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

"You nave not been mere very long,
said Halbert. "One failure signifies
nothing How have you been impressed
by the possible chances?"
81 have been very well impressed.
There is no place in the world, am
sure. where it is possible for the invest
ment of a little capital to produce such
large results. But time is needed to ac-
complish these results"
"That is the case everywhere. Only
in dreams are fortunes realized in day.
Well, my dear fellow, so far as am con-
cerned-and | know l can answer for
Sibyl-the time is yours Neither she
nor | will demand what has been lost,
because we are well assured that you
will repay it to the last farthing as soon
as you are able. Only take care that you
do not risk more than you can afford in
the pursuit of 1t"
Il shall take care" said Derwent, "for
cannot afford to lose anything, and
nothing is SO near my heart as the pay
ment of this debt. Frank, you are true
friend; can never forget how you have
taken this! have no words with which
to thank you. but feel it more deeply
than | can say"
"You have no reason to thank me"
replied the other. Merely as man to
man could do less when | have the ut
most confidence in your honor and know
that you are anxious to repair what is
no fault of yours? Besides this, my
uncles good name is almost as dear to
me as it is to you. can never fail to
remember that he put me on my feet
when was young and struggling. For
the rest, it is not Sibyrs fortune that ]
have sought in seeking her, though of
course it will be my duty to see that it
is not thrown away. If it were legiti-
mately lost, however, | should not
mourn. We can do without it"
"You shall not need to do without it."
said Derwent Your faith and conf
dence give me fresh courage. There are
many more mines in Mexico besides the
Blena Esperanza, and, God helping me,
one of them shall yield back all that has
been lost of Sibyl's fortune"
And something for yourself, too.
hope" said Halbert. smiling
Not for long time had sleep been SO
sweet to Derwent as it was that night.
The consciousness of his cousins friend
ship-so quiet, so undemonstrative, but
so sincere, when tried by the test most
difficult to man-seemed to revive his
whole nature like strong wine. The
faith that believed SO firmly in his honor
and the sympathy that felt with him in
his trouble gave him that comfort which
even the strongest natures stand In need
of. He knew not what strain it had
been to bear his burden alone, and he
said to himself that, helped by such
friendship. his strength would be ''as the
strength of ten" to redeem his fathers
honor and justify the confidence placed
/ in his own.
Morning in Mexico is almost always
what morning must have been in the
primal Paradise, Nowhere else, surely,
could the world have seemed so entirely
as if it We're freshly created and rejoic-
ing in its creation What floods of sun
shine, what lucid skies, what enchant-
ing atmosphere, what buoyant freshness
of air these mornings bring to the awak-
ening earthl Merely to be alive seems
JOY enough, but, if other joy is added,
then the fresh gladness of nature is like
the special touch of an exquisite SYM
pathy.
SO it seemed to Derwent when he
opened his eyes to the joyous brightness
of another day in the land of sunshine;
and all the brightness was tenfold en-
HANGED when the first news that he heard
on emerging from his apartment
brought by the messenger whom he had
employed to call at the house every day
was that Don Maurizio and his house
hold had arrived.