Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-07-07

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gallant as any knight of old to the res
! cue Of his lady, armed, equipped. bot
] ed and spurred.
Being a gentleman Of wealth, ne was
person of authority in the hotel. lie
| occupied a room looking out on the
Jungfrau, while her window gave upon
some obscure green mountain whose
name was hardly worth mentioning.
He drank fine wines at dinner-white
wines and red. The servants bowed
down before him, and the proprietor
upon the event OF his starting for the
ascent OF some gigantic hill the bum
NIT Of which looked down on clouds,
handed him his alpenstock. which
when not In use hung from a shining
hook in the hall.
When he had spoken those few well
come words in her native tongue, he
bent benevolent blue eye on Kitty and
observed her awhile.
you look pale" he said. Il think
humph-that it's because you don't
drink the wine. Why-humph-dont
you drink the wine?"
The question was more pointed than
he thought. Upon so short an &C
quaintance it was impossible for Kitty
to explain that, though her room looked
out on a snowless and green mountain
not any too high, the price thereof was
of such height as to practically ex-
clude the consumption of wines, white,
red or otherwise. So. with a smile and
an answering glance at the benevolent
blue eye, she replied:
"In America we rarely drink wine,
we women" quite as II that were the
only reason why.
'tHumph." Take little with me, he
insisted, and for fear of being classed
with those violent prohibition women
who go about with angry temperance
ribbons slashed from shoulder to belt;
partly, too, because the wine was white
and bubbled in the glass, she took sip
and still another sip until 1t came to be
that she regularly assisted The Gentle
man in the drinking of his wine every
night at dinner and oftentimes at
o'clock at dejeuner
head waitpess-the gentleman called
her "Fraulein an unconscionable
thing. Kitty's plate had been laid for
her dessert; The Gentleman's had not;
seing which, the fraulein snatched her
plate and placed it with elaborate eour-
tesy before The Gentleman. This may
have been due to the. fact that, though,
according to Kitty's ideas of prices, she
was paying more than enough for that
room of hers, The Gentleman-well, it
was difficult to say just what he was
paying for his looking as 1t did straight
out on to the Alpine glow, but Kitty,
unduly sensitive, perhaps, laid it to the
fact that she was suspected of being
whatever that was they suspected her
OF being. With light laugh and
shrug of her shoulders, she passed 1t by,
but The Gentleman tared in amaze
ment. He not only stared, he blazed
up in her defense.
"Fraulein," he cried. in voice that
startled his neighbors thereabout, why
did you do that? Put the plate back at
once and serve this lady first"
1t was good then to see the meekness
with which the franlein put the plate
back and filled it, The Gentleman
watching to see that the matter was
conducted exactly to suit his taste, and
not unit, Kitty had been helped abund-
antly to cream and cake and to tiny
CONNECTIONS likewise, wrapped In paper
OF tissue and silver that glittered did
he wait on himself.
From that moment he who was a per-
sonage of importance constituted him
self the friend of the friendless Kitty,
who was a parsonage OF no importance
at all. He watched over her; he pro-
tected her. Smoothing out the rough
places, he made the path pleasant for
her in small ways and In great.
He demanded that the fraulein serve
their first breakfast out on the veranda,
from which the early view of the Jung
frau was something calculated to take
away the breath-Kitty had hitherto
been excluded from this precious priv
ilege, accorded only to the more
wealthy OF the guests-and thereafter
each morning found they duly instated
in large wicker chairs before round
white table, worshiping, while the fes-
tive bees from out the man-high holly
hoes on the walk swarmed into their
honey and rescued themselves with diff
ficulty, only to drown ANONYMOUSLY
later on in the dark brown depths Of
their coffee cups.
An inveterate climber, he made up
parties for long walks up high noun
tains, ordering their lunch in a manner
which exacted obedience swift footed
and prompt.
He escorted them up the bucketlike
funicular at Beatenberg and led the
way back home over II miles Of noun
tain road which fortunately descended