The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-18

wlnd Of fine snow, dragging with f the head guide and Tartarin. while tn, rear guide gripped with desperation ms Ice ax driven deeply into the snow to sustain the terrific pull.
 Though he could hold the men up ne could not pull them out. He stoo, 1 crouching, with clenched teeth ant stratning muscles. Tartarin threw hi arms and legs about like a puppet fo a moment. Then he regained his pres ence of mind
 up therei" cried ae. Don't let u, get moldy herew
 The guide hailed him for his lct ax. his own having been lost in tn. fall. The instrument was passed to hin by Taftarsn. and he managed to GU l steps in the ice to sustain himself Then the other guide succeeded 1T dragging Tartarin up. 1 When the guide climbed out, trem. bling with his exertions Tartarin kept | drumming a tune under the noses of his astonished companions BrGv! Bray Franzose" said they, batting him on the shoulder. and Tartarin, with a de- lighted laugh, replied: T knew quite well there was no danger!" Within the memory of guide. never had there been such an 4-lptnist as | thisl
 They col+'nued on their way, climb
 
 high, in which they cut steps pain fully and slowly. Suddenly the guides began to wave their hats and yodel with all their might. They had reached the summit.
 Deep below they could see the hotel, toy house. A minute speck of smoke was seen. FaIpt detonations came to their ears through the silence. The people below had seen the climbers on the peak and were firing cannon in their honor.
 Tartarin, who had been so tired and stupefied by the work of the last two hours that his guides had dragged him up the wall. woke to the full pos session of his faculties when he real 1zed that below were his fellow club members and the tourists and young ladies looking up with telescopes and field glasses. He snatched the club banner from the guide, unrolled 1t and waved 1t. Then fixing his ice ax in the snow. he seated himself. superb. flag In hand, facing the distant pub lie.
 At that instant the sun formed one of its spectral mountain images and a gigantic Tartarin was outlined against the sky. enlarged ;-nd short ened. the beard bristling. like a Scan- dinavian deity.
 After the wonderful ascent Tartar in's nose peeled and became pimply from the sun and the snow. His cheeks cracked. He was forced to keep his room for five days. plastered with salves. He whiled away the time by dlctating circumst0ntial account of his expedition to be read to the club.
 When his general fatigue had abated he and his supporters took the train for Tarascon via Geneva. Everywhere, in the narrow railway carriages, in the steamers. in the hotels, at the ta- bles. they spread terror and amaze ment with their cries songs, their ex- uberant affection for each other their banner and their alpenstocks for since the ascent of their president they had prov -ded themselves with AL pine instruments on which the records of ascents were burned in black let ters.
 When they arrived in Geneva the French papers were obtained. All the journals in the south of France had copied the accounts of Tartarin's as- cent from The Tarascon Forum-the account which Ee had dictated and when they embelllshed with startling eulogies. Suddenly Tararin uttered n cry. In The Forum was a paragraph which read:
 Tt Is reported that Vice President Costecalde. of the Alpine Club. is about to leave here with view to asceni .-- nt Blanc-to go higher up than Tar tarin."
 The bandit" cried Tartarin. "He wants to destroy the effect of my Jungfrau! We'll, wait! I will take inc wind out of you and your mountain! Chamonix Is only a few milea from Geneva. l will do Mont Blanc before niml'
 When they burst into the hotel at Chamonix their usual effusive noise became greater than ever for they | found no less a person than Bompard 1 there. In the delight of this meet | Ing with a compatriot they guIped | champagne and laughed screamed ges- | .iculated, embraced each other and | sobbed
 T will not leave you any more" ,ried Bompard. My Peruvians have | gone away. I am at liberty"
 Then you win make the ascent of Mont Blanc with mel" exclaimed Tar arin.
 Are you going to do Mont Blanc?" lsked Bompard without enthusiasm.
 "Yes. am going to put CostecaIds's iose out of joint You are with me, Of ,ourseg' |