The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-02
TT DIDN'T WORK.
MT. Wetherby's Scheme to Marry @
 Young Heiress.

Mir. Augustus Wetherby walked up and down his apartment in an em- broidered smoking cap and jacket ap- parently absorbed in restless thought. Finally, he took up an open letter from the table, and for the third time perused its contents, which were as follows:
 DEAR GUs;-I drop you nasty line to catch the six o'clock mail. Minna Gray is with us, and want you to come up without delay ana see what you can do in the way of win ming an heiress. She is just from boarding school-a simple, unsophsticated girl of eighteen-and if you enter the field at once, l don't see why, with your advantages, you should not succeed in making an impres- sion. If uncle can't spare you from the office before Saturday, at least come up then, and stay till Monday. In a quiet coun- try house good deal can be done in that time. Eve spoke of you to Minna-judicious- iy, of course-and am sure she is already in- terested in you- She will be with us a week or so longer, and will then leave with her family for their Western home; so you see, there is no time to be lost. I shall certainly expect you on Saturday, if not before. Don't disappoint. Your devoted sister,
 AGNES MERRow. Hum! An, well, I may as we'll go up and see what she's liker' unused Mir Augustus Wetherby, giving a doubtful shrug of the shoulders. ''Old man still living; but won't object to that, if he'd do the handsome thing by me that he did with his other daughters husband In fact, it would be handy to have him go on making money for few years longer. It isn't every day that a fellow can pick up an heiress-pretty, too, I think Eve heard Morrow say. Cousin of his, eh? Convenient to have sisters marry fellows with rich young cousins. Yes, think may as well try it on.''
 On the following Saturday, accord ingly, a blonde young gentleman, faultlessly attired, and with a calmly satisfied and rather supercilious air, boarded the five o'clock train for 8 two hours ride to Verdon station.
 He found but two seats unoccupied- one next to fat old lady with a ticket conspicuously secured on the front of her shawl with three pins, and the other adjoining that of handsome, well grown young lady who was seated alone at window with a sachel beside her. Affecting not to observe the first seat, and even ig- noring the friendly tug at his coat tail of the fat lady, MT. Wetherby passed on, and paused with half wistful, half apologetic glance at the second vacant seat. The young lady observing this, promptly removed her shawl and sachel and made room for him.
 ''Thank you! hope I am not in- commoding you" said MT. Wetherbv. with his most graceful and winning manner.
 Not at all, she answered, raising a pair of bright, frank, brown eyes to his face.
 And then they sat for few moments silent as the train started. The breeze, with its inevitable cinders and dust. came in strongly at the window, and, of course. the young lady tried to close it, could not, and, equally of course, MT. Wetherby offered to do it for her. Then they naturally got to talking, the young lady manifesting no shyness or stiffness, and as MT. Wetherby looked at her smiling red lips and laughing eyes, and noticed her easy, self possessed manner, he con- graduated himself upon having such
 
 brief journey. She was alone, too, which encouraged him to assume little protective gallantry.
 Have you far to goP" he inquired, when he had conveniently arranged his sachel and umbrella at his feet.
 Would you call itfar to Princeton?" she returned, innocently.
 So she Is going to Princeton, a ride of six hours as MT. Wetherby looked at the bright, intellgentf face and brilliant eyes, he almost regretted that his own journey would be so short. He fancied, too, from an indefnable some thing in her look and manner that he had made a mash," as he himself would have significantly expressed it, and with an inward qualification set himself to deepen the impression by his most winning smiles and elegant and fastidious airs. Besides his admiration of the young lady, he would like to show the people around him that he was somebody. Just in front of him sat pale, delicate-looking lady, who was nervously endeavoring to keep two little children quiet Their fidgetting and pratte rather interferred with MT. Wetherby's conversation.
 ''Great nuisance, children on the cars, he observed fastidiously to his companion.
 ''I don't object to them. It is anus ing to observe their funny little ways" she replied good humoredly.
 "When they are good and pretty; but children like these little scamps