The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-01-16
4 Will Send Her :


De Witt Merriam, after taking many
honors at college, having a fortune al
his disposal, buried his talents in q
napkin. In other words, instead Of Civ.
ing them TO mankind he kept them foI
bis own occasional amusement Once
and-only once during the ten years fol.
lowing his graduation there was a
chance for his reform. At Nice one
year during the carnival he met a girl
who might have awakened in him an
ambition. There was a love affair, but
In Its incipiency the girl was taken
westward by her parents. while Mer.
riam went eastward. AS soon as they
had separated Merriam knew what be
had lost. why he had lost her he never
told his dearest friend. 1t was sup
posed her parents had other plans for
her.
But he did tell his dearest friend Of
his disappointment Strangely enough.
that friend was an Alpine guide. Mer-
riam spent many summers climbing
the Swiss peaks. always with the same
guide, Herman Goertz The dangers
they passed together, the soIitudes In
which they camped, brought out CON
fdence that could have been elected in
no other way. The guide had occasion
70 love his employer. On one occasion
Goertx slipped, hung by the rope over
precipice and was pulling Merriam
over with him He called on Merriam
to save himself by cutting the rope,
but Merriam was made OF sterner stun
and hung on till the guide got a grip
on the ice, and they were saved.
The two parted at last in a snow
storm. An avalanche began to move
slowly, taking Goertz with It, Merriam
could not see him, but heard him say:
Herr, farewell will send her to
you." A week later the guides body
was found thousand feet below, head
down Ia the snow
Returning to America, Merriam tried
to amuse himself. One day while at
the seashore strolling alone on the
beach. = fog came in from the ocean
and enveloped him. He was walking
slowly, guided by the sound of the
breakers, when form doomed before
him and in another moment resolved
itself into woman she stopped, and
Merriam stopped.
'You herel7 he said under his breath.
"Yes, and you"
II supposed you were In Egypt.
was told by a friend that he saw you
ut Cairo not three weeks ago"
II was. reached America last
week. z
stranger
That we should meet in this way?
should think so. How small the
world is after ALL But there is some
thing stranger still. DO you know that
! felt a premonition Of meeting you
hereY.
'In the fogy'
Eyes
THAT is remarkable" Then he add
ed muslngly, "A premonition that you
would meet mein fegp
There are gray halrs--a few-ln
your beard. Let me see; it is ten
years since we met in Nice.n
"And parted"
II couldn't help that"
"Not very well, you so young. Had
you been thirty instead Of twenty 1t
might have been different. Who sent
you here?"
who sent me?7
Il mean why did you comeY'
II took fancy to walk down the
beach"
"And took fancy to walk up"
iAnd then the fog rolled In and we
didn't see ench other until we happen
ID to come near together. After all,
t's simply coincidence"
Merriam was silent.
What are you dreaming about7 I've |
heard you have been spending most
IF your time climbing mountains. You |
seem now to be looking from some
high peak and wondering, as Professor
Tyndall did from the top Of tho Mat I
lerhorn whether the broad eypanse
before him had contained the nebulous
loud from which the universe was
svolved.v
mo. am listening to the voice OF
! friend going to his death There was
| snowsto-n. couldn't see him. AS
t.n nt.o1a~.h, fanfr t.tVt No l,aIa ntc