The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-06-21


came into the room AZ FIRST she look
I'd anxious. then smiled
For moment ! was In doubt II II
were really she II 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 sidewise, 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 her neck. Then she
came 10 me. seemingly wading through
water. and took my hand ! drew her
down beside me and said reproach'
fully
"Why did you leave met'
II couldn't help It. 1t was fate. Ev.
erything changes in this world"
IL did not occur to me that this was
a vague answer At any rate. l was
satisfied with It,
Are you going away againT asked
"No, not now; some day
"When will that bef'
"a long. long while from now.
"And will you love me until this sep
aration comes?'
~ will love you always. here and
where ! &C"
81 will 20 with you You shall not
go without me.
Then hand In hand we were climb
ing the mountain l had seen from the
window We seemed to be ascending
as II buoyed by wings Eager to reach
that cloudlIke summit | had seen. we
messed on and on, but whenever
looked up to see IL we neared 1t 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
at is an avalanche | exclaimed.
We we're 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 Oh
snow piing on top OF me.
mo bones broken" | heard a voice
saw close beside me. IF there's no in
ternal injury he will be all right"
| opened my eyes. l was lying on
hard snow, while people stood about
me, all looking very anxious One oil
them. a girl, stood gazing down upon
me with u 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 or mel
neck 1t bore birthmark shaped Ike
rose leaf.
whats the natter asked.
"Matterl Why, you have fallen TWEEN
ty feet from the ledge up there"
remembered passing over ledge
but | didn't remember anything else.
How long have been uncon
sciousg'' ! asked.
; You fell this very minute. Here
take little Of this"
A party OF tourists happened to d.
passing when fell and among them
doctor. From where | lay could SCI
the Alpine peak Jungfrau. had beer
looking at 1t during the period or m!
Inconsistencies which might have
been an enthusiastically small Fraction
OF time. ! had seen the girl with
birthmark only during the same space
Of time.
They wished to assist me to the no
tel Just below, at Sheidig but con
cluded to try my legs. The docto
gave me his hand, and got on m!
. feet. One Of the tourists who stoot
about me volunteered to go with me
but got on fairly well without hi
assistance.
| What | have recorded is the begin
| ming OF a love story; but though
t have no objection to telling a dream
| / shrink from giving the thoughts ant
: feelings OF myself and the lady OF m.
. love. | was less interested In dis
covering whether had displaced an.
OF my internal parts than getting oil
the track OF the girl with a birth
mark. missed her at Sheidig. bu
? saw her the next evening at the kur
saal lcasino) at lnterlaken, slipping
lemonade. I dogged her footsteps 10
days before succeeded In corrailinl
her-that is, before l could find he
lighted, so to speak, and ! could &c
. a mutual acquaintance to introduce
:. me. / finally cornered her on the Rigi
near Lucerne, and. as luck would hay
It, my friend Jim Thompson was there
too. and was acquainted with her.
| expected under the influence OF m
dream that should have as easy
, time getting her as had during tina
long drawn out enthusiastically shor
I, period. Instead, had real womal
TO deal with and not 4 creation OF m.
own fancy.
\ There was no dream for her. wa
!. TO her an ordinary parsonage wit