The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-05-11
CHAPTER H.
fJiE ASCENT or THE ROCKY AUToGHAT OF

Miss Florence Rodney, having mads
Up her mind ~ strongly m sbo eouId
that she would senle The Matterborb
Get about u systematically from The be
ginning Her feeling ihnt she eould d'
II was bnsa,l on the tnet tbnt two ~
three women had done II She WINS IN
perfect physical condition. her boart,
lungs, legs md arms MI that a bnDlihs
wDmnD could desire, md she WA mol
affected with vertigo from heights
First, she bound Der uncle to secrecy
abont the mnttar a yassar womAD
professor wHs going 20 obnporoD three
or four girls Oh n European "trip md
Miss Rodney arranged 10 30 With them
She took long wake, laed 10 20 10
some of the towering bindings Ia Now
York and walk np tbo woarisomo flights
0f stairs 10 The very top nDd prneijon1
In u RymDDainm TIVE op tbpno hONrs n
day With dnmbballs and Oh a trnppSn
Sbo mnde u eoDllDut Of DR. klmbnll
who, after one professional dnly protest
against ", entered INTO lbo i1oD enough
10 give her the full benefit of bin nX
parioDeo md advice ll0 suggested
what gDidos sbo b0l bosl secure, which
'wDy 10 bake up Tho lordly Deak, whore
10 stDy md bow much things would
cost Der Uncle Josiah gave her nbOul
tho amount TINT be DrgDed she wODj1
spend NJ homo, md Misc Rodney boz
rDwod somA moro from Two ~ thpee
friends,
When Miss Rodney g0t 10 Paris, she
parted from tho vDaaDr professor md
party under The preIegt lbnt she bad
to meet u friend IN switzerland The
fri0Dd wns tho MDlieyborD bnt ibis
Miss Rodney dld not explain W bar old
telnb0r
The yoDDg gipI soon Rftap found her
sDlf NJ Montrons From tbep0 she went
W Vtep md roWpined ibpl night The
nest day she took u mule and rode W
w w. MM!!s4!!aaH9a An4 lgrem there Ia A anrglnge
TO Nerm2t Az o0eb pdyapeo her beprt
boat faster She WIS approaching the
rocky nptOprnt " tho Alps whose abnpp
pepk, 1900 feet IN th6 MIR, soomed to
await thu coming NJ tho adventurous
Girl with silent diadpiD Sometimes her
heart misgDye her Thop pbe bAd 10 fHll
hnok on aDeh rDyiyars VI her detormlDD
ton ~ tbo hODgbt 0f wbpl Uncle
Joalah'a %peraDpi0l aeopD and delight IN
her discontinue wonId DO " she fDiIo1
Bio also fortified borsO)g with tbo reool.
lection ~ Miss Dpoyoort u Nav York
w0mOn, HE blrHo|f who had gloriIal
her Bes by pDtllDg The t0p Of Tho Mat
terh0rD under bep foal IN 1871, md of
VelioltD Oprrel, The daughter VI a gDldo,
W DO snre, bnl u girl who bnd scaled
tbp s0nrlDg 1r0Hl of ibis r~0lonbtNbln
Mont earyln " lbey aopld DO u, why
not she9
Nils nolppy etnld ~ tbo Hotel Mont
IN nprmntt She peoDrai tbe
SERVICES ~ lhn twO most celebrated and
gpldey fop me attempt sbo
p0pld g1t, paying them 100 frames for
nppnnt Some delay wAg Dp0nsaupy
waiting for wonlhpp lbDt wDDld bp AA
propitlops ~ posi- bic When snob y dry
md lho gnldpp announced their
~ atnpL Miss Rodney, NJ
MOI . pporaspadly Religions girl,
FnU ~ hnr kDA1B IN her room nD1
Win simple napDaetDess lhntY lh0
lord Wh0 mu1D The mountain wGnld
lalp hor w apnlp W. Tb1n with Il ppIl
Y beptlng hpprl she started on Der NJ
ynMpt IN R0t OD0 moro poLllpopt victory
the MpltnrhOpD llNp rosy checks
we're sllshtV b|Apobad bnt tho color "
ny, VIII wOs mob
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h0 righl NJ lhn Corner glpeIpr Before
ong hoy lnQoho1 \ via and rooly Alb
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IN monntnln bowl 5000 rpnl above !
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