Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-06-13

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M the Matterhorn hotel before
~ the two girls arrived there.
They had gone direct to New York,
and 1t required the seven days to find
a fat that suited them, OF which they
were to take possession on the LIST Of
October. Then there were the lawyers
to see, a great many business details to
settle and an architect to consult. Aft
er leaving New York the girls spent a
day at Haverstock, where Dorothy
Amhurst bought a piece Of land as
shrewdly as If she had been in the
real estate business all her life. After
this transaction the girls drove to the
station on the line connecting with the
inclined railway and so, as katherine
remarked, were waited to the skies
on fowery beds of ease," which she
explained to her shocked companion
was all right because it vas q quota
ton from a hymn. When at last they
reached their hotel, Katherine was in
e~cstasies. .
isn't this h%eavenly" she cried.
"And, indeed, it ought to be, for 1 un-
derstand we are 5000 feet higher than
we were in New York. and even the
skyscrapers can't compete with such
an altitude"
The broad valley of the Hudson lay
spread beneath them, stretching as far
as the eye could see, shimmering in
the thin, blush veil of a summer
evening, and miles away the river It.
self could be traced like a silver rib
bon.
The gallant captain, who had been
energetically browbeaten by his young
er daughter and threatened with divers
pains and penalties should he fail to
pay attention and take heed to instruc-
lions, had acquitted himself with eclat
in the selection of rooms for Dorothy
and his daughter. The suit was STU
ated in n corner Of the huge cara
yansary, a large parlor occupying the
angle, with windows on one side look
ing into the forest and on the other
giving an extended view across the
valley. The front room adjoining the
parlor was to be Dorothy's very own,
and the end room belonged to Rather
inc, he said, as long as she behaved
herself. If Dorothy ever wished to
evict her strenuous neighbor, all she
had to do was to call upon the captain,
and he would lend his aid, at which
proffer of assistance katherine tossed
her head and said she would try the
room for a week and if she didn't like
it out Dorothy would have to go.
There followed days and nights of
r~evelry-hops, concerts, entertainments
of all sorts, with a1fmore %pretentious
ball on Saturday hight, when the
week-tired man from New York ar
rived in the afternoon to find temper
allure 20 degrees lower and the alti-
tude very much higher than was the
case in his busy Office in the city.
Katherine reveled in this round Of ex-
element, and, indeed, so, in a milder
way, did Dorothy. After the func-
lions were owe the girls enjoyed a
comforting chat with one another in
their drawing room, all windows p
and the moon a-shining down over the
luminous valley, which it seemed to
fill with mother of pearl dust.
Young ]. X. Henderson of New
York, having danced repeatedly with
Katherine on Saturday night, unex
pectedly turned up for the hop on the
following Wednesday, when he again
danced repeatedly with the same JOY
GUS girl. 1t being somewhat unusual
for a keen business nan to take a
four hours journey during an after
noon in the middle of the week and as
a consequence arrive late at his Office
next morning, Dorothy began to Won
der if a concrete formation, associated
with the name of Prince Ivan Lennon
tof Of Russia. was strong enough to
stand an energetic assault of this ma
ture, supposing it were to be constant
~ repeated. 1t was after midnight on
Wednesday when the two reached the
corner parlor. Dorothy sat in a cane
armchair, while Katherine threw her.