The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-10-18
Next / was lytns on a lounge look.

diness ardoor opened and ysbost love
game into the nooans At firsttshe look.
ed anxious, then smiled. q
For moment I.wasqin doubt II 1t
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 she
was >lookingt4at| ME asfdewfse. 1 was
troubled., Isylonged4 for her. she was
with me, but i was not sure she was
the same person. While I .gazed In
perplexity she turned. andsi saw the
birthmark ION her neck. Then she
came to noe, seemingly wading through
water. and took my hand. I drew her
down beside me and said reproach
fully:
"Why did you leave me" -! -
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 again?" asked.
mo. not now; some day."
when will that be?" .....
"a long. long while from now"
"And will you love me until this sep
aration comes?"
~ will love you always. here and
where CO."
81 will 60 with you. You shall not
60 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 cloudlike summit had seen, we
pressed on and on. but whenever
looked up to see If we neared it we
were as far below as before. Turning
to look back. the houses beneath ap-
peared like ant hills. Then felt the
snow slowly moving beneath me.
sit Is an avalanche!' 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 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 a cliff. We lost our balance,
and, head downward, l felt tons OF
snow pfIing on top of me.
'No bones broken" heard q voice
say close beside me. If there's no In
ternal injury he will be all right" !.
1 opened my eyes. l was lying on
hard snow, while people stood about
me. all looking very anxious. One Of
them. girl, stood gazing down upon
me with pair of mild eyes in which
there was 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 her
neck. 1t bore birthmark shaped like
a rose leaf. .$
whats the matter?' l asked.
Matter! Why. you have fallen twen-
ty feet from the ledge up there"
l remembered passing over ledge.
but didn't remember anything else.
How long have I been uncon-
sciousY l asked.
"You fell this very minute. Here;
take little of this"
A parry of tourists happened to be
passing when fell and among them a
doctor. From where l lay could see
the Alpine peak Jungfrau. had been
looking at it during the period Of my
Inconsistencies. which might have
been. an infinitesimally small fraction
Of time. l had seen the girl with a
birthmark only during the same space
Of time.
They wished to assist me to the no.
tel just below, at Sheidig, but Icon
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 60 with me,
but l got on fairly well without his
assistance.
Z What / have recorded is the begin
ming Of a love story; but, though ]
have no objection to telling dream,
l shrink from giving the thoughts and
feelings of myself and the lady Aof my
love. l 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, slipping a
lemonade. 5dogged her footsteps for
lays before l. succeeded in corralling
her-that, is, before / could find her
lighted, so to speak, and I could get
mutual acquaintance to introduce
me. I finally cornered her. on the Rigi,
near Lucerne, and, as luck would have
It. my friend Jim. Thompson was there.
too, and was acquainted with her.
II expected under the influence Of my
dream that should have as easy q
time getting her as had during that
long drawn out infnitesimally short
period. Instead, had real woman
to deal with and not creation of my
own fancy. q 4pe 81
There was no dream foffher. I 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
ular approaches. made very slow