The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-05
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A Ghost Story in Three Parts.

I ly as each Of the departing guests had
but a short time before expressed re-
neWed delight with the hotel and its
surroundings. Several of them had stat
ed to the proprietor that they had aban-
doned their intention Of proceeding
further with their Swiss tour, so
satisfied we're they with Thun and all
its belongings. Thus did the hattering
opinion of Alexander Won Humboldt
seem about TO become general, to the
great delight of the hotel proprietor,
when without warning, these young
men had gloomily deserted Thun,
while its beauty undoubtedly remained
unchanged. Naturally the good man
who owned the hotel was bewildered,
and began to think that, after all. the
English were an uncertain, mind
changing race.
Among the guests there was one
young fellow who was quite as much
peTpleXeQ as the proprietor. Archie
Severance was one Of the last to TAIL
under the spell of Bessie, if indeed it
is correct to speak OF Archie falling
at all. He was very deliberate young
man, not given to doing anything pre-
cipitously, but there is no doubt that
the charming personality of Bessie
fascinated him, although he seemed
to content himself with admiring her
at distance. Bessie somehow did not
seem TO care about being admired from
q distance, and once when Archie was
promenading back and forth on the
terrace above the river she smiled
sweetly at him from her book and he
sat down beside her. Jimmy Wellman
had gone that morning, and the rest
had not yet found it out. Jimmy had
so completely monopolized Miss Du-
rand for the last few days that no one
else had had a chance, but now that
he had departed, Bessie sat alone on
the terrace which was most unusual
state of things.
They tell me-" said Bessie in her
most fattering maner, that you are
a famous climber, and that you have
been to the top of the Matterhorn.'
oh not famous; far from it, said
Archie modestly. Il have been up the
Matterhorn three or four times, but
then women and children make that
ascent nowadays so that is nothing
unusual"
II am sure you must have had some
thrilling escapes, continued Bessie,
looking with admiration at Arches
stalwart frame. Mr.. Wellman had
an awful experience-"
HYesterday?'' interrupted Archie. Il
hear he left early this morning"
NO not yesterday" said Miss Du-
rand coldly, drawing herself up with
some indignation, but as she glanced
sideways at Mr.. Severance, that
young man seemed so innocent that
she thought perhaps he meant moth
ing in particular by his remark. SO
after a slight pause Bessie went on
again. 1T was a week ago He was
climbing the Stockholm and all at
once the clouds surrounded him.
And what did Jimmy do? Waited
till the clouds rolled by 1 suppose"
Now Mr.. Severance. if you are go
ing to laugh at me, 1 shall not talk
to you any more"
L assure you Miss Durand, was
not laughing at you. 1 was laughing
at Jimmy. never regarded the Stock |
horn as a formidable peak. 1t is some !
thing like 7,195 feet high 1 believe, not
to mention the inches
But surely Mr.. Severance, you
know very well that the danger OF a
mountain does not necessarily bear
any proportion to its altitude above
the sea-"
THAT is very true. I am sure that I
Jimmy himself. with his head in the /
clouds, has hraved greater dangers at !
much lower levels than the top of the !
Stockholm
Again Miss Durand looked search !
ingly at the young man beside her. |
DuL again AIcIlls was gazing QreaNnlly |
at the curious bell-shaped summit of
the mountain under discussion. The |
Stockholm stands out nobly head and
shoulders above it's fellows. when
viewed from the hotel terrace at Thun. |
There was silence for a few moments
between the two, and Bessie said to
herself that she did not at all like this
exceedingly Self-possessed young man
who seemed to look at the mountains
in preference to gazing at her: which !
was against the natural order of !
things. 1t was evident that Mr.. Sever
ance needed to be taught a lesson, and |
Bessie, who had a good deal of justifi- !
able confidence in her own powers as
a teacher. resolved to give him the (
necessary instruction. Perhaps, when |
he had acquired little more expert !
ence he would not speak so con
temptuously of Jimmy" or any of !
the rest. Besides it is always a gener- |
Gus action towards the rest of hui /
mainly to reduce the inordinate self |
esteem of any one young man to I
something like reasonable proportions /
So Bessie. instead of showing that |
she was offended by his hippant con-
versation and his lack of devotion to |
her, put on her most bewitching man
ner and smiled the smile that SO many