"I had a terrible dream last night. ‘And
she’s—’ She broke off, a sudden light in her eyes. Every time he left a room, she chastised herself
bitterly for her own profound weakness. He was half-German and
half-Cuban she found out, and he was originally from
Florida where his relatives and sister still remained. There were the burnt papers
still in the grate. Exerting all his energies, and using the bar as a lever, he forced
off the iron band, which was full seven feet high, seven inches wide, and two
thick, and which brought with it in its fall the box of the lock and the socket of
the bolt, leaving no further hinderance. Mrs. "
The spinsters had no counter-philosophy to offer; so they turned to Ruth, who
had singularly and unconsciously invested herself with glamour, the glamour of
adventure, which the old maids did not recognize as such because they were only
tourists. There was no railway beyond Frutigen in
those days; they sent their baggage by post to Kandersteg, and walked along the
mule path to the left of the stream to that queer hollow among the precipices,
Blau See, where the petrifying branches of trees lie in the blue deeps of an icy
lake, and pine-trees clamber among gigantic boulders. Your career at
the bar had given you a command of language, also a self-control not vouchsafed
to us ordinary mortals.
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