Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1917-09-14
Next was lying on a lounge look:

returned to my lounge. was weak |
and languid.
While was recovering from my gid |
diness door opened and my lost love
came into the room. At first she look
ed anxious, then smiled.
For moment l was in doubt If it
were really she. 1t did not appear that
she was changed, but that looked at
her through different eyes from before.
Her figure did not face me, but aAe
was looking at me sldewise. / was
troubled. longed for her, she was
with me, but was not sure she was
the same person. While gazed in
perplexity she turned and | saw the
birthmark on hen neck Then she
came to me, seemingly wading through
water, aud took my hand. I drew her
down beside me and SAD reproach-
fully:
"Why did you leave meT
II couldn't help It, IT was fate. Ev-
erything changes In this world"
1t did not occur to me that this was
a vague answer At any rate, ! was
satisfied with 1t.
"Are you going away again2" l asked.
mo, not now; some day"
"When will that be2"
"a long, long while from now"
"And will you love me until this sep.
aration comesT
II will lovo you always, here and
where CO."
II will go with you You shall not
go without me-"
Then hand IN hand we were climb
ing the mountain had seen from the
window We seemed to be ascending
as If buoyed by wings. Eager to reach
that cloudlik0 summit had seen, we
pressed on and on, but whenever
looked up 30 see IL we neared It wo
were as far below as before. Turning
to hook back, the houses beneath ap-
peared like ant hills. Then felt the
snow slowly moving beneath me,
ct is an s3alanche" exclaimed
We were turned toward the valley
and hand In hand slid down the noun
tain. Though we moved with accel-
Grated pace, we kept our feet. We
were like two gait soaring, then, turn
inE their WINGS aslHnt calling down an
aerial incline. Suddenly The snow be
fora US began TO pile ~ against the
base of a cliff. We lost our g'unnce,
and, head downward, l felt tons or
snow piifng on top of me.
mo bopes broken" I heard a voice
say close beside me- IF there's no In
ternal injury he will be all right"
opened my eyes was lying on
hard snow, while people stood about
me. all looking very anxious. One of
them, a girl, stood gazing down upon
me with 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 30 she exposed one side Of her
neck. 1t bore birthmark shaped like
a rose leaf
whats the matterH asked
Matter! Why, you have fallen TWEEN
ty feet from the ledge up there"
l remembered passing. over a lodge,
but | didn't remember anything else.
GLOW long have been uncon
sciousr | asked.
"You fell this very minute. Here;
take little of this
A party of tourists happened to be
passing when fell and among them q
doctor. From where lay could see
the Alpine peak Jungfrau. I had been
looking at 1t during the period Of my
Inconsistencies, which might have
been nm enthusiastically small fraction
Of time. | had seen the girl with n
birthmark only during the same space
OF time.
They wished to assist me TO the no
tel just below. at Sheidlg, 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 to go with me, |
but ! got on fairly well without his |
assistance.
What | have recorded II the begin
ming of love story; but, though ] |
have no objection to telling 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 birth
mark. | missed her at Sheidig but
saw her the next evening at the kur-
saal (casinO) at Interlaken, slppingA
lemonade. | logged her footsteps for
days before | succeeded In cOrralling
her-that is, before | could find her
lighted, 80 TO speak, and I could get
a mutual acquaintance TO Introduce
me. finally c0rnered her OH the Rigl,
near Lucerne, and, as luck would have
II, my friend Jim Thompson was there.
too, and was acquainted with her.
expected under the influence OF my
dream that should have as easy
time getting her as I Ind during that
long drawn out enthusiastically short
period. Instead, had real woman
to deal with and not n creation OF my
own fancy.
There was no dream for her was
to her m ordinary parsonage with
whom neither dreams nor romance had
anything to do. I was obliged to lay
siege to heT heart and advance by reg.
ular approaches. made very slow
progress. Nevertheless by persistence
| finally conquered and It was not
III then that I told her this story.
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