Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-02-20

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
Parisr 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 tine 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 Bois de Boulogne, but where
else in the world will one find such a
setting tor 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 its beauty-the splen-
did avenue, with its level straightness
broken at intervals by magnificent circles
embellished with heroic groups of statu-
airy. and its long, leafy vista ending in
the superb mass of the Castle of Chapul-
tepec, the lovely outspread valley crossed
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 divlnely
lucid tints of color as no pen or brush
can ever describe or reproduce, with the
majestic submits of the two great vol
canoes towering above, clad in the daz-
zling whiteness of their eternal snow
Again and again Sibyl thanked Der
went for having provided the cause
which drew them to tins fascinating
land In the brilliant sunshine of days
filed with color and fragrance, with
loiterings in rich, dim churches and love-
ly Old world cloisters, in plazas filled
with the life of the dark, gentle. cour-
teous people, and on marble terraces, be-
low which spread the most beautiful of
earthly views, all things painful and dis
agreeable seemed to fade into insignifi-
canoe Yet, soIicitous as he was for the
pleasure of others, Derwent could not
himself have enjoyed the picturesque
scenes amid which they wandered had
he not possessed one underlying con-
sciousness. one constant thought ever
with HIM II shall see her againr'
But for that everything would have
been a WEAKNESS which was now de-
light Only day by day the longing for
her presence grew more insistent Now
and then 1t startled him. Now and then
he reused himself from his dream of ex-
pectation to ask what he should do when
the meeting to which he looked forward
so eagerly was over, when there was no
longer anything to sustain him in the
hopeless pain of separation. II shall not
blow out my brains" he would think,
and that is the only thing of which
am certain. shall live; | shall work,