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CHAPTER XLVII. EDELWEISS

THE DAILY PA1388 WEDNESDAY, JUNE MM, 1889.

arose, but she wished that Philip bad not gone! sil" answered the man, shaking blaand-tound that the snow had been drives, even

so far in his clange of sentiment, Yet with her natural modesty and shrinking from blame sasting, she reprochait herself for grudging to her friend that friendship which she had herealf invited Philip to bestow.

The next day was Iurely, with á olonelles aky, and the marriages departed. Some grumbling anned and bad to be resisted, on the part of the drivers, brunnse five persons' were crammed into one earrings. Mra. Sidebottom pointed out that the driver would walk. That was true. was the reply, but not Horpenal war Hench, moreover the horses wald uol draw

What conld be do frber? or was it pos- sible for him to assist ber F to be to her the wise friend she desired? If he had made her ne gastric two years so it would have boon another matter. Lo scould be thrown insel al her feot-metaphorically, of course--pret ask ed her to take him as her guide, protector, and friend, to tie up her fature with llc, and so gaub would have contribited something to the other to take up what each lacked. Then what a diferent, sort of life his would have been Fis present mode of existence seas kimlar, only bet ter in quality, to that he had led before; cas had been a sordid drudgery, the present was

* did the driver. taking off bis hat.. Fut ish dat? But ja. Edelweiss. Fon stre?”

head like a poised Ching mandarin.

"All about there? anywhere P" asked Philip, spenking very lout, as thongh by loudness he coski mike the man comprobend.

"Oh! if it is anywhere I can find it easily." The man shook his head and again pointed to a snow peak over which a flm of cloed was form ing, then being blown away, theu forming again Do you monu that it is not out there P. naked Philip. "I knew that na well as you. There are only ice and snow yonder. Bless may woul what idiots these men aro !!

mammed, hard up the sleeve by his doseent. Ho was safe where he lodged, en roer, sud be shook ant the snow from no love and then the other. In doing this he found the bunch of Edelweiss, He did not, so it, he fold it by his sleeve; it lad been carried there by the snow. He did not. What throw it away, he left it where it was.

"That tar-" was he to do? His situation was proariou.

Te might tan giddy and fall over. rible fascination thers is in an abres might lay hold of him and draw him down. Artemisin und spoken of that fa elvation, the fascinatin of despair. Now he felt it.

I tried to scramble up, but the shalo slipped away bagot his feel, and he was fois, is an agony of terror, recover his former place on firm rook. It was not practicable to second He leaned back against the stus, that driaped and ran with waler, the melting of the now overhead, the unionsution of the foame from the river bangust. The water beneath. The water condenaed alston his forehand and ran off his brows-water cold us i worked hollows in the loose soil, the water set tied, and soaked his fingers and turned them donti with cold.

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Philip could not sleep during the night that followed the expedition to the Ober Alp Hie wind was occupied with what he had heard.

Then he went back into the ins to equip him- thought of the poor girl sold by her mother of more than four up the St. Geithard rond to the self with gaiters oud strong boots, and to feel keri'nde apprenticeship, of the risks shé kud ng-

Hospice. There was still goow over a consist his stink, with a obamais on for a handle, that dergone: hoautiful, young, attractive. He table tract; however, at length the diferencn he had bought. While he was engaged fasten- ved in his bed. What world become of Lor was overene by the proviso of a small extining his leggings, he heard the voices of the young old who stand exposed to the dangers that bonypient-two and a half franes oxfce-throw Indies outside the hous. They are starting et her and not, as als half-thronened, through energy into the horses, increased their for a walk. Iresently he descended from his horalf over! What could be done for her P

porter of tription, so that they consented for that room and studied the map of the district, kas Sho had spoken of the frondar of ber lite price to draw fire instead: f four pereaus up the pandud in the salle, till he thought he had riving at to existence, but too great freedon scout from Hespenthal to the Hospies. In one wall impressed on his brain, after which he a maypal: it had palled on the girl, and she had the carriage, tha In front, at Mrs. Sidobottom, led forth. The guide was no leagar antside put a her hands, pleading to be fitted with light Jaust and the Captain, and our of the guts, the The afternoon was verging for a close, and to at strong minnacles, What a contrast was youngast. In the other currisce were Salons one would be likely to gaire his services, lo be found betweer bis 65 and here! Ho lnd band is Dumom, I hilip, and the two other supposed, consequently head refired to the

ramper and hedge about with restrictions; sko Labarta gizl

lewer room of the Hospice on a level with the Was it that there was rhythm in the fall of had enjoyed an excess of liberty. Virine, says But Philip did not remain long in it; at the road, where the drivers and earriors, the guides; the water, or was it that his paleos bout biavo left the Gedoras, rud all olaims must be Aristotle, is to be found in a happy modina, a step as it above the little picturesque clustor and pasta were regaled with sour wide, er and gave rhythm to the continuous thunder i not virtue only, but the plenilure and manifold of house, sturol. ard castle that constitute

Philip was relieved to a that the follow was Io erald not tall. He heard the throb of sound ness of life cu only for itself in a happy Haspeth, he got me and walked The banks no longer thore. He might he wanted to or it assed to fm to be the ratio of the malium between excess of freedom and opprewers overgross with the Alpine rhodosiondron, coueth him and show him the way, and it machinery of his mill at Mergatroyd multiplied sive restriction. Phüip was and ever had boon as dones bursting out of the low olivo gror would have been irkecme to trudge beside a man to infinity-

His fat bad glowed with the exorcise, but now conscious that his abilities hat not born allowed bugs, and Philip bastoned to pick banches for with whom it was not possible to converse be- dee expansion in the career into which be bed the larias. By a pingular chance the bout sides, Edelweiss was to be found crywhere they began gradually to loga heat, nu turn stone bed; and this American girl with lower and those best arranged went in Mads Lombardi had said, it looked for on the cold. Tu time, they would equse to have feeding in doubtless splendid capabilities of mind and heart Darknes.

rocks. These guides made difcnities about them, then in unalmas and wearinous his known ' had allowed them to ras rict and dissipate their

fading it, so as to induce the initiated and would buckle under him, and he would shoot fragrance in uututored, wil -pood nuts. When she

ensily pervaded to ungage them to direct them long, Es a diver into the black vok. How far fixed her great dark eye on him, shut a trill

to spot whern it grow. Philip rolved to go down was it to the water-lodeath--he wondered passed threat, h hùn ! and when she took his handl

He hold his dirty brows cap to Philip and by himaa Ho would not go far, he could net World In fer-he cousions of the shock over tire run up his vefies, and broke into a blaze and showed bita tuft of white Rowers nose bis way: there were no yawning clanss the edge before he went into the water or rash FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, PENANG, -bir hoort.

ANU SINGAPORE: soon the like before. thongh me vat of wool. Phlip had ever down which he might turabia that he could see, with his head against a rock? He had heard

and avalanches, he was told, fell in the early fellow clerk say that as he was drowning the ] 31 Hearstrip "Arn these found hero, in these mountains spring. He must de somo "elimbing, of cours, whole of his past life rochód before his agend dawohl round, here. I'p high: Sheet" bannise the tourists would have picked all the spread itself out as a panorama, a succession of The man petuted with his whip to the rosky Edreiss within reneh on but sides of theroones, in a moment of time, trenty years unhasing arrival from the above ports, Consignees heights Shy grow up very high, dat lower rond, and rust so able to places they had not folded leisurely in one wond displayfor every of earre by her are hereby informed that their you give to your loaf !".

́nosnaked, but he would not go into any dangor: incident, not frowded but in segaenes, and allgools are being landed at their risk into the s ***Lost P

he world koup his eye on the Hospice, or at articulate, Would it be so as he wont over the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf Jash" The man winked. put his hand font, the road. Along the road is trudred in edge, in the span of time between the rocks anal Godews Company, Limited, at Kowloon W to his hant. To our louf-shutz! You an. his heavy boots till he came to a great wonthe-whisk he tord and the clash and extinction he whence delivery ny bo obtained. derstand."

Optional cargo will be forwarded unless beaten cincitix, that cashed the biginning of the low His hoart grow faint; and he felt in hica Philip flushed dark. He was hot with walking descent on the Italian side. The cross was paint the qualm that a bad sailer knows as the vessel uoise to the contrary be given befors Koon

Let me have some it that flower. Yen shallot dull red, but the paint had pooled away in plunges into a drop sun frongh, Lave is back. No thank you, not your had." patches, blistered by frost er suu. Philip locked Bat-rely be would be sought by the people The en pulled the Russoms out from the up wouderingly at it. How out of phen it sound, at the inn. Certainly he would branight, but in Filded drudgery. The difference was in the dirty elbbon that retained them. Day is dy. these, in that wilderness of bare-rook and pace what diretion rata they look for him? How jective the qualifier not in the subdates of But on should aboo when dey frosh."

now He seemed to be in the midst of a pri- trace him in the mist low suppose be vas which the stuff of has life was aids up. He had Pilip took the tale favora ta thun side of mæral world, which had not yet begun to probelor the surface of the ammoth quilt et sae in How to devote the sume attention to figures and the carriage.

dano group trees and herb, the fowl and living the Val Tremola. sankut of sight, hanging technicalities and details as bafore. The frame,

"Imed at khusus enid, "The man calle hunts-all round was utter silence. the world over a boiling torrent? And now down pist techrionlitics, details were formerly xe ntive to them--no I cannot say the name,"

around was lifeless. The sun was behind the Philip man a thread at lver; it starti conveyancing, they new scorned linon maru- Fd-wriss," and enlous. “I have aron it greit wel of snow gleier mountains, and the bin. and he looked up the Bne to so a glimps facture. Such acquainierces as he had forud dried in the shon willows. It in time.",

vapour that was collected, like smoke on its head, of the noon appear above the hole throngh at Nottingham had not been interested in aneh Edelweiss runs the Noble White dower," so that the prospoot crazed to be that of a which he had fallen. The fog must have deurid beyond their business, and the acquaintances boasid Mia Durham. It grens far from bunau world such as existed when there was light bub away, or be chnging medially to certain mean- had formed at Morgatroyd had their interests habitation, and is much sanght after I bave the pan was uncroute. And in the centre of tais tops. If the man were ear than the concontested on their business. Art, literature. never found, it myself, and neser ind any fresh this inshoate, unvitalised world, stool the orci. search for him emit be prosecuted with some science had been to thosa ho knew at Netting picked given to mo

tx. The mountains loated down on-it, the chimice of sucess. Bat Philip was not over- ham, and were to thoes ha now at Mergatroyd.

glaciers frowned ca it, as a thing of to-day, as condout. HiLowers of endrende were sub- namespot ideas. Was life worth living in

though they said, "We were before ever young, He raised his foot and stamped on the! such surrosodiags, tied to sneh a contins? Tanid that man as he gets older it," he said. Then be walked on.

fitosible to get any, you shall have wera draud of, und wo shall be long after raz rack; he could feel the shock in bis joints but

kind bar passed to believe in self-devotion, and they wore dand. His hands were stiff. Feir risk, into the Godowns of the Kowloon ilizes the currents of his blood chicks

The fore rriage was stopped, and Mrs. Site, has came to laugh at every croed save the idole-pat bis flugera into his month, but this only wharf nul Godown Company, at Kowloon, the artori, veins resaels of heart and bottom was ending with Claudine Labarte, try of self."

nomentarily restored vitality. After the fool bratu.. tl ke furred waterpipes and cinated whom she had persuaded to get oal with Jor "Thoa Phlip diverged from the road, and being had gone the tausenter power would become whence azúpe from the wharves delivery may

ba obtiioon. bailers they can no lange act. Bus was aut and pick thes, thus leaving the captain and gan to climb Theraus a valley opening here para vend. He was pet hungry, but squeamish Optional forwarded unless the life to which he was condemod, with its Janet by themselves.

from the highest peaks, down which little villa looked again at the man, and continued current aliatellectum) lifa-a mekanising of shall be beyout the fun where Bevors grow, so man? Philip know that he ang lasing bed it, we must make the tast of our opportunity now, ranch of his individuality, almost in spor Miss Labarta," fanity that had boon lodged in in by the

Then Mr. Sidebotton full back to where Greater, and was growing more and Lære into a Philip was and took his are, and presed it, looks weldne, ko his spinning jeunes al steemed up at him humorously and said, “I lare a bit Iams He thought of Salonie Had she may of news to tell you. Is is going to propose

And now the white ry' of the moon sncta kes ontside the "roud of ordinary life? Was That is why I have got Felicité out of the car.clear air things far off appeared oloso, and dimen-down into the gulf below his feet and disel sed she not an ennobled sweeter fedging bene risga

sions as well as distances were deceptivo. Foshoot of the purest, mos sparkling silras tha! keeper? She had bra med educated but herWhoLambert P

found green carpats of dwarf mmpion, studdet leaping torrent as it danced over a ledge into mind did not naturally soar into the ideal world.

with pink. Rower, dense amose, ind in the bugsuttor darkness, into which ne moonray goald dire oldanilla staking their debately fringed purplus Buddmly from above a mass of snoe detached belis-but no Edelweiss, Disappointed in is itself and felt past him mass so big that had it search on the flops which hat promised, he emitten him it would have carried him dows crossed the brook and crept along the flank with it.

Would an like anuse ? asked Philip * Very much indood,” answered Artemisia,

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marotony, iti evnstraint, ita isolachon Iron the Before loug," said Mr. Sidoboltum, "we fall; and on the Aruk of the mountain which walking it engedy; it slit toward and abone-antia to the contrary bo given before 4.P.MA RACE, Queen's Road East

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It went up, spasetically, like the grasshoppers, to Janet.. Have you not seen it coming " a little way, and was done on le fest agila directly. She was interested in her baby. axious to have her house neat, the cobwebs All away, the linen in perfect order, all the towls

of the opposite mounti he would teru The side of the hole to the snow-dome grand market and numbered. the sorrants in thorongh

its shoulder and got to o ile well the nanon and ate wore and stilt more out of it. activity, the quotients for the cake and puddinga

How can the ben difficulty ?"

exposed to the ant; that which he had just Philip looked with fear he felt that when the measured in onlon, zot garaeil. She wna le- "Oh, she any think it too soon for them to get explored was, he nor porcolved, shut off from whole of the moon had passed beyond that open- voted to her flowers also-he recollected the married when Mrs Carosth died so recently, but vertical rap by the mountain ridge south of ing, and not another my fell into it, when vrais hyacinths, and certainly they bud filled his room Then they can postpone the marriage.” it. He groped and serazabled, turned back, went the darkness of that vault would become niter. with fragman and anticipations of spring- Viddiefalet Of course 104

Always higher, und long lost sight of the Hospice. had hope would die away from his heart, and he post But he had sent her to sleep by reading sival strike whilst the iron is hot That is Edelweiss pot, indood, remembered to look for it, when sad- full. Addison's "Spectator," and when he tried in your hand, is it? Oh, could you unge to douly he was enveloped in dense white fag. He But as bestand up. Taleting the slipping away "Shakspere" he found that whole! no insight find gest a mob to fad some quite fersk, for could, however, see the sny through it like a rop-of the moon, he saw sharp cut against it a black into the characters, aud accepted the beanties Lambert to present to Janef. It is the correct per di, bas aly for a mate, nd then it sak something, and houd, aby the roar of the water, What. Philip asked with a tremor, what if he thing in the Alps. The graceful accompanibebiné a ridge, at least so be supposed, for it was the discordant souls of a bark. He was found:

extinguished gradually. He must now retrace his found by one of the Hospice dogs. had never mot Safɔs, and had uct Artown!

will try to get some," said Philip.

steps, o dare not adrace, ha thonght he could The Arst gildiners. of renewed hope almost Than indeed he would, have been transported on

tie ramamhared several nvorcame kim. Ho trembled as in a fit, and les Lambert, you go, will be too much engagad find his way back. strong wings out of to world of commn-place, with Jon to go far himself bagides, he is not budmarks rock, on the top of which was so knees bent so that nts by a suprere effort of and the sound of comwn talk, and the murky ably to the great exertion. Climbing has a dwarf shrub, like a wig worn by an ult follow the will could he bince then apoia.

He believed atmosphere of vulgar interests, lato a region deteriorating effect on the trouser-kiser. it

he know at Nottingham, and, a furrow which. if he heard shouts but was unrestain. where he would have taken off his half acquired asked then baggy. You will get him some *** he followed it must lead Him to the brock. But What followed remained gyw sfier confused lebils of formality, his shyness; his cemfroma-

I will garching for telweiss when we he eoon forud that he had lost all sense of direc in his memory. He heard some Italian words To himself betion: the disapposvance of the sun had taken from in his ear, hate or felt somsare by him, was bim the only olus as to the paints of tlui cow pass grasped, a rope fastened round him, he based He was ho He sat down for a-mengunt, and | bimself encouraged to make an effort, tried to vipal, his face, the water was stretuning off it, ramble, helped by the pe, broke through the He was not as yet alarmed, only sexeded any, was in the upper rold again, was surround-NOLISH AND CHINESE especially at his haviar made this expedition ined, hui brands poured down his throat. vain Ile would have to return without the Then he was seized by the hand and shaken. Edelweiss.

"Old fellow! Phil! Pou my woril you have

tent of a declaration

rss and angularity, and Leonis light-hearted, reach the 11o-pice," sin Philip. trasy, and independent. Io dream we sometimes mattered, Bus nos for Lambert and Just." hur ging ourselves to be flying; we rise from the round and labour inkfutigably with our nema as wings; und Philip was now dreaming, khongb

net usleap. neying that he could part with som F

CHAPTER XLVIII,

TXAPPED.

had formed in the bisius. The air was old.

of his prarity and by an effort maintain himsel£| For the last him of the ascent the carriages in another sphere. He had missed bis way in passed through, sow, no conlidnous but be life; he was never draigned to become a piece of twean welle cut in the avalanches and drifts that plockwork, but to enjoy life, seize it with both hexis and hold it fast ud drink the mingled oup to the drega, crowned with roses. Hitherto he had not suspected that the bload in his Brieries was an offerrescing wine; he had sap posed it very still.

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WITH HE PUNTI AND MANDARIN PRONUNCIA PIAN. That is old Farris's head with the wig thrust given us a turn. We have been hunting yeu An ago Chinese Dictionary, published st back!" he mid, as a pedale of rolled rook np.everywhere."

Daily Trees, Oflice, Hongkong, The grand was so wet through malted and pears thron the mist. Bel when he took a "Lambert!'

For comprehensiveness and practical servic that Philip and Ms. Sidebottom and Milesecond look at it be doubted.

All the new "Yes, Phil, and who'd have thought to find this Work stands murivalled. Labarte were obliged to rio. The walls of

| worths which the Chinese bpro of late years been i "I wish I had brought a whisky flask with you traped under the shor 27. sow had fallen in here and thers, so that theme, be muttered, "I am beginning to feel y The men of the party arged immediate move.compelled to coin to expose the numerous ol Lorses were obliged to flounder through The ache in my anses".

ment to restore ciroulation. Philip's hand, when jects in turbinery, photography, telegraphy, What was to be done for Artemisia? Tt scenery was bleak and wintry. The ladi He storabled on, and now. to his alarm, sas dropped by Lambert, was seized again and hold and insolenso genurally, which the rapid advanos 300MS IN COLLEGE CHAMBERS.” would be laburan, not to be consiled with shivered: A length the lake was reached in that the dakuess was chasing in rapidly. He tightly, but he had lost feeling it. Now could of foreign intions has imposed upon them, aro conscience, to turn away, to bast her off, which the Ress has its squees, and a little be had got considered, when be started, that in the he see clearly, bo rus dazzled by the light-thoher given in extense. Each and every word is the entreatal has to be her friend and helpher yond it the roots of the Hospice and the ins South of Europe there is no twilight, and that brilliance of the moon and the glare of the show fully illustrated end explained, forming exercises with counsel. But how could be assist her were visible. In ten minutes the shivering night comes after day wit out hours of grace. after the darkness below.

for students of a most instructive nature. Bot A drowning despairing girl aried out for halp party was astenibled in the walle manger, which

Now it shod upon him that what the guide

Who is that laughing P he asked, suddenly, the Court and Pauti pronunciations are given Could be suffer her to sink! Hid he not pro-

was heated, and was aylering dianny

Ob-Miss Daba" swored Lambert

the accents being carefully marked on the bait mised her is assistance?

The monks have ben baatshed for many bad weant when indicating the mountain top

**And-who is that crying ?!!

principle. hitherto attained. The, typography displays the access of an attempt to make the yes, and the Hapive let by the Canton of wrested in sapour yas--not the Edelweiss grew

Chinese and English type correspond in the size Teesio to an inakooper of Airolo, who with bis thera, tnt that the weather was going to change,

of body, thereby effecting a viat economy of worthy wife and family have besu in no way this fag to descend. Ho harried on, but did inferior in hospitality, ie care for the pro not know in which direction he was going. He

share, achieving a clearings not presionar travellers, and in providing for the comforts on a steep slope of anow that stretched ba

xttained, and dispensing with those vast margins! fore him apparently interminably, lost itself ixUTLER

and racist spaces which have heretofore oluirac- Sigora Tabardi, stout, hals and suniliu an apple-pie hed, a cold sheet of white below, he vapoor and curled over and enveloped him as in

terized Chinese publications. was in the Hospice exórfing all her energies to

for shove, hind And, at that moment, he

“I am positively determined" aid Mrs. Side- bottom, next day, that we shall go to-morrow to the hospice. I want to see it, and the dogs. ad the scenery. So I have ordered carriages, and what is more we will say then a day or o; then, sack, as like cari descend, the Tal Tremola, and such as like on club, the "Pizzo Centralo,"

of the mal then were the Brotherá of old.

I have no objection," ananered Salome get fos realy for the large party that had come

the white, starry, nodding head of an Edelweiss

We must not leave Andermatt till we havola Wines the best of North Italy, were to be a da to rook above him, almost within reach. been arer the pass and seen the beanties or terhad, and vel iu various forms but always veal, rore of the further side. What do you uy, call it what you wil

Philip P

"I shall be glad."

He stood up from table.

"Where are you going, Philip?"

To Miss Darbum, to invite li-r to join us.” "Of course," said Mrs., Sidebottom. Tot me son. we are eight. Oh it on matter, oue

the wondly Howór was burdened with the mois. tara that had co-ulensed on it from the fog, and was banging over the stone to shake self free.

With an excluation of satisfiction, Philip sprang up the slope, caught the rook with the hook of his stick. and tore the Edelweiss away.

fegsed

A whisper in his cur-It is 1-Salome.'!'

(To be continued.j

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"Oh! my goudceas, gràcious me!** «rist M Sidobottom, there is a dog- Moont St Ber nard dog'! Ou! the size the beauty! It must become the rage Why I have heard of more than two haulrot ponds being given for a talip, and what would not be given for such a dug. A Had the arools of his stick been what it pro- best. Na better chipped. thts--and with palmonary complaint las, that of the girls can sit outside. The drivers develops on the plains." always walk going up hill, so that there "You do and on to say, aunt, that you are will be five in ons carriage, and firo in be going to invest in, shares in the Rumple Yeo dog, other. And Miss Durham wil pay her shara breeding establishment?" vid Philip, satirically

Beides, if there is any climbing and exur Catonet Yeo are you speaking about?" inter- sirning to be done she will pay half of a guide" rupted Bliss Durham, eagerly. Do tell me to arrest his descent. lie tore up the snow, twist THE BESTly que quality signed.

But-strange caprice in salons, the pat berdo you think he will establish his claims to thoed the stick in his hand, and shotfurther down- head on Philip'a nem, and wid, in a law tone, title of Schofie'd ?"

shot instantaneously out of the fog inló dusk, in "No! Phili; no!"

Ho can establish his title to that name when which everything was distinct, and below he say Where he pleases," said Philip, and once inre, a great awhip of mow like a shot. He looked

Philip locked at how with surprisa.

bia chamoig' born, would hava been sufa, He would have stained in weight; but as it was only bone, and the curve mana aeross the grain, it snappel, and Philip shot Bowe the snowy doclivity, Ho still grasp the tuft

of Edelweiss; he thrust his stick Into the show

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join the party? She was her friend. She had got notion that person again in our hearing, was being tossed. Ha drave kis heels into the boen en desirous that Le and Miss Durham should Oh! ba-ja this gines. "the fablo-are some now, his elbows, his stick, to retard his descent, conclude peace, and now that prane was agreed draggled speciere of the white fluffy tower and suddenly dropped. Then found himself on upu, Salou said, No! Philip, po when you call Edelweiss. Perhapsont landlady Bignora rubble, still sliding, and brought up with a jerk For Conscisseurs the following Wized love proposed to invite the Chicago girl to join them, Lopbardi, will tel as if it grew none this in." by a rock. For a few minutes Philip was us- How capricious! How aureiscuable Kätorze wix. Ob, Bignor," answered the stiah we una," it conscious. He was aware of a shock, a slide, Se forins a wien, hustens to necord it, and lo! is to be fodud by the searchers, but I have vor darkless and noise, that was all. But--where so bangs mek and intensified.

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a dissonance of mood tot s'een Philip' and Zalewe; ; When dinner was Enished the afternoon wes | pitchs durkoves; only shore could be see the bols neither could account for it, and neither at advanced. Philip went out in front of the ion, through which he had fallen, coking like a ailed tempted to account for it. He was silen; ha on the platform of rock upon which it is built. silver-grey disc. The aft about him wandered about the hotel sad the grounds with Some of the ladies taking a stroll to the head with tonnder, the pulting thunder each as be e hope to light on Miss Darban. He did not of the Val Tremols, bot determined not to go had beard at the fall of the Reass at the Devil's go into the calle or on the terrace, into the road, for, they maid mares their strength for the Bridge, such as he had heard that very day where lug-room, or about the garden searching for ensuing day. Hald not taer to accom-the river plunged over a wall of rock in the He did not ask the waitaia where she was, but pans The He had thor scheme in his gorge above Hespraihel, The air creover was be looked about wherever he went, expecting to hund. Outside the ion was a guide banging us fall of water here beneath as it had been above. see ber, and when he found her not in reading, about, soking nnd calling to auch us passed in ju the fog, but the particles bore were much Iarger. This was the spray cast ap by the rng. rom or alle, on torms or in the garden, he felt the road. that the place was aiuterating, and he must Philip signed to him that he desired to spanking, looping, headlong Trafor in the abyss. purforce go elseware,

to him, and the man ermo to him with alacrity, bot How far down was it to that torrent? Ego Salume was gentle as usual, spending much shock bis band, and paintud to one of the snow could not penetrate, sur could not tell Tho time with her baby, showing it to the guale peale. Hu could speak only Italian and Phillpulsa suw overhead ry.rberated with the THE STORM FAMPULET has been who were so gracicas as to antice it, and emiting only English They were obliged to boring, boom of the water, and cast it back into the guit with pleasure when it was admired, but she was danih show Philip showed it the fower of it east back the notbrown spray. He mild Cash from et hers if not as happy as she had best. II Edelweiss he had brougle Dom the glis in the 55 na water, be pola enna tidus, are the gap therto the only jar to her content was her bustable inside.he man nodded his bood Philip, overheet. bend's prejudice against Artemisia; sex the jar raised bis eyebrows in note of quary and pointed arose she did pot explain to bermult: how #

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