The Press., 1920-01-08

Gladys Dorman. q have traveled over this very trail year after year, and l now am at a loss as to how to pro- ceed from here.'
 Jack Dorman and his daughter had been coming up to the mountains for some years now, and it was trip that they both looked forward to very much. Gladys was only twenty, but a born mountain climber, golf and tennis play CT. Healthy outdoor sports always Hp- pealed to her, and to hike over the mountains was her chief hobby. To- day she had insisted upon going alone, telling her father that she wanted to do some exploring herself before the season was over. to which he consent ed rather reluctantly.
 After hiking for some hours heavy mountain fog set in, and the entire mOuntainside was envelOped in a dark and threatening cloud. It was useless for one to proceed until it passed over, and, as d rule, it would last but d few | minutes. But today it heightened into an hour.
 Sitting on huge rock, Gladys sat i there looking at the heavy mist, won | dering when the cloud would leave this 1 side of the mountain, when suddenly out of the mist a voice spoke.
 "HelIo what have I here| eX- | claimed the invisible one, which sound- ] ed very much like a masculine voice to | Gladys. "Well, decIare-it is a ho"t" !" and a hearty laugh could be heard near l Gladys, but the fog was so dense she , could not see who it was. Then some | one gave Gladys boot vigorous pull, and for d moment she thought she was going to slide off the rock. "Well. whoever you are--kindlN stop | pulling at my boot" cried Gladys i'm l patiently. Now she wished with all | her heart she had let her father or one of the party at the hotel accompany | her.
 "Thunder and Mars !" exclaimed the | masculine voice again. "ltS girls 1 boot I was pulling at," and again that i hearty laugh rang out, echOing down 1 the mOUntainSide At that moment the | cloud disappeared and the sun was i struggling to come out from behind ! another cloud, and finally succeeded l Then Gladys looked down and almost l at her feet was a young man looking l up at her in an amused sort of a way. | which at the time provoked her, and still he continued staring, a smile play ing around his lips, but not a word could he utter.
 "Please don't stare at me in that fashion-yOu look as though you were i a hungry bear and wanted to eat me-" and Gladys smiled in spite of herself i It was surely amusing, she thought, and at that moment she made movement as though about to rise, when the young man jumped up al most instantly and exclaimed: "Oh, I say. please don't go," in a pleading voice. And l do want to apologize" |" and again he smiled pleasantly, but a questioning look was in his eyes, and his one thought was: "Would she stay-if only for few minutes"
 "Well, AIr. Man, seeing that you have recovered your voice and that you are not going to eat me up after all, I'll stay for a few minutes." Then, as though a second thought presented it. self: 'Tm almost starving for some thing to eat-What say yOu?''
 "Say, Pm so hungry. little girl, I could almost eat you right nOW," he cried eagerly.
 every well then, it's high time for me to be going, when you want to eat me up-but I simply have to eat, and that's all there is to it, so please don't eat me up yet" she smiled.
 Gladys spread a hearty lunch on the rock, and while munching away at the delicious sandwiches that she herself had prepared, they talked and laughed between mOuthfuIS. and soon she learned from him that he, too, like herself visited the mountains every year and that he was Fred Anderson, former Well-knoWn coach at Mount ford, and a very good friend of her ia thcr's. It seemed strange to them both that they had never met, but it was due to the fact that they both were away at school during the fall. and immedi- ately when vacation time set in they both left the city. She also learned that he had just been discharged from the service.
 When they arrived at the hotel, Mr. AnderS0n'S eyes nearly stuck out of his head with surprise. 'Well, of ali things. Ted: when did you get bacl?'
 "G0t discharged about two months ago, and then beat it for the noun tans," and at the same time they both shook hands heartily.
 Ted was stopping at mountain hut, some distance away but he decided that it was very necessary that he should stay at the same hotel as the Durmans, and needless to say that Gladys and he developed stron" friendship, which later ripened into love-
 At sunset one evening shortly before 1t was time to return to the city. they were sitting on the veranda of the hotel, when suddenly Ted exclaimed "Gladys. it's strange how we both de- e-ded to start off alone on that wOn- dcrful 'never-tO-bc forgotten day alone as l. like yourself, as rule went along with a party of hikers."
 "Well. Ted" she answered demurely, "it's just this way: was lonesome and : longing for-Oh for lots of things, and"
 II, too, was lonesome, little sweet heart. and we both heard the call of the mOuntans-I was calling 10 you !ltIe girl, and you answered the cai!-"
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