The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-07-18

were really she. 1t did not appear that
she was changed, but that looked at
her through different eyes from before
der 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 I cazed in
perplexity she turned, and I saw the
birthmark on her neck. Then she
came to me, seemingly wading through
water, and took my hand | drew her
down beside me and said reproach.
fully:
why did you leave me?"
Il couldn't help it. 1t was fate. Ev.
erything changes in this world"
1t did not occur to me that this was
vague answer. At any rate, was
satisfied with it.
Are you going away again?' l 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:"
Il will love you always, here and
where ! go
81 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 cloudlike summit l 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.
ut 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 al
aerial incline. Suddenly the snow be
fore us began to pile up against the
base of n cliff. We lost our balance
and. head downward, | felt tons o.
snow piling on top of me.
mo bones broken | heard voice
say close beside me. IF there's no In
ternal injury he will be all right"
| opened my eyes. | was lying OF
hard snow, while people stood abou
me. all looking very anxious. one o
them. a girl, stood gazing down upoi
me with a pair of mild eyes i'll whici
there was a world of sympathy. Ther
must have been something In m.
glance to affect her, for she Lowered
her ewes. blushed and turned away A
she did so she exposed one side oil ne
neck It bore birthipark shaped Tx
q rose leaf.
"What's the matter?" | asked.
"Matter. Why, you have fallen t"ei
tv feet from the ledge up there.
7 remembered passing over iedg'
but didn't remember anything else'
! GLOW long have been uhcol
scIousT | asked
"You fell this very minute nei'
take little of this"
, A party Of tourists happened 10
: passing when l fell and among them
, doctor From where lay could st
: the Alpine peak Jungfrau. | had pee
, looking at il during the period OF ID
: Inconsistencies which might nay
! heen an infnitesimally small fractlo
' 90 time | had seen the glrl Win
, hirthmark only during the same spa'
Of time. .ho +,
: They wished to assist me TO tne Ii
' ., inst below, at Sheidig, but col
? o,rdod 70 try my legs. The doct'
coro me his hand, and ! got on III
j. foot One of the tourists VINO stoo
e about me volunteered to 60 WIN u
hut 7 cot on fairly well without d
assistance. A.. hooi
what I have recorded is the oeel
| ming of a love story; but, tnousu
| have no objection to telling a dreal
I sbrink from giving the Thoughts al
4 feelings of myself and the lady OF u =.
+ ,ore was less interested III u
: covering whether had displaced al
! ~ INV internal parts than getting
oi NY 90 tho girl with Dirt
.n III, missed her OF Sheidig, D
naw her the next evening at the ku
col 1casino) at Interlaken, sipplns
,sn,onade | logged her footsteps :
! srs before | succeeded in corraill
Sar-tbat is. before | could nna u
NJ uahtod go to speak, and | couiu Z
= mutual acquaintance TO ih'lV p,s
fnally cornered her on tne M
: I. lne' 1ncerne, and, as luck wouid na
: NV friend Jim Thompson was 'ne'
~. =, and was acquainted with her,
" Toxnected under the influence ol !
a lam that | should have as easy
J. .ime Getting her as had during W.
!, , ,i.ne drawn out infnltesimaly suO
.Or -5od Instead, | had real "om'
d p doal with and not creation q F"
: own NJ Nv was no dream fof her. "
b bor an ordinary personage W
; " neither dreams nor romance u
e ANYTHING to do. l was DDn nSo bv 70