Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-07-07
eoeon,orn 1901, BY ZOE ANDERSON n.onpus)

1t was the height of the season, tn
Alpine glow was in the Jungfran, an
the town was filled to oyerfiowing witt
Kitty Ogden, alone-that is, without en-
cumbrances other than two satcbels, Al
alpenstock, an umbrella and camera
arrived at Interlaken and impioIe 40
mittance at hotel.
Now, Kitty, who throughout Switzer
land had been passed like a precious
parcel from pension to pension by anx
ious and affectionate friends. was no
aware of the fact that at public hotel
in that country it is different. There
as a rule, those of the feminine gender
who voyage seuie Gravel alone) are Sc
down as either imposters or Americans
After some years of residence abroad
Kitty had unhappily lost that distinct.
i've air which sets one splendidly apart
as an American and gives her the right
to travel alone in Switzerland or other
where Whether it was her gown-sim-
pie enough in all conscience, but Pari-
sian--or her hat, her manner Of dress
ing her hair or her shoes that had done
away with it she found 1t impossible to
say, but 1t was gone. She felt certain
sense of desolation at its loss, which
was destined to be increased. On her
Journey she had been taken for French
for Italian, for Egyptian. and one Span
lard who talked with her between two
stations had dubbed her so persistently
"senoritap that she had fallen to pictur-
ing herself indolently reclining upon a
much bepillowed couch lavishly embroi-
dered in old, raised gold, with a black
mantilla and gorgeous. slowly waving
fan, but never once had been taken for
American.
Found lacking in the American stamp
the was therefore an impostor.
Women are not so destitute of that
lntuitive faculty which leads them to
know what people think as the world
at large is led to suppose and Kitty, be-
fore she had passed the night at Inter-
laken, was quite as much alive to the
fact that she was suspected of being an
impostor-a petty thief, perhaps, or u
downright burglar, with deadly mid
night lantera concealed in the depths of
her valise-as she was to the fact that
she was not.
1t seemed that she was not the only
one suspected. Confronting her, nailed
upon the walls of her room, were three
separate notices in as many different
languages TO the effect that the guests
must guard their yaluables, bewaring
not so much of the servants employed,
whose characters were guaranteed, as
of their fellow guests, whose charac-
tiers were not guaranteed. Though the
reading of these gave her some little
comfort, it failed to cure entirely her
individual hurt, which was of such a
nature that, what with the supercillious
glances of the tall and thin haired mis-
tress, the inattention of the head wait
ress, Dutch girl who had assumed an
air of proprietorship equal if not SUI
perior to that of the proprietor himself,
to say nothing of the neglect of the
maid who cleaned up her room come
where about the middle of the after
noon, Notwithstanding the overflled
condition of the hotels and her innate
consciousness that under the existing
circumstances she should have consid-
cred herself fortunate in having found
any sort of place to lay her head, she
Vas covertly looking about her for an
other location when the Gentleman
came. took seat next her at table and
spoke to her in English-English faint
ed somewhat by rich Germanic ac-
cent. but English.
He was old. The Gentleman, he was
gray, and experimenting the German
accent was strange and peculiar malt
that was occasionally distressing But
from the first Kitty called him py his