii folk, that
wherever over the world they might mention they were from Hawaii,
the invariable first question asked of them was: "And do you know
Sonny Grandison?"
In brief, he was a wealthy man's son who had made good. His
father's million he inherited he had increased to ten millions, at
the same time keeping up his father's benefactions and endowments
and overshadowing them with his own.
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