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DOUBT

HERE had been a doubt in Na's. The booted foot reached him with mind since the day she promised split second to spare. He grasped Simon Palmer she would marry him, bracing his feet, easing the weigh It was annoying, annoying because He'd have to inch his way up her 1 there was no apparent reason for it. to the ledge above, When she analyzed Simon's character He began slowly, then a new terr she found it as near perfect as any struck him. Nan's foot had given man's could be. So she suppressed the little in his hand. That meant h doubt, forgot it and was happy. hand hold was loosening. He look

Then, a month before the wedding, up. He could see her face, white 'n they decided to climb El Capitan. grim. No sound escaped her lips, Climbing was the hobby of both. They It took only a second to make his d had talked at length on many ooca- cision. It seemed like years. It mea sions of Conquering El Capitan's four one or the other of them. Both could teen odd thousand feet and rock peaks live. He closed his eyes and let g He hea The night before the great day they. He felt himself falling. camped at the ranger station located Nan scream. 8000 feet up Capitan's southern slope: Then something jerked him wi The ranger warned them what was such a shock that the wind was knoc ahead. He advised them to forget what led out of him

insta they had in mind. They laughed at He opened, his eyes. An him.

later he crashed, pendulum like, again The next morning they, set out an à ledge. He felt a terrific pain in hour before sunrise. At first the go- ankle. Blackness enveloped him. ing was easy. Both were in fine When he opened his eyes Nan w spirits.. Sunup found them 2000 feet bending over him.

on their way. An hour later they were "You had the rope slung over yo above tree line. The wind blew terri- shoulder. A loop caught on a cr fically, but the sky remained clear. At and swung you m. You've sprain

By Barbara Ann Benedict

11 o'clock they stopped on a sheltered your ankle. I'm going for help.”

"No!" he cried. “You can't ma ledge and ate two chocolate bars each.

"The worst is ahead of us, Palmer it alone." He tried to get up, but f said. "A thousand feet of rope work." back with a groan.

!

Let's"

get at it," Nan cried, leaping: She stopped and kissed him. "Ds up. Her eyes sparkled.

Palmer knotted the rope around. I'm sorry. You know I am

"I know," he said. He caught Nan's waist and around his own. He hand. "I've known all along ab sent Nan ahead, keeping as close be the doubt. You love me, don't you? hind as possible in case she slipped.. "More than anything else in

It was slow tortuous work, thrilling. world." She kissed him again, It took them an hour longer than they that, for a long while, was the last expected. The sun was halfway down remembered.

in the heavens when they finally reach- When he returned to consciousne ed the top. They inscribed their again it was dark. The wind.

The pain names in the book which they found in blowing. He felt cold.

his ankle was terrific. the cairn.

He lay st wondering, thinking, miserable..

Suddenly he heard voices. The he and shoulders of a man appeared of the ledge, followed by another-N and the ranger!

"We'd better start down now," Pal. mer said. "We want to reach the ranger station before dark."

"Let's try the eastern ravine. It's shorter."

Somehow they got him down to t "And more dangerous," Palmer said. "And thrilling," Nan supplemented. station. Dawn had come, Nan want Palmer looked worried. He sawed to tell Palmer that she's

to sleep, but more than that she wa that she was serious..

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"Forget it, Nan. It's too much of a doubt again. But it wasn't necessa Palmer knew. He told her witho risk. We're not equal to it."

speaking, and she was satisfied.

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Nan looked at him, and curiously the old, nearly-forgotten doubt flashed across her mind. He was afraid. He was a coward. That was it. That was the doubt. She had feared it all along.

She tried to drive the thought away, but it persisted. Before she could atop. herself she said. "So! Afraid!"

Palmer tried to laugh it off, but ha knew. He flushed, then went white. His mouth set firmly,

"O. K. Let's get started..

Nan went first, rapolling the rope over one, shoulder and beneath the op posite leg. Then Palmer would double. the rope around a projecting rock, ra- pell himself down to where she waited,

pull the loose rope | after him, ..., and they'd start over again.

Neither spoke. They came at length

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to easier going and discarded the rope, 143 Palmer went first now, -watchings- the 145 girl above, ready to catch her. They: desconded fifty fest then Palmer, cling, ing to a ledge above a forty foot Telt the rock giving way beneath his

hut-ho, kept his head. Hia volca; nort

"Get a good hand hold, Nan, thrust down a foot. I'm 'slipping."

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