Show 11G STUDENT LIFE cil and I was always glad to turn the job over to him because I hate it and it is difficult to get an assistant that I dare trust my best negatives to Ilis law practice didn’t seem to overwork him for he quite often came down during office hours Still I heard favorably of his work at times But about him there was a touch of moodiness that was almost He kept this concealed gloom most of the time but quite frequently I caught him with a look of helpless hopelessness on his face that was pathetic I was certain that he was rp against it good and hard about something but there was nothing in the confidences that he gave me to account for it Mollie came up one afternoon when he was there with the result that he began coming out here evenings and it was just two days until she had his story He and a friend had spent their vacation three years ago collecting art photographs of Rocky Mountain scenery through northern Old Mexico Arizona and Colorado for a Chicago publishing house When their collection was almost complete they had wandered up into R— County Colorado and had made Mrs Barret’s cabin headquarters for operations in the surrounding mountains A ten days’ trip into the high mountains east of there had been very successful and they were returning to the cabin intending to rest a few days then pack up their equipment and call Their the collection completed trail led down a canyon followed by a stream of larger size than most of the mountain creeks which ran by the cabin A couple of miles up from the cabin it had carved its way through a body of rock harder than the rest leaving perpendicular walls some thirty feet high Above and below this cut the channel widened and they saw that from the bottom of this narrow place two views could be obtained with the high walls for their margin one a particularly grand snowcapped peak up the canyon the other an excellent landscape of the less rugged pine clad mountains and valley below It was an opportunity not to be missed but it was then almost dark and they de- to return later The next morning his friend was indisposed but our lawyer was so enthusiastic that lie decided to try it alone He started very early in order to get cided the picture in all the lights possible and before it was light enough to work he was satisfactorily located on a large flat topped boulder in the stream in the bottom of the gorge On the side of the rock from which he had approached the water was not deep but the main current in much larger volume ran on the other side and went past him with lightning rapidity splitting itself among numerous large boulders in the canyon below Fifty yards above him on the side from which he came a chunk of the wall seemed to have slid into the stream and washed away A pine which had somehow taken root there |