Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-04-17

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BIT could she name tie day. think
youp Nor she.
0hl / don't know. she always ans
wered baahfully. WelL then. she
added on this particular evening. SAY
il six months time.
aOh! dearest we don't know what
might happen before then. said Frank.
somewhat thoughtfully
Frank de Vaud was right
.But. be said. remember, darling,
I'll claim you to tho very day. So Be
ready.
Frank de Vaud was out almost
every day il che mountains a very
daring hunter. bel And very success
ful one too. His gun, though. was not
much to look At: It had many little e.
centricities. but IS Frank knew them
all. and made allowance for them, be
wouldn't have given that old gun for
noe worth double the money.
One beautiful afternoon, when high
above the mountains. he shot up 4
channels long way down beneath
him. It was no easy task to reach II.
but he succeeded at last. He sat
down beside it. He liz bis pipe, and
began to dream and build castles in
the air. or, If he did not build castles,
he imagined one sweet little chalet,
which would be al bis and Hullol
was that . shout from this crevasse
far far belowe He listened. Yes.
there il was again. ringing and clear.
though, owing TO the distance. no loud
er than the voice Of midget.
"Helpl Helpl Coo-ee Help Help
De Yaud looked over the ledge and
saw dark figure in the snow.
"IEullol' he shouted. "I'll 60 back
for assistance. Keep up your heart.
Wait"
And away went Frank. leaving his
gun beside che slain deer.
"Wait. indeedI' growled little Mr..
Poddlesby to himself. "I'Il haze to
waltz What fool ! was to come away
without . guidel shall lose good
dinner, tool"
little Mr.. PoddIesby hailed from
Ealing, where he had a tine house and
AL kinds Of fine things. his uncle hay-
ing died heirless. and left him wealthy.
SO Poddlesby required to be clerk no
longer IN the city. he determined to
See the world
Al very vulgar. self-conceited little
fellow. I'm sorry to say. was POddles-
by. He had had an idea, even when q
poor clerk, that he was rather attract
i've than otherwise to the fair sex, but
now that he had riches. he deemed
himself irresistible. He joined an Al
pine club. and it used to be bis boast
that he never required q guide
Hence we ind him at the bottom Of
the creyasse. where. had he not been
found by Frank de Vaud. he would
certainly have persisted before morn
ing. and become food for the eagles.
n three hours time Frank was
back with assistance, and Poddlesby
was safe, but more dead than alive
He was then carried to the nearest
chalet, the goat-herd's, where pretty
Johanna lived.
"I'Il be as fresh as q daisy to-mor-
row. said little Poddlesby IS they put
him I'd bed.
But he was not so. He was down
with . fever, and for weeks he lay
'tWixt death and life. When al last
he became convalescenk nothing could
exceed the kindness Of Johanna's pa-
rents to him, nor. indeed, Of johanna
herself
'But Of course I shall pay them well
for Il. said POddlesby to himself.
But vas this gratitude. readerp !
trOw not
P0ddlesby was somewhat surprised
when. on bidding bis host and hostess
good-by. the crisp hank note he tried
% slip into the hand of the latter was
firmly but respectfully declined