The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-02-07
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h0nors at college, having a fortune al
his disposal. buried his talents In a
napkin. In other words, instead of CIV
ing them to mankind he kept them for
his own occasional amusement Once
and only once during the ten years fol
lowing his graduation there was s
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 love affair, but
In its incipiency the girl was taken
westward by her parents, while Mer
Ram went eastward. AS soon as they
had separated Merriam knew what he
told his dearest friend. 1t was sup
posed her parents had other plans for
her,
But he did tell his dearest friend of
bis disappointment. Strangely enough
that friend was an Alpine guide. Mer-
Ram spent many summers climbing
the Swiss peaks, always with the same
guide, Herman Goertz The dangers
they passed together, the solitudes in
which they camped, brought out con
hdence that could have been ELECTED In
no other way. The guide had occasion
to love his employer. On one occasion
Goertz slipped, hung by the rope over
a 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 stuff
and hung on till the guide got 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 in 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 a form doomed before
him and In another moment resolved
itself into a woman. She stopped, and
Merriam stopped.
"You herew he said under his breath.
Eyes, and your
II supposed you were in Egypt.
was told by a friend that he saw you
at Cairo not three weeks ago."
II was. reached America last
week."
stranger
''That we should meet in this wayP
/ should think so. How small the
world Is after all! But there Is some
thing stranger still. Do you know that
felt a premonitlon of meeting you
herep
''In the fogr'
Yes"
'That is remarkable" Then he add
ed musingly, "a premonition that you
would meet me-ln a fogp
"There are gray halrs-a few-ln
your beard. Let me see; 1t IL ten
years since we met In Nice"
"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 hereY'
"Who sent mer'
II mean why did you comeY'
II took a fancy to walk down the
beach"
"And took a fancy to walk up."
"And then the fog rolled in, and we
didn't see each other until we happen
cd to come near together. After all,
It's simply coincidence"
Merriam was silent.
What are you dreaming about3 I've
heard you have been spending most
Of your time climbing mountains. You
seem now to be looking from some
high peak and wondering, as Professor
Tyndall did from the top Of the Mat
terhorn, whether the broad expanse
before him had contained the nebulous
cloud from which the universe was
evolved"
"No, am listening to the voice OF
q friend going to his death. There was