The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-02-17
The GUIDE AND
THE TOURIST
[Original.l


was rather young for a guide being |
only twenty-five, and many people be-
lieved that he did not take sufficient
care in crossing dangerous places, but
all admitted that he was brave and
that his impulses were noble. Jean
lived at Chamounix, right in among
the mountains, and loved Clochette, the
daughter of Antoine Defour, who kept
little inn in the valley below. Clio
Ghetto, as soon as she saw Jean, lived
only for him. They were to be mar
ried as soon 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 5000 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 own 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 and reported that when
| they were passing an almost perpen-
! dicular point Jean had slipped. the rope
| had broken and Jean had fallen into
] the crevasse. The tourist showed the
rope. which had evidently been broken
midway between him and his guide
/ There was no doubt that it had broken,
| for the edge was frayed.
.'That was Just like Jean" every one
! said, ito go out with an imperfect rope
He was always careless. Then. too, he
| did not stop to cut his steps properly.
But he was good fellow. a brave fell
low, and if either he or another was
to go into the crevasse he would prefer
| to be the one to 60.
From the moment the Englishman
returned without Jean. Clochette was
| changed. He said he was rich and Of
| fered her pension. But Clochette
would not have it. Her father endeay-
ored to persuade her to accept 1t, but
| she still declined, and when her father
asked her to give her reasons she told
him that she did not believe the Eng
| lishman's story. THAT is woman
| reason.'' replied her father. what OBJ
| iect would he have in lying? And does
not the frayed end of the rope plainly
show that it was broken?' To this
Clochette 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 pc
coming a marked man in his country
He was a lord, though he had not traF-
eled as such, and had married the
daughter of q duke He was honored
for his talents. but since his mishap
in the Alps he had worn melancholy
mfen. and no one could induce him to
sneak of the adventure. Letters came
from him from time to time TO old De
fonr asking if Clochette had not re-
Tented and would accept handsome
pension. the amount of which grew
with every letter. Still she declined.
Years rolled by Clochette never mar
r;od She had other suitors. but her
answer to them all was, Il am waiting
for Jean, But you can never have
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
the poor girls brain had been turned
nv her sorrow and press her no fur
: | fhor. Anu SO AlO(ISbtC eAN" ~
400 and when her father died she kept
the inn.
One spring she heard that at a point
down the valley the glacier had broken
and revealed 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 hahd
! and started to see this body Wheh
, she arrived, lying on block OF Ice
near where he was found, she saw the
lost Jean. There was the same lthe
figure, the same dark wavy hair, the
features of a young man of twenty
two. And there, too, was something
uDon which Clochette kept her eyes
; fixed, seemingly without the power &c
withdraw 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
+ Jean and were not aware whose body
Law before them till Clochette TOLD
= them. The first thing she did was tc
, take the rope from the waist. which
: she kept in her own possession. The
body was laid away, and as there were
! very few people near by who haC
f known Jean its finding attracted little
attention.
+ A week later the tourist who hac
been with Jean twenty years before
I received Il package by express. open
ing it. he took out a rope, tied as i
\ would be about a mans body, one enc
a of Which had been cut with SHARP
: knife
From that day the man, who ha6
= heen long rising in the governmental