Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-12-22
L'Eau Noire.

broken" Where is his guidef" And
his arm, too" "Can he lives" These
were the exclamation in the French Of
the Cation, which 10 not at all the French
of Paris, that recalled to consciousness
"Mr. james Clayton Rsdford," as the
card in his pocketbook showed. A dozen
country people were gathered about him,
and dozen different plans were proposed
for the "poor stranger" as they called
him, whose dripping clothes and bleed
ing wounds showed at once that he had
fallen into the water, and been seriously
injured in the fall. It was at length de-
cided that he should be carried to the
nearest chalet, and the doctor from LAT
Qentiere be summoned. The nearest, and
q it happened, the best, chalet was that
of Jean 'Couttel. While the doctor was
coming as rapidly a. bad road would per-
NIT, let 10 say how Mr.. James Clayton
came to be there. and in such pitiable cir
cumstances. We can tell his story bet
ter and faster than he could, a. he lies in
the best room of the Couttel chalet, with
the only woman in the family doing for
him all that could be done by womanly
instinct, often in requisition in those far
of valleys in the absence OF a doctor.
James Clayton was the son of pros
porous Yorkshire manufacturer, who,
when alpaca stuffs came into favor, q
quarter Of . century ago, rose from q
small to . great mill-owner. His son
was brought up to his fathers business,
and wisely meant to stay in it, and profit
by the name, the capital, and the expe-
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truth . sensible, honest, manly young
Englishman, not ashamed Of the "trade"
which made him, and not afraid Of miss
ing, by being in II, the consideration
yielded to . gentleman" He had been
in the habit of spending his short autumn
vacation in the Tyrol, or the Bernese
Oberland. This time he made Geneva
his starting point, recalling, in the vale
of Chamcuny, Coleridge's magnificent
lines. He meant to reach the valley Of
the Rhone, by the usual route, for one or
two roads now used had not then been
opened. He thought guide useless, and
believed he knew we'll enough the noun
tain horses to make his own safe and
leisurely way. 1t was easy to forget his
horse. On the right was q magnificent
glacier. . To the left the tops of the Bre-
vent and the Flegers arrested tho eye, as
he turned again and again to take . look
at the snow of Mont Blanc, and wonder
if he ought not at least to have gone up
- far a. the Grands Mulets. Below him,
at brief intervals, the ground fell away
into gOrges, of which the bottom was
made visible By the white, boiling tor.
rent. One can easily become secure in
such Q place, while ones horse 10 becom-
ing tired and unsteady. How it was be
could not himself tell. He was aware Of
Q cracking noise, - of . piece of break
ing timber, Of . fall, and his next con-
scsossso vas that Of being tended kind
~ By . girl, whose ealy language was
thaf IL IL eye, and Who seemed to be the
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