Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-09-26
M y - II q h Y,
Or, Experiences Of Life In Call.
fornia By . Female Pioneer Of
1850.
BY CYNTHIA ANN.

usy VI sneH socohu uay journey,
II have not been right in allowing
you TO consider yourself As engaged
10 me, without knowing more Of your
history; am not even sure you are
not married."
"Miss Hetty, l can assure you to
the contrary. I am at liberty to
'enter into matrimonial engagement.
My business prospects will allow of
my supporting a wife. have no
friends among the passengers. My
Loneliness attracted me to you. As
soon as am in the City of San
francisco, will bring you proof of
my respectability; in the meantime
l will marry you-by the aid of the
first consul or official we meet-and
think it would be great protec-
ton If you would allow me to do so
as soon as possible. Your position is
one which exposes you to slandcr,
and you will be much better off as
Mrs. Parton than as Miss Bolton.
Dearest Miss Hetty, do not refuse me,
but be good child, and let me have
the power to protect you"
Hetty was overcome. There WIS
50 much in what Mr.. Parton urged
in his favor, she could hardly decline
him, and yet, on his word and honor
alone she was about to depend. He
seemed gentleman, and she wished
to believe him as an honorable one
and so, without further parley. Miss
Hetty consented, and, before the
America. Consul, who happened to
be at Gorgena, they were pronounced
man and wife; meantime, however,
love making proceeded, and Hetty
found her progress up the Chagres
hh hCu WHh uiuCh IttCutioh ~
was difficult to be otherwise than
happy, Notwithstanding the doubts
that would obtrude themselves from
time to time, and though the boat
men smiled, Mr. Blandford frowned,
and Mrs. Blandford seemed very in
dignant, the passage up the shallow
stream, the stopping at negro huts,
where notched logs served AS stair
ways, piles of hides luxurious beds,
and dirt of all descriptions marked
the surroundings Hetty felt her
dream of Paradise was realized.
Her inexperience in the world was
in her favor. Had she known
what she was coming to; had she
realized that large number of men
in the world who seem gentlemen are
simply seoundrels she would not
have felt Ms much at her ease as she
really did in regard to Mr.. Parton.
He seemed gentleman, and that was
all she really knew about him; but
that seeming was enough for the pres
ent, and all she had heard in regard
TO rutiiaus and swindlers from Mr..
Blandford. made her cling still more
to her husband, trusting in the end to
prove her own intuitiye perception
stronger than Mr.. Blandford's boasted
experience and Judgment. But the
journey was by no means ended with
the trip up the Chagres.
The rambling, rough. shed like
building. which served to accommo,
date ~ many OF the steamers pass.
engers as IL possibly could, was sur
rounded in the morning by the
braying donkeys which were N take
them to Panama. The cots were re-
moved, the tables spread for break
iast, which Was very soon finished,
when, the ladies equipped for the
Journey, were ready to mount.
Their improvised costume, which
had been suggested by the want OF
side saddles, cousisssd Of . pair Of
pants, blouse waist aud skirt, an
old straw hst, which had hssn OBJ
tained 70 replace the elder down
hood which some old mother in q
farm house among the hills Of New
HAmpshirc. felt would be such .
protection from the cold on the Issh-
mus, that Hetty had been induced
10 give IL place In her wardrobe.
Tho heat was terrific. aud the rains
had swollen the Streams, and LETT
the paths 80 muddy, thar more
ssarless rider than Hstty might we'll
have feared ~ take . side seat upon
khs saddls not meant for lady's use;
consequently the whole party werc
mounted alike, the incongruitiss Of
Ahs ladiss' costume afrordlng amnse-
mens to the bystanders. who. how
svsr rough - many az them were.
were already beginning to appreciate
ths value Of : white woman in their
midst. and respectfully turned away
20 conceal their amusement.
Ths BRIDE Of courss. wss the ob-
ject Of great consideration, and -
she ssidsntly was mash IN love