The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-22
HE WAS TEMPTED AND HE FELL.

When MT. Won Blumer Went to lH- snect the Mountain Hotel Ills wire Was Not Idle.
 1T have just recevide circular from the Rock Peak hotel" said Von bluli- CT. "and 1t seems mighty attractive. It LID in the Catskills, and it might pc good place for us to spend our Vaca- t,on. You know we haven't been to the mountains for some time.
 "Didn't you get booklet from the ocean Front?" asked Mrs. Von Blumer "you know we liked it down there so much last year. and l think, after all, I prefer the seashore. There's nothlhs much better than the Jersey coast, ana the Ocean Front Is such a. nice hotei. We know all about it, and we dont know a thing about this other place you mention ,
 "Of course the Ocean Front is nice, said Won Blumer. Why shouldn't IL pc nice at the prices they charge? why if cost us $15 day all the time we were there last year. It's to much! l cant afford it. Now the Rock Peak
 "The Rock Peak" said Mrs. Won Rlumer. Ifs cheaper, of course, or you
  for me. don't believe in trying any experiments. I'd rather stay at nome.
 That is exactly the way l feel about l it." said Von Blumer. But listen - and he read aloud from the circular "'The Rock Peak Is situated lSoo rect above the sea level and commands a superb view for thirty miles up and down the Hudson Valley. The rooms are large and airy, with all modern lm- movements, and the cuisine is acknowl- edged to be unsurpassed. Prices from s19 to s90 per week. What do you think | of that?'
 "You can't tell anything from the circular" said Mrs. Blumer. "of course not" said Won Blumer, "but now I'm coming to my point. We've been in rut to long, ana at the same time I don't want to subject you to any discomfort, as I know how you hate cheap hotels. What I propose to do is to run up to the Rock Peak-it's only three hours away-for day or so, and find out just what sort of a place lii is. If it's all right, as I firmly be- lieve. I'll come back and get you! what do you say?"
 Mrs. von Blumer pondered for some lime before she replied. She knew her husband pretty well, and there was al ways an undercurrent of suspicion whenever he proposed anything un- usual. At the same time, his proposi- tion was so considerate of her that she could raise no real objection to it
 "You'n come right back?" she said al 
 1 last.
 "certainly,' replied Won Blumer eTm simply going up there on youl account. I want to make sure US the right place for you. I can't run up to- morrow afternoon.
 "well-all right" said Mrs Von Blu mer. somewhat doubtfully.
 It was two weeks lateE Von Blumer on his way from his office, where ne yfad stopped for a few moments on ms arrival in the city from the Rock Peak hotel was sitting in an electric car homeward bound.
 The enormity of his offense mad no fully occurred to him before-so pus' had he been--but now that ne Was s' near home, it burst upon him with 1ui force. He had promised to come rlgh hack and had been gone two weeks!
 Well, the Rock Peak was perhap' not all that could be desired. But h' lbad not been there "A hours before h' knew everyone in the hotel lie wa surrounded wherevr he went by peV! of charming young girls. His cour apeous protestations that he was married man had no effect. He was man. and that was enough to this ga! Rock Peak crowd-on week days ne wa' tha only man. At evry suggestion O his that he must return, he was tn only man. At every suggestion or m that he must return, he was greete' with q storm of outcries And what gorpeous time he did have, rowing pic nicl,inu and frolic1ing! It took mn mack to his college days.
 The second day he had written to hi wife that he was not fully sat1sne with the hotel-that he would have t s+av longer and find out more. The later that he would have to make sur of the people there-and so on throug