The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-05-10

. favorable and I NSs 0N.,grd To- spend
St The time / hSd Ia spare Tor that
pUgpOSe Wstchlug and waiting Tor a
change strollei snsut % good deal,
sometimes going U1 the side of the
/ ulouElaln on Que II these walks
>sue upon the chalet 90 au old moun
,slueti IN whose chut was interest
/ ed tie HSet with AS >au.iU law, who
Wss sJide and his daughter The
CoUpie had several childr,n the oldest
Of whom VAS hoy of fourteen BE
I fore left Cham0uuiS 3 had 50 far
wvU tie old mans confidence that he
told us story inr0yiu- tit az fam
! ~ history
give IL Ia his own words noticed
while lie was telling il that bis face
wore an expression az one who had
something on his conscience ~ which
lie vas not satisfied 40 least such
was ny impression
My daughter Lena when she was
little sirl was a verltanle snow bird
There MAS No height L. which she
NNAth Abk NAliil's az W - i'lA q 'Ntl INV
edge or which Sue Nould not laol
without drawing bacL once | saw
her standing on elm poised as II
ready 10 sail down on To- the snow
some forty feet below Then. 10 my
horror she stepped on Tier fan was
somewhat broken by the air being
caught beneath her skirts. aud she
seemed 10 sail down like II swallow.
II ran toward the spot where she
had fallen aud found her in the soft
snow some three or four feet below
the surface Had | not been on hand
10 assist her il is questionable If she
would have been able 10 dig herself
out When | released her she laughed
Ia great glee
Il took her home and spanked her.
but IL didn't do any good That child
did not know the meaning of the word
fear and IL seemed us II she believed
she could hy from one elf 10 another,
At any rate. after what had happened
| was always in dread lest IN attempt
ing 10 initiate a bird she would be kill
ed Such children are always loved
more than those made in tie ordinary
way. and Lena WAS worShiped by me
and her mother. aud there was no one
about here who did not know her for
odd SHE passed among
them all as the little snow bird
My old friend pfeitIer had n son
FIVE years older than Lena, aud Pfeir-
fer had made Il lot OF money down Oh
the line between Switzerland and Italy
smuggling goods across the Italian
lakes. For the reason OF this money.
which would one day belong To young
Gustav Pfeiner. | WAS quite willing
10 betroth Lena Ia Gustav Ia he mar.
rfed when she should he old enough.
But Lena had playmate. Fritz Hen
KEEL, who was as fearless among the
mountains as sue. aud the two became
lovers. Young Henkel IA soon rs he
became old enough began To- guide
tourists up the mountain. for he knew
every foot or the way. and every one
said he was more al home there than
in the valley.
but ! had no idea Of my daughter
marrying q guide who WAS liable nc
any dine 10 20 down with the ava
lanche and leave her u widow. with
nothing 10 live OF. when she could
have n young man with money IN the
bank at Geneva so ! kept my con
tract with Pfeifter Lena WAS much
broken In spirit at not being allowed
to marry the young man she loved, but
| thought thnt after she had been mar
ried awhile and had children she would
settle down To the hnmdrum at life
like the rest Of It's and forget about
Fritz Henkel She could have run
away with him and been married. but
she would not Her mother had died.
and she knew | needed her ana II she
I would have no one 10 tale care Of
me In my old age.
when Henkel knew that he must
lose her. like a good fellow he went
away from her to lnteriaken aud guild
ed tourists up the Jungfran ana the
other mountains thereabout. He would
not come back here even To see his
lhtHtT anu iuotuef. lnOuSH TIE SOM
them a part OF his earnings As FOR
Lena. she did what she could To be
content rs the wife OF n man she did
not love. She did not complain. but
saw that to please me she had made
g sacrifice that she might never re
cover from Resides. Gustav did not
turn ont very well His father. IN.
fortunately for my plan. continued to
live instead OF dying Mt Il proper age
and leaving his money to his son. Nor
did he give Gustav anything either on
which to live So Gustav. instead OF
taking up any steady employment.
thought he could make money as his
father had made II and became n
smuggler
But every year the revenue men
became more watchfui and expert in
detecting smugglers and. what Is
worse for the smugglers. more honest.
though perhaps this was because they
themselves were more closely watched
At any rate. Gustav did not succeed
as his father had succeeded and at last
was caught smuggling and was sent to
prison.
~ was much depressed by what
had done. but Lena did not reproach
me. She took good care Of me aud