The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-21

looks as IL he would like to punch my
head for being there.
"No; haven't the pleasure of know
ing this gentleman" he Gays, putting on
q sickly smile.
"Whatl" cries the other "Ah! Then
that is the friend you will meet" point
ing to Mr. Firth, who, at that moment,
unwittingly comes out of the recess of
| his window.
"No; I haven't the pleasure of know
ing him either"
For a minute the Frenchman does not
seem to understand. But. you all live
in the same. house,l" he then says slowly.
80, yes," replies. Mr.. Bolt, who be-
gins to see the fun, and seems rather to
enjoy it-:'all lived there, Il believe, for
"And you are all strangers?'',
''Perfect strangers, again replies Mr..
Bolt
"Well, should not have thought it
possible, even ir England" says the lit
tlo fellow, SO seriously that we all smile.
He looks first at one and then at an
other, and finally rushes off to tell his
! friends of the three curios sites that he
| had discovered
Our smiles vanish with his presence,
and the moment ho is gone our black
looks return. Mr.. Bolt goes off to the
third window; Mr.. Firth returns to his
recess; remain in mine; so we NIL stand
and stare at Mont Blanc.
Every fine," says Mr.. Firth, being
obliged to pass me in leaving the room,
and feeling that he ought to say some
thing.
every fine,"I answer; and SO exits
the ground floor"
Clocks very beautiful in the moon
light" L suggested to Mr. Bolt, as I fol-
low Mr.. Frith's example.
Every beautiful" he answers, but
does not leave his window as long as I
remain in the room, though his dinner
is on the table and the garcon waiting to
remove the cover. Then I go, and, after
that, we meet NO more that night.
The next morning am not as careful
of my landlords feelings, perhaps, as I
might be. I hardly proffer an excuse
for leaving. but leave do, and take up
my quarters in another hotel. That set
tied, I go to the post Office, thence to
the Bureau des Guides, and on my way
thither, after q good deal of considering
this and looking at that, decide upon
the excursion for that day. L choose the
one to lie Jardin," arguing that it was
too far for MIR. Firth, and that Mr. Bolt,
who evidently had not visited Chamouni
before, was not likely to do that excur-
sion on his first day. Pretty confident,
therefore, that I should not be troubled
with either of them, I hire O guide and
start at once to make up for lost time.
"Pity didn't start an hour ago."
"Why?" say to Pierre-Pierre being
my guide-as we 60 up the zigzags of
the Montanvert.
Because Jacques went with another
English gentleman, and. it would have
been company for us" answers Pierre.
[ express myself quite satisfied with
the companionship l have, and Pierre,
of course, swears that he was thinking
of me only and not of himself. When
we reach the glacier we, see the gentle
man of whom he spoke, but he is too far
ahead for me to distinguish him.
Feeling sure, however, that he is
neither Mr.. Firth nor Mr.. Bolt, I don't
bother my head about him. AS we go
along Pierre tells me long story about
some Of his comrades. He speaks vii
lainous pdtOiS, and has q confused way of
telling his story; and so, though do my
best to be enlightened, am never GER
tain whether am supposed to be Jean
or Alphonse; in fact, cant. make out
whether jean and Alphdnse are two dis
tinct men, or the two names of the same
man. Jean falls down crevasse; L un-
derstand that; but then it is Alphonse
who is afterwards pulled up, so L get
hopelessly muddled again. And, more
over, 1 can't suficiently:realize that 1 am
either of them, for, as we near "Le JAR
din," my own legs keep cruelty remind
ing me that 1 am Alfred Hay and nobody
else; and 1 find myself painting in way
that either Jean or Alphonse would be
ashamed of doing.
"Ah, VOLTA jacques" exclaims Pierre,
as we step on to the grass at our jour
ney's end pointing to his comrade. who
rises from the side of the stream over
which he was STOPPING look round
for the Englishman, but he is not visible.
jacques, when he comes to us. points to
great boulder of rock behind which,
ha aova tho other is 1vinp rather knock-