Connecticut western news., 1910-03-17

looked anxious. then smiled.
 For moment l was in doubt If It were really she. It did not appear that she was changed. but that looked at her through different eyes from before. Her figure did not face me. but she was looking at me side. wise. was troubled I longed for her. she was with me. but was not sure she was the same person. While l gazed i'll perplexity she turned, and l saw the birthmark on her neck Then she came to me. seemingly wad- ing through water. and took my hand l drew her down beside me and said responsibility:
 "Why did you leave meT's
 q couldn't help it. It.was fate. Ev- erything changes in this world"
 It did not occur to me that this was a vague answer. At any rate, l was satisfied with 1t.
 Are you going away again?" asked.
 No, not now: some day"
 "When will that beT'
 "A long. long while from now"
 And will you love me until this sep aration comesY'
 Il will love you always. here and where 1 go."
 "l will go with you. You shall not go without me-"
 Then hand in hand we were climb ing the mountain 1 had seen from the window. We seemed to be ascending as if bouyed by wings. Eager to reach that cloudlike summit had seen, we pressed on and on, but whenever l looked up to see if we neared 1t we were as far below as before. Turning to look back. the houses beneath ap- peared like ant hills. Then 1 felt the snow slowly moving beneath me.
 Ut is an avalanche!" I exclaimed.
 We were turned toward the valley and hand in hand slid down the noun tain. Though we moved with accel- erated pace, we kept our feet. We were like two gulls soaring. then. turn ing their wings aslant, sailing down an aerial incline. Suddenly the snow be- fore us began to pile up against the base of cliff. We lost our balance, and. head downward, l felt tons of snow piling on top of me.
 No bones broken" I heard a voice say close beside me. If there's no in- ternal injury he will be all right
 opened my eyes. I was lying on hard snow. while people stood about me, all looking very anxious. One of them, girl, stood gazing down upon me with a pair of mild eyes in which there was a world of sympathy. There must have been something in my glance to affect her, for she lowered her eyes. blushed and turned away. As she did so she exposed one side of like rose leaf.
 Whats the matterT' I asked.
 Matter! Why, you have fallen twen- ty feet from the ledge up there."
 l remembered passing over a ledge, but didn't remember anything else.
 How long have been uncon- scious?' I asked.
 You fell this very minute. Here; take a little of this.'
 A party of tourists happened to be passing when 1 fell and among them doctor. From where 1 lay l could see the Alpine peak Jungfrau. l had been looking at it during the period of my unconscioxsness, which might have been an infinitesimally small fraction of time. I had seen the girl with birthmark only during the same space of time.
 They wished to assist me to the ho- tel just below. at Sheidig. but con cluded to try my legs. The doctor gave me his hand, and got on my feet. One of the tourists who stood about me volunteered 10 go with me, but 1 got on fairly well without his assistance.
 What I have recorded Is the begin ming of a love story; but, though l have no objection to telling a dream, I shrink from giving the thoughts and feelings of myself and the lady of my love- was less interested in dis covering whether had displaced any of my internal parts than getting on the track of the girl with a birth mark. I missed her at Sheidig. but saw her the next evening at the Kur- sail (casino) at Interlaken. slipping a lemonade. I dogged her footsteps for days before I succeeded in corralling her-that Is. before l could find her lighted. so to speak, and I could get mutual acquaintance to introduce me. l finally cornered her on the Rigo, near Lucerne. and. as luck would have 1t. my friend Jim Thompson was there. too. and was acquainted with her.
 I expected under the influence of my dream that 1 should have as easy a time getting her as I had during that long drawn out infnitesimally short period. Instead. l had real woman to deal with and not creation of my own fancy.
 There was TO dream for her. l was to her an ordinary parsonage with whom neither dreams nor romance had anything to do. was obliged to lay siege to her heart and advance by reg uar approaches ! made very slow progress. Nevertheless by persistence finally conorcrod. and it was not till then that tod her this story.