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Show I gfeme yellow spring. UpW- Romantic Mexican toty Sf$ BY WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP. R i lvi& rCopyrlfthted by J. B. Lippincott rompany, and pr V i'CJy?? Iished by spotial arrangement with th "They can inspire everything in men," returned hr companion, with a rathr determined nr. "Uh, I did not mean that; I atn not to illy. I ouly meant Well, I think I only liks to hear myself talk." These were the days of which eh wrote to her friend Knuly: , "I Mem to be living in a kind of heaven up. in earth everything around me so beautiful, everybody so gtxxi to uie, that 1 appreciate it with an over-fulneta over-fulneta of the heart, and all the nn and j trouble of the w.rld apparently removed. V an infinite distance." IXm Walter brought her the little green inme of which he had spoken, it j uiade a pretty ornament, and ah attach- ! d it to ber wstchtfaaru. Soon after this Dun Waiter's labor at the ruacin.'j came to an end. Then he disappear. 1, nd wm neither nen Bar fxard from ag ain for a oaaiden.U time. To be runtlnuej next Saturday. bracelets, necklaces and rings, set with precious stones, they had on the images, Kith the rain of emeralds, rubies, pearls and diamonds, scattered over their silken garments, and the solid cash in the trens-nry. trens-nry. And now they make the government govern-ment pay some hundreds of dollars a rear to support theni." He was much more direct in his talk on such a point as this. Indeed, in all matters involving a rough sort of execu-tivo execu-tivo ability, especially in the directions of greed and persecution, he was not lacking in spite of his foggy speech. The Senora del Prado and her daugh- I ter had already gone away in dudgeon. Tliis talk, in fact, broke up the group. Don Waiter and Amy went to the garden. gar-den. It was in the great gardens that ,erbaps their pleasantoat hours of all' were spent. They passed along a bosky walk, opening into a sort of Pantheon of ; clipped foliage, in niches of which wore set Flora, Bacchus, Apollo and the like. The pr.th hence was narrow, and at the end of it you came, quite by surprise, npon cn immense, oblong fish pond, with a straight avenue of noble trws leading upward with a gentle undulation from its farther ?nd. At one side of the Dih pond were most ornate flower gardens; nn the other, extending its whole length, was a broad flight of steps with rows of broken columns along them, and at the top, little corner pavilions looking dywn over a miniature barranca. The couple sat down upon those steps, near the water. wa-ter. "When I first saw nil this," said Ami "I realized the enchanted gardens of Annida." In the fish pond were six little formal stone islands, which served as a place of support for roses. They wore to be readied by boats, high pooped, green and gilded, such as indeed might have been found iu the gardens of Arniida. Nor was all this too carefully kept; it was tieated in practical, every day fashion that but added to its charm. Somo of tho I.iscions superabundance of mango and guava lay rotting along tho terrace walks, aud appetizing odors coming forth from the corner turrets showed that they, too. were used for the storage of fruit. Amy had grown rounder and plumpei since coming to Las Delieias; her health, was better than before, and she had probably never looked so well in all her life as now. Her companion was diawn, perhaps, by some unusual appearance of bloom, to refer to it. "Yes," she said, welcoming the reference refer-ence brightly, "I got old Trinidad Jose to weigli mo on his scales the oher day, and tho result is, after calculating your kilograms into pounds which is no easy matter 1 weigh a good 140." 'JSo? really?" A Spanish girl would not have talked to him like that. There wis about her an entrain, a thorough fret -loin of character, together with a range of intelligence to which he haft never been ieed in women, that continually contin-ually delighted him. "Oh, dear! I was such a thin, forlorn looking person," sho continued. "I had a cold one spring I believe they thought I would never recover from. It is not bo very long ago since my brother used to call me the Hag C:iby." "Rag Baby?" I don't think I understand." under-stand." "I didn't suppose you would. Oh, a , nerveless, boneless, limp sort of object don't yon know? I used to wear a very largo white necktio in a bow knot it was a fashion just then and my brother pretended that my head was tied on with it, ai d would full olf if I pulled out the ends," "Our Mexico has at least so much to commend it that it has done all this for you." ing electric currents along the mineral i veins to melt out their content. I want to pierce to the central reservoirs of treasure. It is wealth like that which I j need; less will hardly suffice me." i Amy was pained as by a certain earnestness earn-estness and genuine greed in these wild aud monstrous ideas. "Why do yon want so much money?" she ajked him. "To rival your Vanderbilts and As-tors, As-tors, your great magnates of New York, he answered, turning it off, laughing. "But is there no way? Yon are to young yet. If you are discontented her, why not go Iwtck to your own country, where opportunities aud a career naturally nat-urally await you?" "I want an incredible sum; I will never go there without it." "Yon do not do yourself justice in these ideas," she said, simply. They got np and walked on to a spot perhaps the most quaint and curious of all. The princely f jnuder of the hacienda, haci-enda, fatlur of the present occupant, had spared no expensive caprice. He had built here, beside a wunu spring, a small pavilion made of solid blocks and columns of clear glass. This .'oquettish structure was but the bettor tor beiug greened end broken by time. "1 often come hero in the afternoon, when it is in slnde, and sit eitiier iu it or on the bench beside the spring," said Amy; "it is a favorite place of mine." It was not to be wondered at. The view, too, had its poculinrclniriit; a vitta had been cut through tho tms, and bo-fore bo-fore the eye was spread like a dream a prospect of agreeable solitude, ending in tho vast, twin snow crowned peaks. "Try it now, in the sun," begged Walter; Walt-er; "let me see the effect." His companion, amiably complying, mounted into it and stood in the center. Opalescent aud silvery gleams fell upon her and enhanced the brightness of her hair and the distinct blue of her eyes. Sho was like some priestess of light in her tj'inple, or there was a mysterious effect about the whole, like a flame burning burn-ing in the sunshine. 'The basin is a singular one," said she, coming down. "Sometimes, as I tit beside it, it tubs and flows before iu very ey- I have heard thera say ita level can be affected even by the human voice." "Some of tho water is that coming down from the hot springs above, but it una much more than their singularities." singulari-ties." "I havo not yet seen those springs." They started to go to them, when Trinidad Jose, lately detailed to look after af-ter that part of the place, came along with a large dog, that was much his companion, trotting at his hcei "What is his name'" asked Amy, stopping stop-ping as they passed to give the animal a friendly pat. She had a pleasant word for everybody, by which sho had gained already no small popularity on the estate. es-tate. i The man, before replying, looked cautiously this way and that, and then at both of them in a searching way that seemed to reassure him. " 'Corcovedo,' " he answered. " 'Corcovedo?' " rejieated Walter In surprise. "If you despise a man in this country," he explained to Amy, "the most insulting thing you can do is to call an animal after him." "I wouldn't want to have it known," said the gardener. "Do' you like the Jefe Politico?" he asked. "No, I think him an odious man," re-, re-, turned Amy. j "Ah, that is it, you don't find liim an ' admirable person? Well, I think him a dovil and the son of a devil; that is why I call my dog after him." "But such a nice dog' It isn't fair to him." "I can't help it; it's the only way I have. 1 just call him Corcovodo over to myself a few times every now and then, and it doe me a world of (food. The old scouudrel don't know it; if he did he'd be too strong an enemy for me." Ing bvu used to anything else," Raid Dou Tftlter. Aud he was led into questioning tier with interest on the appearance of thi'-gs in the United States, about which his recollections of infancy were so exceed-ing exceed-ing vague. He waa evasive, and checked himself, however, when there seemed any approach towards a need of declaring declar-ing who his connections were there and under what circumstances he had left it. They also rode together a good deal about the hacienda, the young women sometimes accompanying Walter, and sometimes repairing, under proper guard, to the curious points some distant dis-tant corral, or an aqueduct, or an irrigating irri-gating pond, large enough for a lake, where he was at work. Amy hud looked forward to mounting into the saddle in which she had had but slight experience with a kind of longing dread, but, the ice once broken, she made up iu courage what she lacked in skill. Young Walter thought her masculine looking English habit, with her high silk hat, from which floated a blue gauze veil like a light smoke in autumn, even more becoming than her costumes of every day life. They two, as Americans, to whom all things are permitted, were allowed to be together with more freedom than might otherwise have lcen the case. The family fam-ily thought good to wam Amy on the score of Dou Walter's rather improvident character, and that he would not be at all a good match in the pecuniary way, but they were reassured by her smile, and felt that this companionship was only another of her ways of enjoying with a keen zest tho novelty of the country. Besides this, too, their attention atten-tion was drawn away from it by something some-thing of especial interest to themselves. The Jefe Politico, Senor Corcovedo, it appeared, had been taken by the looks of Beuorita Luz, young as she was, and, though he himself was a widower of even more than middle age, was conung there to pay her his court. "He is too ugly; he has odious high cheek bones and great yellow teoth like a gorilla, and he is stupid and without manners," objected Senorita Luz, aroused on this score at least to plenty of vivacity. vi-vacity. There were traditious, too, of repulsive repul-sive cruelty he had used in the wars. He was an ignorant, self made man, who had pushed himself well to the front and featherf -1 his nest in the political politi-cal troubles. SMI, he was a person of much consideration, he stood high with the govrtmTKiiit, beiug sustained by the favor Qf pi eminent persons of the more radical ?ring at Mexico, and Ueu. del Pradft Jioved by grounds of worldly policy, thought well to give ample opportunity op-portunity for his suit, and to seo if the reluctance uf his dtiJtrliter ml.'tkt not be evereome. I n.e aaugnter, too since n. wa.i her first suitor, even though a repulsive re-pulsive one was not so wholly uncivil still boiling and bubbling in the gorge, that it is still an active crater, as it were," said Amy. "Seriously, now, it occurs to me sjieaking of treasure as yon were that places in which such violent vi-olent turmoil is going on ought to be promising. It seenis as if nature ought to throw out there complete specimens of everything she piwsessee in the heart of the earth, including the most valuable valu-able of all." "It's a rather striking idea, but it must have been tried yes, I'm sure it has been tried. My recollection it that, though volcanic districts are rather favorable generally tb the precious melals, the active craters have not yielded anything of consequence." j "Have you been to the gorije V j "No; and yet I hardly know why I Haven't, since 1 have often been hard put to it for excitement." " 'Eicitemeut;' are yon snre yon make : tho most of yourself?" asked Amy, taking tak-ing him to task. "Do yon know they give you something of a bad character?" she said, frankly "consort iuc with unprincipled un-principled revolutionist, es-brigands, and the like." "They mean Capt. Perea. of course," takiug it quite good uaturedly. "The general here docs not like him lieramw iie did not belong to the same political faction. I can truthfully i I have never seeii anything wroug with Peres. Kor my part I find no great difference le- ween the factions; all alike we ready to tear their country to pieces it an uv-tant'n uv-tant'n uotice. My small experietin wit', revolutions has made me aeqc'UUiod with somo bold fighters aud good iport-tnen, iport-tnen, that's all." "And you take iirt in Uiem? la this a career for a young man who ought to take a leading position?' "What is the use of trying under such a state of things, where first one ambitious ambi-tious chief upsets the government, then another? There is no stability, no certainty. cer-tainty. They promise us peaceful times at present, aud that more railroads are to be built; pcrhaiu some opportunities will open in them, but 1 think it will be long enough before we shall see them, and they will hardly furnish place to all."'- "Then why uot go to the I'nited Statoa, I ask you ouee more?" "It takes much money to live there among you American Cnnsusee." Such perverse answers as this tended to confirm the account she had heard of him as an unsettled, improvident person. But when have women required that those in whom they interest themselves should MMHa nil the cardinal virtues. I Siiring a disappointed look un her face, Wal:er added, however, as they were going down, "It is for a purpose worthy of your approval; I have a great burden psting upon me." i lie was accomplished in woodcraft, (n a season of leisure he headed an expeditionIn ex-peditionIn which all the children of tho house were included to explore the 'oods on the slope behind the hacienda, tie put a tltarocte in his belt, the half word, half kiokle of the country, useful to open a path, cut an orange or coffee stick, or lop off an orchid for whoever wanted it. He hud the gift, among others, of making himself agreeable to tho children, and they enjoyed the day highly. They likod to run, to shriek, to pretend to be afraid. "Los torus! los toros!" (the bulls) they would cry, finding purely imaginary resemblances re-semblances to some fierce animal, and then Uar bock madly to bury their faces in the skirtsof Amy or Lni!. Walter pointed out tbn mahogany tree, the white camphor, the quinia bush. "It is like a growing drug store," said Amy. "How do you come to know so much about them all? For my part, I am surprisingly igmrant of the country, nd it U now too lal to learn." He did not tell her that his father perpetrator of the greatest defalcation of his day, which had shaken the money centers to their depths had turned, in his refuge, to such pursuits, and mad him the companion of all his walks, implanting im-planting thus a taste whioh his later manner of life had served to coufirm. He turned the queetion aaitl in some easy way, as he often had occasion to do. They grouped themselves for luncheon on a large rock, near which a cool brook ran forth, and the children went and wided merrily in the water, mingling their laughter with its bubbling. . CHAPTER IV. THE PARK MYSTERY OF THE EARTH. i CHAPTER III. JlUO TIMES AT LAS DELICIAS. F1 j 52 If Lpon Amy "ie e$et oi the 0race-f 0race-f 1 mantilla. It Walter arrived at Las Delicias I morrow he surprised a little scene Lit for the public view. In the Lvir.groom, a noble, simple apart-lirnished apart-lirnished in the style of the first ,lm and some younger sisters Ling npon Amy the effect of the I jmantilla, which in Spanish coun-1 coun-1 phces the bonnet. The black lace Led charmingly with her bright l iil a fawn colored gown which ;,rv smoothly over her nice should-I should-I ; round arms. ' Tight of Walter she would have - pulled off the veil; the others not have it, but invited his criti-Instead, criti-Instead, and so she loft herself help-Is help-Is it wore, in thoir hands, iter was downcast and quieter than I and it was the general, just then L in, who paid the compliments. I" can give our little Mexicans les-wearing les-wearing their own costume," ha geniral. ly kept Walter to dinner, and then Irits revived. Iter all," he said, "why not enjoy I asnres fate provides for me?" It dinner the .papers were spread I on a table placed in an open cor-l cor-l nound a central court, in which a Lin played. The family gathered Lso. Wliile the reading of the re-jiirosressed, re-jiirosressed, one might glance over I opposite wall, ornamented with a I n not unlike that of the Ducal Pal-It Pal-It Venice, with carven gargoyles, I strip of blue sky above it, or catch, Lhtlie rear portal, alluring glimpses I greenery of the gardens. At that I was a sunny parten-e, enameled jflowor beds, and planted but thinly fra;,Tant lemon and limoncillo. At I, clipped hodfte began the grateful I of iae gardens proper. The haci-I'.vns haci-I'.vns like those characters which do l.ispby themselves wholly to the I oaer, but reserve their choicest I : ies for their intimates. lilad, general, that your line follows I va bed along to the hither edge of I tmnca of Cimarron and does not In that chasm," said Dou Walter. I") yon sure of that?" ...ivo verified the survey very care-I'oll, care-I'oll, a good riddance to bad rub-I rub-I 8o the Yellow Snake does not belt') be-lt') us after all, eh? Tho right goes : Neighbor Garcia, I suppose?" riiy, no; not to him either. I did hue sort of work for him a couple pre ago and his boundary stops I of the other sido of it. So the t revered by the Barranca and a more is a sort of No Man's Land, I contended for most likely by the J icitl general government, if they 1 isn't at nil strange; a little land I r less has been of no great account t Nti J the general, turning to Amy I explaining way. "I will tell you I 'he titlf3 were chiefly established in I'st place. A viceroy would ride up I oill with a friend or client of his, I 'I give you all the land from I is fur as your eye can reach." Then I "uld ride up on another hill, not so I wr remote from the first, with an-F an-F Wend, and say to him, 'I give I'll the land from here as far tw you I'e,' or perhaps, 'as far as you can I half a day's journey.' Thus, you I 're, there could easily be some con- la. del Prado was so well pleased :lte result shown him that he de-It" de-It" have Walter next undertake an I ate plotting of many irregular par-I par-I of cultivated ground and pasture I which the hat-wrnda itself was divid-I divid-I The young man was delighted to r'-'fe the opportunity; he could not I 'if have planned anything that I 1 have better gratified the 'wishes of I -w employi lent gave him association f Amy iu -dj9 freest, most natural 1 He iften remained over night, and P-e evening there was informal dancr I'a the long parlor, or she played for F the nation il airs of her country or F own. She commended herself to l-osts by her ready enthusiasm; they I" genuinely pleased to hear her de-many de-many things in Mexico much bet-fn bet-fn in tho tinted States. Y'M particularly understand how to l:- Wo stately," she told them, "and f the Americans, with all their ex-t ex-t '1ture, rartly arrive at." r 9 Waning t) the picturesque and I native was a strongly developed I in her life. She went about with I- sketch bxks, in which she put la odd hlt Trith no great success, l.'h tangible- enjoyment to herself. e living in picture land," said I ' Fancy my waking np in a room I a saint and cherubim in the corner I the bed statding on a dais with I Sometimes I get up very early in I ai orniat; an 1 climb a low staircase I 'elvlls. I uke to sit there and look I the fresh lovely landscape with t bell just over my head helping f;anieitin. Even the kitchen hs a ,fcd chimney and blue tiles. I feel as I -'tiling historic, or, rather fairy like, f - to happen to me here." II can hardly appreciate the differ- 5-oa ell onarcsly-ever uajt I a to him as might have been supposed. Meanwhile, Amy had not forgotten the sweot looking young nun she had met at Cuernavaca. This was a figure by whose appearance aud unusual history she had been particularly struck. Senora del Prado took her to see the embroideries of ,the ex-sisters, and she sometimes re-' re-' turned there alone. They lived in a ileasant, one story house, of the rural sort, in tho hamlet of Campo Flondo, not far from tho hacienda. Their principal prin-cipal room was of large size, brick floored, and cool, and looked out on one side into the "T;.S3 grown, principal street, and on tho "other into a charming, simple garden. .. Amv, whoso imagination was easily kindled, said to Deatriz, as she sat there with the latter one day, learning a new lace stitch " How charming and peaceful your life is! It seems ideal. Sometimes lean-not lean-not help envying you." "Ah. no; 1 am very unfortunate. 1 am neither of the world nor out of it, returned the recluse, sadly "How many of its distractions and temptations are thrown in upon us bore! I am not strong enough to withstand them. I often fee myself falling away from a high ideal and growing worse daily.' Dona Beatriz returned the liking of the pretty American , so novel a person for her ami was sometimes also at tho hacienda to repay her visits. They were all assembled as-sembled in the corridor on one oc just after she had left them, when tb Jefe Politico, wholly without tact and rhling rough shod over the favorite leanings lean-ings of those whom he was making a nrotense to conciliate, began: "Bah' They're a fine lot. the nuns-these nuns-these mincing, genteelish ones of the or-der or-der of Santa Rofa as well as the rest. I'd send them all packing, if I had my erCorSo!" protested the Madre, flushing strongly with indignation indigna-tion This was the day that finally set-ed set-ed his case, so that after that they would have nothing more to do with hi"f speak ouly for myself," said the TvS .tn SUrr for a public official-for exam-Knquets-you understand what 1 Amy tooted an imaginary trumpet be- S'panpoor faces," he went on I ..thS women like the one who has just tnese worn , tUrw) ftS "hat uLl to belong to their tne treas b hiJ(len somewhere, 2 L the mother superior and erfwhwe' t abroad," suggested the gtT'f f' -r hrlieve it-no, sir. Somebody "I,d it me "the story that it was h3f ".Tt wtoolxlky. Way, n, ft? a ' Ud silver raUing across and golden candlesticks high-th high-th th I am and as thick through the While they were still smilyig with amusement at this simple way of revenging reveng-ing one's self npon an enemy, the young brother Angel came up. He had the hobby of chemical experiments present, pres-ent, and he was in search of Tton Walter, to go with him to the upper source of the spring, and help him find among the mineral substancos, incrusted abont those waters, somo proper specimens for asalysis. Accordingly, they all wfint on together, togeth-er, following the little stream, which smoked, over a clear bed, among thickets of luxuriant tropical plant. At the upper up-per level nature, as usual, had been much supplemented by art. The springs brok out at the foot of a cliff formed of col nmns like those of Fincl's (Jave. A portion por-tion of the upper part of the cliff had been rudely carved in the shape of a human hu-man face, and had a balustrade and cypresses cy-presses on the top. The waters hot, cold and impregnated with various mineral min-eral elements ran out upon a terrace, with heavy ramps and stairway, and were led along to a place where bathing tanks, discreftly veiled with charming shrubbery, were arranged. "Here, indeed, one may rather appreciate appre-ciate that he is in a crater. This rock is a part of the denuded wreck of tb very heart and nucleus of the eld volcano, wind and weather having ground all the ret to powder. It came up molten hot in its time; that's what made it cool off in these hexagon columtm. You can find them of all sizes, some as fine as a needle." "And haven't the hot springs something some-thing to do with those same internal fires?" inquired Amy, her voice not quite free from a tra of anxiety. "There can't lie much doubt of it, considering con-sidering the peculiarities thrty present Or they may be only indirectly connected connect-ed with it through those on a far greater scale in the Barranca of Cimarron. The bottom of toe Barranca, 1 believe, is higher than toia point, and possibly they work through. At any rate, the luine formation belongs to the two placee; the same rent made in the mountains moun-tains when the Barranca was formed, tapering off to an infinitesimal crack, can be traced over the country to very near here." "And you still pfcrsit that yon are not afraid? It will probably not be in my time, but when 1 go away from here 1 shall have to luok botk o you all with a good deal of mi.-iving.'' "Not L your ladyship," he returned. "It frightens me very much mar to think you are going away, even though the date be remote." j Angel, who heard the question, I laughed loudly. In baste to be at his wort below An-gJ An-gJ was gathering his specimen flowers of sulphur, white vitriol, sulphide of arsniio and what not with all spL I and he soon kft the others to themselves. I I'cmlifl ma that the valcaajc JaTavia There was ono place where brokna arrow ar-row hnada and fragment of Mrthmiwar remain of the Aztec could b picked up. Amy wm much plwed t And the anttquitini borself, but Waller treated them Indifferently, promising her better. "I beg your pormftaion to bring you a little Image I found awhile ago la the ruins of the temple at Xochichalco," said he. "It is of chalchihnltl, th" grrnn stone once considered sacred. It is ef do sort of us to me." "Xochi? nd chsl?" "The mouth of some charming tnr-' eigners are too small to pnmonnce such long words all st once." "Oh, avec cu! It will lie large enough to say something pretty severe if you moke such absurd sixwrb'w." On the very crest of the awmit was found a tall trw, in the top of which wm a neglecUxl seat, reached by U-jm, which was a lookout place. There could b n a part of the Escorial like roofs of the hacienda, with a glint of statue and of wat"r in the fertile expanse spreading out before it. Gazing dnwn the outward slope, you saw a it were a field of newly plowe1 earth, which waa in fact a vast lava finld, cutting off acce to the mountain on that aid. Very far away and high up was had a glimpse of the white and splintered wall of a chaam. One fancied fan-cied also he saw a film of steam rising from it, such a hovers over Popocatepetl. Popocate-petl. "There is the Barranca of Cimarron, nd of the traditional Yellow Knake," said Don Walter, pointing it out. "I dare say those cliffs are 3. OX feet high." "Always the Yellow Snake. Did you tiill me you bad never been there T "Why, no, not to penetrate to it It Is all but inacceamble, you know." "There is o little enterprise here In your Mexico. If we American had it we should have bad railroad excursion and guide, patent medicine sign painted on the rock, and a trm of very Urge and very bad hotel which wo ' have taken moat of our worldly Unce for the privilege of seeing thoe wonders." "Bat you forget how spaxaaly settled the country is. and the d! faculty of getting get-ting about: and it baa by no mean el-ways el-ways been safe. There are extremely few person who would want to mu j neb aa excursion. And there must be plenty more places a well where man ; has hardly ever yet art foot" j "I am jnat dying for adventures." con- j tinned Amy, willfully, "but what is there j 'The tradttUmnl Yellmv ftnrtke," said lion Waiter, pointing it . They drifted next in their talk to the boorish Jefe Politico, and then to a sub-ject sub-ject his last remarks naturally called forth. ... I "Tbo air is full of such stones, if you will listen to them," said Wraitor. "Ac--ording to veracious authorities, our soil is perfectly sown with treasure, from tho golden calendar whtls of Ouati-mozin Ouati-mozin down to tho pesetas of the latent stage robber. The old mines abandoned in the wars are one great resource, the mined haciendas another to say noth- : ing of the peons, who, having no saving banks, are in the habit of burying their earnings in the ground." I "All that has a fascinating sound; but von ppeak in a skeptical way." " "I have had my fair go at those elusive I boards; I will admit that Capt. Perez and I have set out in search of more than one of them?" . . "And you don't believe they exist.' "Oh, I suppose one might, after infinite in-finite pains, get a few beggarly thou- i sands. The chances are about a good uj in playing in the Havana lottery. 1 wre was a chance for destiny to aid a person who very much needed it. but she by no means embraced it I have aspirations," he went on, throwing some singular inflection in-flection into his tone that was more than humor; "I want an incredible sum: nc mere ordinary affluence will do for me. "Such moderation is really quit aston- "shi"?-" , , J "It may surprise you to know that 1 often go about with a head full of unpractical un-practical ideas. I want to go deeper than the deepest mine. Look at the earth lying below us, dark. maave. untouched un-touched for thousands of mile thre is a subject to strike th imagination. W e have reached to the stars and gone down into the sea. why can we not go down i thither?" . i "Yes, it is impressive, truly; that oaric interior has often seemed to me th greatest of all our mysteries." j "We hav gone down perhap a pica- ; yune half mile at most, as against some four thpjsaad in aB. LOrcam of atnd: 1 |