Nevada County picayune., 1886-06-30
IN THE WILDS OF ARKANSAS.
DY MOLLIE DARLING.

Tic speaker was young man of perhaps thirty years of age, tall,
 dark complexion, black hair and
 brown eyes that would laugh in
 spite of himself as he asked the question. He addressed a young
 lady who was standing with her , back toward him, gazing into the depths of rapid river which
 wound it's way among the trees and lurned along until 1t joined the Arkansas at no great distance, for be it known to the readers of
 this short romance was enacted in C., Arkansas.
 The young lady started at hear
 ing herself so unccremoniously I spoken to. but habitual good man iners enabled her to reply:
 "Doctor Darlington lives just
 beyond those trees, but, (and here
 the dinples in her cheeks danced)
 papa is not at home today"
 Are you Doctor Darlington's
 daughter?"
 She replied in the affirmative, and he added:
 Il was going 10 have the doctor
 extract a tooth, which has been
 aching for nearly week, but am willing to wait another day as 1t has afforded me the pleasure of meeting hs charming daughtcr.' Taking a card case from his pocket he took from it card and lowing slightly he presented it 10
 her. She took it and read the
 name of "Henry Marsden.o
 He was intcntly watching her as
 she stood there. Her hat had fall
 cn to the ground, and her sunny
 hair fell in riaSlet5 to her waist.
 He thought he had never bcheld
 so lovely creature.
 At longth she looked up and
 said: Papa will not be at home till late tonight Mr. Marsdcn, but yOu can see him ill :he morning." Then with a bright glance from
 her blue eyes, she said good morning. and turning in the dircc- . ton of the honsc, soon disappear = ed 'round bend in the path, : leaving Mir. Marsden gazing after
 her with his soul in his eyes, for , he recognized for the first time in l his life, he was in love, and worst , of all with an entire stranger whom t he had never seen but once, but . he determined that it should not be his fault if it was the last time.
 With these thoughts upperm0st in
 his miud, he turned his steps in
 the direction othis boardiug-house I for he had just come to C. and I was boarding with private family in the outskirts of the town. His
 home was in Michigan, and he
 came to C-- to engage in teleg raphy He was model young ,, gentleman, kind to all, but of this
 worlds goods he was not oyer.hnr- dcned with more than he could comfortably carry; although his
 income was rath,r more than his
 expenditures.
 Beware. young man, Dr. Darl- , inston is a hard-hearted man, for if you are not ono of those tortu- nate persons "born with silver
 spoon in yonr mouth,' you will | not stand much chance of winning . May Darlington's hand, because s he is determined May shall marry Q for money if she breaks her heart 0 in the bargain.
 :, Many times that day Mays | thoughts wandered to the ;hand- | some young stranger she had met l. that morning and who was coming n 10 see hor father on the morrow.
  n Hearing the bell rng next | morning, May went to the door c and there stood the young man of t the day previous. She had the n unpleasant fact to communicate | that her father had been called not - more than ten minutes before to y one of his patients who was taken i suddenly worse, but, she added,
 .'he will be back soon, will yoa v wait!"
 : It is hardly necessary to state 9 that he was willing 10 wait, and he ], thought time had never passed so |. quickly as it did that charming D morning; for on looking at his - watch be was surprised 10 learn - he had been there more than all