Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-08-03

"riter lue1s arc most vigorous and,
ms he .fondly hopes, most original.
But Mark was not altruist enough to
care two pins whether ho disturbed
his friend in the middle of notion or
a fried sole. And yet he, too, was II
writer.
Hc bounded into Ralph's rooms like
n tipcat.
"'m under sentence, my dear fell
low" he cried, Needless of the com
posed look Of reproach TINT was levied
ut him, "and | thought you'd like to
know"
"That's tiresome, exclaimed Ralph,
mcthodically closing his fountain pen.
"Now, Whit | want to know is"
proceeded Mark Darlington, "whcrc
am | to 60? Esad, if only L could
meet with girl like the future Mrs.
Grny-at lcnst, if all you say of her is
to be believed"
ga most wise reservation, thatl"
said Ralph. "But there, now, why
not get off to Wales and try your own
luck? People don't value Wales as
they ought. 1t is lovely country,
and you will find the people in the
out-of-the-way parts extraordinarily
simple and unspoilt."
"All right Give me her address, or
Mt least tell me her name; and il she
comes up to your own portrait of her,
by Jove, Ralph, I'll take the leap too,
and settle down"
III not give You her address, my
IG0r follow toll L.
But I'll tell you where l met her, and
| think you'll have no difficulty in
finding others something like her.
You can take train to Pwllheli and
then make your way TO Aberenllyn
anyhow You please.
Darlington picked up his stick.
"Thnnks, my denr fellow Oh, by the
way, just write it down, will YOU?
Aber- something or other is vague.
l hope the grub will be cndurable?"
eyes, it will be cndurable," said
Ralph, and he wrote the name ON n
slip OF paper. ''There you are, and n
good time to YOU"
Mnrk Darlington was much more
impulsive than he looked He was
forty-one, stout, rather more red of
face than he liked to be, and with
ears that stuck out from his head ms
ii they were the split halves of hoop
with the rounded parts set 10 his
skull.
The day after his interview with
Ralph Gray lie took train for Wales.
1t was close upon 4 o'clock when he
reached Aberenllyn. An mir of sacred
calm was over the village. The very
pigs of the place were penned. Words
cannot say more to prove the pro-
fundity ofAberenllyn's SUNDAY torpor
AT this stage of his adventures Mark
heard steps behind him, and the door
of cottage opened. Ho turned to
look into pair of sunny gray eyes.
They belonged to Young woman.
whose pretty figure was we'll declared
by her tight-fitting black dress. There
was either the beginning or the end OF
smile upon her lips. The lips were
small and shapely, and so were the
teeth they hnlf hid. Mark did not
take In all mt once the fact that this
girl was beautiful, but he felt instinc.
lively that she had human heart I'M
der her bodice. In reply, therefore,
to her charmingly lisped "Can we Offer
You shelter, sir?" he poured out his
plant. There was an elderly, dark.
eyed and hard-faced woman in the
gloom OF passage behind, and the
nlght-cap on her bead at once made
Mark regard her ms an enemy. But n.
he sat on q chair in the little room.
numbered with millinery, into which
ne had been invited, and watched the
play OF the girls face. Mark knew
that he had gained an ally.
He sat i'll patience while the cir
opened and carried OIL lengthy con
versation with the night-capped lady
MY aunt says, sir" observed til,
girl at length, "that if you will excus,
the confusion she shall give you
ROOM"
Another look into the gray eyes an,
all Marks scruples fed.
81 cannot tell you how relieved
feel, " he said, with genuinely CRATE
full ring in his voice, as he followe,
the girl into chamber about nine fee
square, the prim horse haired furnitur
of which was disguised under its Goa
of dust.
"That is my father" said the girl
pointing to the portrait of broad
shouldered man in black witha kindl
expression on his somewhat shagc
face, and with roll of paper in hi
hand, as if it were truncheon. can
that" indicating a minister on TIL
other side ofther room, ''iss my father
brother, Uncle Owen
"What must L call you?" aske,
Mark, when his pretty delivere
brought him his tea and sat down t,
see him eat it.