The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-10-10
THE GUIDE AND
THE TOURIST
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only twenty-five. and many people be
lieved hat he did not take sufficient
care in crossing dangerous places, but
all admitted hat he was brave and
that his impulses We're noble. Jean
lived at ~Chamounix, right in among
the mountains, and loved Clochette, the
daughter of Antoine Defour, Who kept
a little inn in the valley below. Clio
only for him. They were to be mar
ried as 500 as Jean could accumulate
5000 francs. 1t could not be sooner
because Defour would give his daugh-
ter to no one who possessed less, and
Jean had only 1900 francs.
One day an Englishman came to
Chamounix and asked for a guide.
There are many guides" said the per-
son Of whom he inquired, having diff
ferent requirements. If you wish one
who will give his w life for yours in
case of necessity | would recommend
Jean Carrier" This was enough. Jean
was engaged, and the two started to
climb one of the smaller peaks.
The next day the stranger came back
without Jean INC reported hat when
they We're passing an almost perpen
dicular point Jean had slipped, the rope
had broken and Jean had fallen into
the c~reyasse. The tourist showed the
rope, which had evidently been broken
midway between him and his guide.
There was no doubt that 1t had broken,
for the edge was frayed.
THAT was just like Jean" every one
said, Ito go out with an imperfect rope
He vas always careless. Then, too, he
did not stop to cut his steps properly.
But he was a good fellow, a brave fel-
low. and if either he or another was
to go into the crevasse he would prefer
to be the II TO GO"
From the moment the Englishman
returned without Jean, Clochette was
changed. He said he was rich and Of
fered her q pension. But ClOchette
would not ha We 1t. Her father endeav-
ored to persuade her to accept it, but
she still declined, and when her father
asked her to give her reasons she told
him that she did believe the Eng
hshman's story. THAI Is a woman's
reason." replied her father. What OBJ
ject would he have in lying? And oes
not the frayed end of the rope plainly
show thai it was broken| To this
CIochette had no reply. but she would
not accept the pension.
On more than one occasion tourists
came to the valley who talked about
the case Of the Englishman who had
lost his guide and spoke Of him as be-
coming d marked man in his country.
He was a lord, though he had not trav-
as such, and had married the
daughter Of a duke. He vas honored
for his talents, but since his mishap
i'll the Alps ne had worn a melancholy
mien, and no one could induce him to
speak of the adventure. Letters came
from him from time to time TO old De
four asking if Clochette had not re-
and would accept a handsome
the amount of which grew
every letter. Still b declined
Years rolled by. Clochette never mar
ried. She had other suitors, but her
to them all was, Il am waiting
LOT J6dH. buL 1Oo Noh wv A0'~
lean in this world. He Is dead" He
will come to me to tell me how he met
his death" At this they would think
Door girls brain had been turned
by her sorrow and press her no fur
Their. And so Clochette grew to middle
and when her father died she kept
inn.
One spring she heard that at a point
Town the valley the glacier had broken
and revealed a dead body. perfect as
when it had been frozen In the Ice
twenty years before. She threw down
q toasting fork she held In her hand
and started to see this body. When
she arrived, lying on a block OF Ice
near where he was found, she saw the
lost Jean. There was the same 1.-the
igure, the same dark wavy hair, the
of a young man OF twenty
two. And there, too, was something
Upon which Clochette kept her eyes
liked, seemingly without the power TO
them. Around the waist was
the climbers rope, and but twelve
inches from the body the end showed
plainly that it had been cut.
Those who stood about had not known
and were not aware whose body
before them till Clochette old
The first thing b lie was to
AXE the rope from the waist. which
The kept in her own possession. The
body was laid away. and as there were
7ery few people near by who had
Jean its finding attracted little
attention.
A week later the tourist who had
been with Jean twenty years before
a package by express. Open
ng it. he took out Il rope, tied as 1t
would be about a mans body, one end
If which had been u with a sharp
Inife.
From that day the man, who had
)eeu long rising in the governmental
lffairs of his country and who was
ooked upon as one soon to become his
leader, withdrew from public
life and went int a retirement from
which he was never afterward drawn.
On Jeans body vas found a letter