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THE DAILY SHORT STORY

High Slope

He was

"Within the past five years three was the trouble with Milt. men have attempted to ascend the always sure of himself, always right. and high slope of Mount Talisman on skis. She thought of tall Jack Perry All three were killed in the attempt. what he planned to do, and a carious These men deserved their fate. They little shiver of excitement ran through were reckless fools. The high slope of her body. Mount Talisman is non-navigable on runners, even to experts."

J

Milt Daniels stated these facts aloud, gazing the while toward the high slope where a fine mist of snow, whipped into action by the eternal winds, hang like a delicate veil.

"You're not really going to try it," she asked him that night. They were alone together on the porch outside the lodge.

"You sound worried, I'm glad. It When I was you who decided me. saw you standing there yesterday it changed a lot of things." Suddenly "But they were brave men," Bonnie he seized her and kissed her passion- Douglas said.

I didn't intend "Forgive me. ately. Milt smiled and shook his head. to do that. It probably sounds crazy, "They were fools. There was no credit but I love you. Can't you say you due them. Brave men don't attempt love me a little?" the impossible."

"Then

known

Let's

"I don't know. I've only Bonnie stared at him.

yesterday. Pleuse. you you since don't think Jack Perry will attempt go back.” it? You think the stories, we've been The next day dawned bright and hearing about his plan to conquer the clear. Everyone who was staying at the inn was on hand at 10 o'clock high slope are untrue?"

"Rumours instigated by dramatic- when Jack Perry shouldered his skis minded hero lovers. Perry's the great- and started up the hill. A cheer rose est of the day, but he's too smart to on the still, cold air.

Milt

the

slope."

high

attempt

Standing beside Milt, Bonnie felt a swung his skis in a great are "Come strange sensation of anxiety, of fright.

1

By Meredith Scholl

of

on. Let's go back. He probably ar- She waited until Jack-Perry had dis rived on the afternoon train."

appeared beyond the first fringe There was a hubbub of excitement trees. Then something happened in- in_the_great community room of the side of her, over which she had no lodge when Bonnie and Milt entered. control-

He "Milt, please try and understand. Jack Perry had indeed arrived. stood in the centre of an enthusiastic I-I've got to stop him. I want to group, a tall, fair-haired, handsome go alone."

"O. K.," Milt said. "Go ahead. I youth, obviously enjoying the atten- tion. Two reporters were pressing understand." He, smiled, and Bonnie

remembered the smile. him with questions.

"How about it, Jack, are you go- ing to try the high slope?"

"Give the word, and we'll splash it across the front page."

Jack Perry smiled down at the two reporters, then lifted his head and looked around at the group of people. He started to speak, but checked him self, because his gaze had fixed itself on Bonnie's face. He stared at her 80 long that she dropped her eyes. She had gained the bottom step when she heard his answer.

She cut across the base of the hill and followed the ravine. By so doing she should overtake him at the foot Breathless, she of the high slope. rounded the last clump of shrubbery and stopped dead still. Jack Perry was standing in the clearing there, leaning on his skis, waiting.

"Hello," he said. "I'm glad you've come. For a minute I thought yon wouldn't.”

Then-then "Thought Iwouldn't? you're not going to attempt the run?" not "Sure," he said, "Sure, I'm

"That?" He jerked a thumb over only going to try the high slope, I'm his shoulder.. "I should say not. No going to conquer it!"

man could make that run and live.

"

.

It wasn't until after dinner that I'm too smart," he laughed. "Honey, Bonnie was presented to him formally. that was only a play-to explain to You She felt the blood rush into her cheeks; you that you really do love me. she felt annoyingly self-conscious. see, unless you loved me you wouldn't She was glad when he asked her to have followed.

"You're despicable! Milt said you dance, because it relieved a certain

weren't a fool, but you are! A con- tenseness that was hard to explain.

"So you're Jack Perry, the wonder ceited fool. I followed you to tell you boy on skis."**

that if I was the reason for your try- ing such a fool stunt, I wanted to be relieved of all responsibility."

He laughed. "You sound as though I'd done something I shouldn't."

"You will. if you attempt the high slope. It's killed three, men.”

Perhaps they didn't know how to handle themselves."

toward Jack Perry made a move her, but he wasn't wearing his skie and Bonnie was. Three seconds later she was nearing the smile that she Bonnie went off early the next had remembered. morning with Milt. If Milt had notic. (Copyright, 1988, By The Associat-

ed the attention Jack Perry paid her, ed Newspapers.)

he gave no indication. Yet thinking

about it later she decided) he must

have wondered about her silence. At An Air Raid Percautions Lecture last she said:

"He'll make

a greater skier.

will be given to the Hong Kong There never was Chinese Women's Soldiers Relief

He won't make it, because he won't Association. members and their attempt it. That grandstand stuff friends, on Monday, June 20, at doesn't mean anything. Perry's too 5.80 p.m. in the Association's head- smart.”

*Bonnie knew a strange resentiment quarters, Wang Hing Building, at, Milta confident tutude. That Queen's Road, Central.