Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-31
Wed ON MOUNTAIN
EnuIish Girl Will Marry Her
Fiance on Lofty Peak in
State ST Nevada.
ROMANCE OF LONG STANDING
Rich Miner Wins Miss Who IS Years
Ago Slapped His Face in a
Youthful Frolic.

Miss Lille Edith bergman OIL GWl-
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. Michael'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
cend Wheeler's peak to be married on
the summit
Much of the country about Lands
End, England, is I'm 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 a party of
girls were spending the afternoon on
st. Mfchaefs 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 a 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 slim young
girl with chestnut hair, Il dare you
TO kiss that girl
Young Nichols would not take the
dare and undertook to kiss his play
mate. A singing 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
q comfortable fortune and became a
mining operator. A year ago last
March he went back to Penzance,
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,
"Which-the red haired oneT' asked
Jack
mo; 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
He Was Fast Worker.
thin two weeks after this chance
meeting on the street Nichols had
been introduced to Miss Berryman, and
two months later he returned to Amer
lea with Miss Berryman's promise to
come over within Il year and marry
him
Nichols wanted Miss Bergman to
marry him on st. Michaefs 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. as you are now an Amer
lean and have to go back to your bust
ness, l will promise you that within
year l 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-
init of Wheeler's peak