The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-07-30
TO WE'D ON MOUNTAIN
English Girl viii Marry Her FL
ance on Lofty Nevada Peak.
ROMANCE OF LONG STANDING


Years Ago, Slapped His Face In
Youthful FroIie For Daring to Kiss
Her.
Miss Lille Edith Bergman of Gwi-
near, Cornwall, England, who recently
arrived at New York on the American
liner New York, left the next day for
Reno, New, where she is to marry
Thomas Penzance Nichols, an old
sweetheart whom she first met under
romantic circumstances, says the New
York Times. The young woman is the
daughter Of Edward Bergman, an
English mining engineer. Her romance
began on st. Mlchael's mount in Corn
wall and will eliminate when the
young couple are married on Wheeler's
peak, Nevada, 1906 feet above sea
level.
Miss Bergman is the picture Of Ma
belle Gilman now Mrs. Corey, and
during the voyage from Southampton
some Of her fellow travellers insisted
on calling her Miss Gilman, greatly to
her annoyance. Miss Mary G.. Mich
oils, a relative of her fiance, met her
at the pier, and she went to Miss Mich
oils home In New York. She started
on her trip to the west, smiling and
happy. Nichols will meet his bride to
be at Reno, and together they will as
cend Wheeier's peak to be married on
the summit
Much of the country about Lands
End, England, Is In the estate of Lord
st. Levan. On fine days the grounds
are thrown open, and the young people
go there for their holiday. One June
afternoon sixteen years ago party Of
girls were spending the afternoon on
st. Michael's mount when a crowd of
boys, many of them just entering their
teens, came along. Among them was
sandy haired Thomas Nichols. They
selected their playground near where
the girls were having good time, and
the cricket game soon lost interest.
Within an hour boys and girls were
playing together. The fun waxed fast,
and some boy said to Nichols, who
had been romping with a slim young
girl with chestnut hair, II dare you
to kiss that girl"
Young Nichols would not take the
dare and undertook to kiss his play
mate A stinging blow ON the cheek
was his reward, and soon after the
party broke up.
Some years later Nichols came to
this country, and, going west, he made
comfortable fortune and became a
mining operator A year ago last
March he went back to Penzanee.
where he was brought up
One day while on the main street OF
Gwinear he suddenly grabbed a com
panion's arm and asked, Jack, tell me
who Is that pretty girl coming down
the street,
"Whlch-the red haired oneT" asked
Jack.
''No; the tall, slim girl with the
brown dress and the mass of chestnut
hair" said the excited mining man.
"Why, that's Miss Bergman, the girl
you tried to kiss"
Within two weeks after this chance
meeting on the street Nichols had
been introduced to Miss Berryman, and
two months later he returned to Amer
len with Miss Berryman's promise to
come over within II year and marry
him
Nichols wanted Miss Bergman to
marry him on st. Mlchaers mount.
where they first met. and return to
America as his Wife, She declared
that she could not wed then.
Il cannot marry now" said the
girl, and, MS you are now an Amer.
lean and have to go back to your bust
ness l will promise you that within
n year will come to America and. In
stead of st, Michaers mount, I'll mar
ry YOU on the highest mountain In
America you choose"
And this is why Miss Bergman
came over in the cabin of the New
York and why she and the young min
ing man are to be married on the sum
nit vt Wheeler's peak,
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