The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1910-08-18
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II YOU 50 to Interlaken II 4 quite
possible you may ~ the man who told
me III story You VIII nnd him
standing almost any Day when the It
mosphere u transparent and tho glori
GUS Jungfrau looms up beautifully n
notch between two Of the foothills
standing beside tho main street q the
town, showing tho mountain through
his telescope to tourists 1t half franc
look" / do not mean to say that
he put the facts at the bottom Of his
yarn together as i story. Nevertheless
they are I story. and It II my part 10
arrange them In proper form. Here It
il - he told 1t to me, with certain
transpositions Of mine necessary to its
ready understanding:
One day few summers ago was
standing here showing people the
mountain when party came along
consisting OF g young girl and two
young men. The girl and one Of the
young men were Americans. The other
young man. Judged from his accent,
was French The American man was
q quiet steady looking fellow. The
Frenchman was handsome, with all the
| yivacity OF the French people. while
the girl was one Of your American
beauties. The names OF all three NJ
terward learned. and I shall never
forget them. The American man ~as
Archibald Wallace: the Frenchman
was Jean lie versan; the girl was
Alice Clark.
"Oh. there Is telescope" exclaim-
ed Miss Clark AZ she approached me.
DO let's have look"
With her American impulse she put
her eye to the eye-piece. while ] made
the Adjustments.
"Isn't It wonderful?v she said en-
| Enthusiastically what beautiful slopesi
What awful CULTS! But It is fsscinat.'
ing. I'm crazy to go up there"
The very next afternoon ] was stani-
ing here, as usual. waiting for people
to come along and pay me for look
through my atclescope. when, Sc sing a
mass OF snow on the mountain begin
ming to move. put my eye to the
glass. After witnessing an avalanche
turning the g'ass about over the noun
tain saw three figures. two men and
a woman. not far above the snow line.
My glass did not reveal their features.
but I suspected they we're the parry
who had been with me the day before.
watched them for sometime. AZ
ter . while saw one OF the men stroll
| away around a snow covered rock.
[. where he was screened from the 9th
/ FRS. and look over clin- Then he
vent part OF the way back and. fan
scied. called-of course could not hear
him--so the other man, for the latter
went around the rock and Joined him.
and the two stood on the edge Of the
clin together looking over. Suddenly
saw one figure behind the other and
Tho front one fall over the cliff.
There was steep incline at the
|. ellis base OF hard snow. The mo-
4 menf the figure that had fallen struck
this snow I saw him glance. then
shoot down on the surface. He pass
ed be d a peak. and when he again
appea. Z saw him still gliding. Then
be slid around bend and disappeared.
As soon as was convinced that !
should not see him again turned my
glass back TO the ether figure He was
running toward the woman. When ne
reached her there was a pantomime |
which indicated no was telling her
that the other man had fallen over tac
ciIfY. But | knew very well that he |
had pushed his friend--or enemy. 10
the case might be-oyer. While |
could not distinguish the woman's fea-
lures. knew BY her motions that she
Was terribly moved by the tragedy. |
She went with the remaining man 10
the elf. and the two seemed to be
hooking down at It's base to see II
they could get glimpse OF their com
panion. Then they turned away and
descended the mountain.
was satisfied that one Of the men
had pushed the other over the clif
and that they we're Wallace and Lei
Verian. though could not tell which
was the victim. / knew full wen tnat
the matter would soon be reported and
resolved to keep my own counsel. Gu.
rious 20 know IA what form the trag.
edy would be made known.
The same night heard that ter
riblc accident had happened 10 young
American stopping at the J. hotel
] went there and got the story from
the concierge. lie said that while a
MI Wallace. an American. was look
Ing over q cllfT crust of snow had
Eiven way under hia feet and he had
fallen 100 feet to the bottom. He had
DOUBTLESS been killed. A party was bc
ing made up to 60 the next day to
look for his body.
Making further Inquiries. learned
that he had gone up the mountain SIDE
with q Jean IL verian. Partisan.
and Miss CLARK, OF Philadelphia. While
was permitting people TO tell me
about what I know much more than
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