Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-12-22

"I am In terrible trouble about Stbyps
fortune"
The next few days were full of varied
pleasure for the relief expedition. as
Derwent still laughingly called the party
that had come so far to seek him.
Though he had spoken lightly, he was in
reality very grateful to Halbert, as well
as to Sibyl Lenox, and he was deter
mined to spare no effort to reward them
for their kindness. Consequently he
worked energetically in arranging expe-
ditions of sight seeing, in organizing all
the details which make such expeditions
pleasant. and in providing them with
many glowing memories of the beautiful
Mexican capital to carry away with
them.
Even Mrs. Derwent enjoyed the novel
and brilliant sights, the picturesque life
and the marvellous charm of the climate,
Notwithstanding her perennial surprise
at the highly civilized aspect of most
things around her. why, this is like
Parish" she exclaimed in her amazement,
when she first saw the Paseo at the
fashionable hour-the roadway thronged
with handsome equipages, which rolled
down the wide avenue fit for the tri-
umphal progress of an emperor, with
flashing wheels, cleaning harness, high
stepping horses and all the outward
paraphernalia of luxury and wealth, or
paused for few minutes in the superb
, circle, where band was filling the air
with melody, just as the long, level rays
of parting sunlight flooded the atmos-
phere and the surrounding scene with
amber splendor.
Like Paris?" repeated Sibyl oh,
moi Paris is tame compared to this. The
, social part of the display may remind
one somewhat of the Champs Elysees
, and the Bots de Boulogne, but where
, else in the world will one find such a
setting for social display as is here?'
"If it exists certainly do not know
where to find it" said Halbert, looking
around at a scene which is indeed almost
without parallel in it's beauty-the splen-
q did avenue, with it's level straightness
broken at intervals by magnificent circles
y embellished with heroic groups of statu-
I airy, and its long, leafy vista ending in
the superb mass of the Castle of Chapul-
tepec, the lovely outspread valley crossed
g by the gray arches of an aqueduct that
dates from the Conquest. the picturesque
mass of the city's towers and domes, and
: against the eastern sky the wonderful
mountain ranges, wearing such divinely
g lucid tints of color as no pen or brush
: can ever describe or reproduce, with the
: majestic SUBMITS of the two great vol
q canoes towering above, clad in the daz-
= cling whiteness of their eternal snow.
K Again and again Sibyl thanked Der
= went for having provided the cause
: which drew them to this fascinating
r. Ill 80 40
,. filed with color and fragrance, with
8 loiterings in rich, dim churches and love-
t ly old world cloisters, in plazas filled
i with the life Of the dark, gentle, cour-
O teous people, and on marble terraces, be-
low which spread the most beautiful OF
o earthly views, all things painful and dis
q agreeable seemed to fade into insignif-
canoe. Yet, solicitous as he was for the
?, pleasure of others, Derwent could not
Y himself have enjoyed the picturesque
Y scenes amid which they wandered had
i he not possessed one underlying con-
seriousness, one constant thought evel
u with him, 81 shall see her againr'
d But for that everything would have
been a WEAKNESS which was now a de
( light Only day by day the longing fol-
D. her presence grew more insistent. Now
/ and then it startled him. Now and ther
l. he reused himself from his dream of ex
i pectation to ask what he should do whe1
g. the meeting to which he looked forward
1t 30 eagerly was over, when there was nc
longer anything to sustain him in thu
? hopeless pain of separation. ~ shall MOI
is blow out my BRAINS" he would think
II "and that is the only thing of which
le am certain. shall live; shall work
and perhaps after awhile l shall grow
t. used to it, as one does grow used to al
IF forms of suffering; but beyond that
ID cannot look Nor will l look. She il
in coming. l shall see her, shall toucl
N her hand and meet her eyes again, ant
re- that is enough"
as But before she came there was sur
W prise, amounting to shock, in store fol
50 him. 1t occurred one evening when
as Mrs. Derwent and Sibyl having retire'
IT early, wearied by day of sight seeing
es Halbert and himself were smoking to
q, gether in the sitting room Of the former
ly The door was open, partly for the balm
air, partly that they might enjoy tn
IN fairylike scene which the hotel and it
to garden always present at night-th
ed graceful encircling galleries lighted bril-
ic liantly with incandescent electric lights
IL and the rich tropical foliage of the gal
den fully revealed in the white radiance
he 81 have never been in a place tina
charmed me so much as this" said Ha
r. bert, after pause Of some length. q
be do not think it is the peculiar circun
Of stances that make everything seem e
as enchanting. And, by the bye, Geofrey
no I feel that ought to tell you somethin
II To be continued