Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-01-29
Il Will Send Her"


his 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 sir! |
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 MGR |
! Ram went eastward. AS soon as they |
had separated Merriam knew what he
! had lost. Why he had lost her he never
! told his dearest friend. Ii 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 solitudes in
which they camped, brought out a con
tideuce that could have been elected in
MO 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, Il 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 herer' he said under his breath.
Yes, and your
: 81 supposed you were in Egypt. |
was told by q friend that he saw you
5 at Cairo not three weeks ago"
Il was. l reached America last
week.
stranger"
THAT we should meet in this way :?
I | should think so. How small the
world Is after ALI But there is some
q thing stranger still. DO you know that
ola nf
6 here?"
! I'm the fog?'
] Yes"
3 THAT Is remarkable" Then he add
] ed musingly "A premonition that you
: would meet me-in fog
I There are gray hairs-a few-in
, your beard. Let me see; 1t is ten
years since we met in Nice"
.'And parted"
81 couldn't help that"
: mot very well. you so young. Had
| you been thirty instead of twenty it
might have been different. Who sent
! you here?''
:, "Who sent mei''
II mean why did you conner
II took fancy to walk down the
beach,"
: "And took fancy to walk up
: "And then the fog rolled In, and we
didn't see each other until we happen
> ed to come near together. After all,
! it's simply q coincidence"
Merriam was silent.
What are you dreaming about? I've
, heard YOU have been spending most
7 of your time climbing mountains You
al seem now to be looking from some
7 high peak and wondering, as Professor
Tyndall did from the top of the Mat
I terhorn, whether the broad expanse
before him had contained the nebulous
;. cloud from which the universe was
I evolved"
mo. am listening to the voice OF
e friend going to his death. There was
a snowSto,G. Il corl.n't see him. As
Il the avalanche took him he babe me
y farewell through the flakes. And nov
e you come to me through the mist"
!. She placed a hand Oh his. "Don'
2 wear that uncanry EXPRESSION. Yo'
e seem to be standing between the nat
9 ural and the spirit world. Go back II
u fancy to Nice. Say again what yol
e said then
Ie .And receive different answer"
q "All is changed | am alone in tn
world"
Two expressions We're lowering OF
bis face contending for precedence, tn
one she had called uneanny gradual,
q receding before the other, a suddel
II hope.
/ .'And receive different answer?
y he repeated.
y Eyes"
le If one had been listening to this dis
{, logue between two persons he coul
IL not see, he would have heard nothin
OF further except the plashings on the lin
ut Of foam.
I'd Then came soft yellow light fror
re above. and the mist slowly melte