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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH by McClur, Newspaper ) ' Syndicate.) Homer Hume bad met Yvette when be was returning borne after 18 months overseas. Being a war, worker for the Y. H. C. A., sbe happened to be at the pier in New York when the Ship bearing home some of the boys who were fortunate enough to be re' turning pulled in. Yvette had arrived in this country a Month before the European war broke out.' Few women in the community tolerated her, for they believed her place in France, helping her countrymen with their problems of War. There were still others who thought she had been exiled because Of some crime. There was nothing too wrong for them to think of her. A battle was raging, as usual, in No. 77, dwelling place of Homer and Bernard Durand." If I had thought you were going to be such a fool, Id never have in-trodueed you to her." Now, listen here, Homer, If you think I am going to argue with you, youre badly mistaken, cause I've got something else to do. Well, Im not going to argue with you, either, so dont get all excited but I tell you shes going to the dance with me, Homer Stanley Hume, get me?" Will she? Well, Im from Missouri Do you suppose shed turn me down to go with you, when I asked her first? Do you suppose shed turn me down for you? Even if you have known her longer than I have. 1 Thats all right ; she feels different toward me. You you see Im going to marry her that Is if If shell ' have me. Ha! Hal If shell have you. Is right! Say, you, if you didnt wear glasses Td trounce you right here! indeed , serious might Something have happened then if someofte had not knocked on the door. There was a note, for each. The envelopes were of the same dainty size, and pink, and addressed ip the same handwriting. iEach boy tore open his letter Immediately. A sigh of disappointment escaped the lips of Homer, and a darnlt from Bernard. Neither would give the other any information as to what his note contained; each new it was from the same person. About seven oclock of the evening of the class dance Bernard entered the room to find Homer sitting by the window, evidently very much interested in Virgil. Arent you going to the dance, Homer?" asaed Bernard, in a very troubled voice. Im Professor Carnes is giving us an exam, on Virgil first class tomorrow. Ive got No, nOt going tonight to study. Mighty poor excuse, Homer. I bet Yvette wouldnt go. "Well, all right then, she wouldnt but I dont see you getting ready to take her. She refused you, too, didnt she?" . Its none of your business whether sbe did or not, and if you weren't a firm friend of mine, I wouldnt tell you that "much ! ,., During the course of the evening neither left the room, but studied dil' igently and retired early. The next morning Homer cut his very important chera class and went riding with Yvette. It ; was a crisp, sunny morning in November, and with the only her riding beside him, Homer felt as though he could conquer the world. She glanced bewitchingly at him, her eyes full of mischief, her white teeth gleaming, and, touching her horse with her whip, she leaped forward and gave the junior member of the Hume family a merry chase for half an hour. As he caught up to her they stopped their horses for breath, and, leaning across, he put his hand over her small gloved ones. Yvette, dear, I I wanted to tell you ever since Ive known you that I I love you, and want you to be my wife!" She placed her tiny gloved hand across his mouth and hushed him. He grasped her hand and placed it to his lips and kissed it tenderly, again and again. Dont, please don't, Homer. You cant imagine how fond I am of you, but I can never, never marry you. You know there Is a lot of scandal about me and Yvette, please dont speak about that. You must know that I dont believe one word of it. No; somehow I know you dont, but you must admit that I am somewhat of a mystery. Well, Ill tell you. .There Is a certain reason why I am In America. I can't tell you why just .vet, but I will some day, and maybe very soon. Now lets, ride; the raorn-- ' ing Is too wonderful to waste. The same afterno n Bernard took Yvette to tea at the I'eacoek tearoom. After tea they hired an open carriage and drove through the park adjoining the school grounds. They had gone some distance when Bernard spoke. Yvette I love Miss Darquese you. Will you marry me? Why, Bernie, you surprise me ! I never thought you wduld take our friendship so seriously." But I do. Ive always loved you. Tve loved you .luce the first time I met yon. Im sorry, Bernie, so sorry, that you TwJ that way. I can never marry , , Do you Is It someone else? Pardon me; Pve no right to ask that? Well, yes, there is someone else," she whispered. Pll bet its that roommate of mine; he Bernie, will No, it isnt Homer. you please tell me why you two boys cant get along together? I think its a shame! . The following evening when the boys returned to their room after dinner they found two notes on the threshold. The envelopes were of the same small, pink kind that they had received once before, addressed In the Each same familiar penmanship. boy's face was a study as bis eyes scanned the sheet befdre him. Both letters were worded alike, but each thought the message was meant for only himself: Dear Homer (or Bernie): t should be very glad to have you call at my house next Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock. I have some news that will be of a great Interest to you. Hoping to see you then, I am always your sincere friend, YVETTE DARQUESE. found two very evening Monday puzzled young men ascending the steps of No. 3382 Governor road at exactly 7:30. It was Bernards disposition to ring the bell again as soou as Homer's finger had left the button. They both tried, to enter the door' at the same time, and the consequence was that a serious fight might have taken place had the maid not come and asked the gentlemen for their wraps. As they entered the luxurious sitvoice ting room a soft, welcomed them. 'Good evening, boys; Im so glad you have come. She took them by the arm and led divan dithem to a where In of the front fireplace, rectly a log was crackling under the flames. The three sat down, Yvette In the center. They sat watching the fire for a few moments, the boys gazing at her now and then like timid youngsters look with admiration and amazement at the daring heroine In a movie serial. Presently she spoke. Now, I have heard that you two boys do a lot of your quarreling over me. It hurts me very much to think that I should come between you boys and spoil such hours of friendship as you might enjoy together.", Well, Homer always Sh Im not going to let elthe.r of you say a word till I am all through. I asked you here tonight in order that I might straighten out some things that I know are troubling you both. First, I shaii tell you that my name is not Yvette Darquese! My name la Gwendolin de Farge. What? gasped Homer. . . well-know- n 1 Huh! stammered Bernard. I am In the employ of the French secret service. Shortly before the war broke out It was found that a certain Gouchard, Henri Gouchard, had given some valuable Information concerning the state of affairs In France to the enemy government, for which he received a large sum of money. When the officials had tracked him to his apartment In Paris they found he had escaped to America. Having secured permission from the United States government to arrest him In this country, In the name of France, they chose me. for the mission. At times I became very discouraged, for I found no tface of hint. You know a week ago last night there was an automobile accident not far from r here, and an unidentified man -- was injured. Last Thursday I was called out of my bed at' four oclock In the morning to go to the SL Agnes hospital. This same man that had been picked up by the side of the road after his car had gone over the embankment had been' delirious and had spoken something about France. The doctor In charge immediately recognized him, having seen his picture in newspapers and read his description. He telephoned to the police. Then they sent for me. He died before I left. I Immediately cabled the French government and they sent word that I could return as soon as I wished to France and and my hus- Clvasm Lake Front nf "Kln 7 '. Select Classy Car for Wreck. An observant woman was recently riding with a friend In a flivver when another car bumped Into it, tossed it Into the gutter add went bliiliei,,' on its way. The two occupants of the flivver were sent to a hospital for re- pairs. We were both wearing pretty said the observant good clothes, but we looked rather dis-- . woman, heyeled in the hospital. We received considerate treatment for a time, and then someone asked what sort of car we were In. My companion told him told him truthfully. : The temperature dropped 40 degrees and we had difficulty thereafter in getting any at tentlon at ail, and I never did get r whlskbroom to brush the dirt from ' my coat, next time I go to a hospital The after an automobile accident I shall tell all and sundry that my Roils New Royce is a complete wreck. York Sun. . of the Rockies "Is B' JOHN ; ; best-know- n SHERMAN P THE sheer face of Longs PeaKi Chasm Lake front of the King o' Rockies Is scaled at last I Good DICKINSON exheadlines, but not literally and the actly true. Nobody has. climbed ever sheer , face of Longs and nobody la will, for the greater part of it Y9 straight up and down for a thousand feet. But ascent has been made up the Chasm Lake front for the first time in the fifty-foyears since man set his f'ot on The Summit. And this Is a feat to set talking mountaineers all over the world.' For the mountain-climbers of all the world know Lougs Peak. Many from the ends of the earth have climbed it But the challenge of the Chasm Lake (east) front has daunted the boldest until. Prof.. r ; James W. Alexander took it up. I have looked upon Longs Peak from every point of the compass. I. have, looked ,np to the heights above from Chasm Lake. I have looked down from the heights above to Chasm Lake. .1 have seen the crest when the naked gray granite turned to ruby under the first touch of the sun rising behind the Twin Sisters, with the lesser peaks that rim Tahosa Valley still in the shadow. I have seen the crest haloed by the crimson glories of the sunset. I have seen it by sunlight and n by moonlight when it was white with snow. I have seen it black with storm-clouAnd for many an hour have I watched the sheer precipice of Longs from the front porch of my cabin on the slope.of the Twin Sistet-- (11,500) across Tahosa Valley. It Is distant six or seven miles of eagles Two of the small pictures s.ow Longs flight. (14,255), Meeker 'left, 13,911) and Lady Washington (right, 13,209) as seen from my cahln. I see .but the upper half of the precipice. The lower half and Chasm Lake are shut off from view by the great moraine thrown up by the ancient gla: cier that dug East Gorge. So I have stared and marveled that Nature could produce ns she has so tremendous t. thing as that giant precipice. For It is as if some Titan had split the great peak cleanly In two and had carried off one of the halves. No earthquake, mind yon 1 And no volcanic upheaval. A glaciers work In the ancient times, supplemented by the ceaseless labor through the ages of sun and frost, snow, water and Ice. And always have I said to myself: Opportunity knocks but once on a mans door and is gone.' Here she takes her stand and beckons. Does she lure man to fame or death? Yet the King, despite (lie menacing challenge, ef his East Front, is benign at times and often extends a genial welcome to the summer visitor. There Is a trail that winds and twists by Boulder Field and Keyhole and The Trough and The Narrows and The Homestretch to The Summit. And every foot of It is grandly scenic, as If the "King, had made this trail to show off his records of earth in the making. For ancient glaciers have left their Impressive records on all sides In gigantic chasms, gorges and moraines and in beautiful deep valleys with forests, lakes and streams., The Register on The Summit shows that one quarter of the successful climbers are women and the names of many boys and girls are there. Yet the ascent Is only for the d and the d and when Nature smiles on the endeavor. One of the small pictures shows how the climbers are perched between heaven and earth on The Narrows. But the view from The Summit, one of the great sights of earth, Is their reward. Longs Peak Is the crowning scenic feature of Rocky Mountain National Park, by far the most popular of the nineteen national parks, with an attendance in 1921 of 2V3, 737 approximately that of Yellowstone, Yosemil, Mens aainiej and CJJa- - der combined. This park Is perched on the Con. tlnental Divide and contains 51 named mountains over 10,000 feet, of which 13 are over 13,000 feet Pikes Peak (14,155), a hundred miles to the south of Longs, Is probably the mountain In the world. Inasmuch as more than three million people have ascended It by d and automobile highway. On some days more people stand on Its summit than ascend Longs' all summer. That Is a part of the glory of Longs to the end of time man will have to climb with band and : foot to gain And compared with the King of the Rockies Pikes Peak Is a shapeless bulk of rock I Professor Alexander is sure of Immortal fame among people. He is assistant professor of mathematics In Princeton university. He Is forty years of age, a of 165 pounds. Professor Alexander started alone from Chasm Lake In the morning. He surmounted the remains of the ancient glacier by cutting 76 steps in the Ice. This brought him to the foot of the precipice at eleven o'clock. The dotted line shows approximately his way up. He worked to the south, making his way up wherever he could find breaks in the rocks and could utilize chimneys. His devious, course led him under The Notch,-.- . Many times farther progress seemed impossible. Twice he was in danger from falling rocks. And a mistake at any stage would have meant death. He gained The Summit to the right of The Notch at 2 :20 p. m wrote his name In the register and 'i descended by the regular trail. : The. difficulty of the ascent may be judged by the fact that pretty much everybody thought Professor Alexander was romancing or had been overcome by altitude which In the Rockies ' covers more sins than charity. Professor Alexander made answer the next day d by taking with him Jack Mooraaw, the ranch guide, and repeating the feat. And still the doubting Thomases were many. In the meantime news of the feat had spread and seven memberrof the Colorado Mountain club ' were on hand to attempt the ascent the third day: Carl A. Blaurock, Dudley T. Smith, Frank Schemer, Herbert Wtrtman, Hermann Buhl--an- d Mrs. Buhl. They found Alexanders little cairns and followed his route almost exactly. Blaurock and Buhl headed and ended the party, which used a stout rope. The ascent took nine hours and the party did not reach The Summit till seven o'clock V and dusk. And the skeptics were all converted. (Nesot-tayaIs what the Arapahoes called Longs Peak before the coming of the white man from the Plains Longs and Meeker appear a double peak. , Lieut Z. M. Pike, U. S. A, for ' whom Pikes Peak Is named, put Longs on the map In 1806 as the Great Peak. Col. S. H. Long, U. S. A., next saw it In 1819 and gave it his name. William N. Byers, founder of the Rocky Mountain News of Denver, "made the first attempt to ascend Longs in 1864. He published a prediction that no man would ever stand on its summit. Four years later he proved himself a better mountaineer than prophet by leading a party of seven to The Summit. Former Judge L. W. Kepltnger . one of Shermans Bummers on the march from Atlanta to the sea and now practicing law in Kansas City, Kan was the man who found a difficult and dangerous way up to The Summit from Wild Basin (on the south) through the gerge that runs up to The Notch. Fifty years later, looking up at Longs from Tahosa Valley, he said : I am the last survivor of the seven that made ' the first ascent of Longs on the morning of August 23, 1868. And snmetin.es I feel as lonesome as I did the afternoon, before when I clung to the wall of The Notch, looking fearfully up at The Summit just above me ?nd no less fearfully down over the way I had climbed. A full mile below me lay Tahosa Valley and Estes Park. Something like 2,400 feet of precipice mn almost straight down to Chasm Lake. It was late in the afternoon. I couldnt go ahead and it (Jidnt seem possible to go back. Well, It was a long and tough 1tb. 1 was so late in getting down that jhe hoys . Scaled at Last . band. Your what? Your husband? Yes, my husband. Dont you see now why I couldnt marry either of I couldnt even tell you you boys? boy why until now. Now Its good-by- , for I shall sail early in the morning for dear old France and homel". The boys left the house together and walked down the street side by side. Suddenly they spoke in unison, and with the same expression In their voices She was the most wonderful girl and It was the first I ever knew time they ever agreed. Dmnyr Tourfi wtt fuAicttv cog-roa- m y ur difference. six-foot-er . s . Hewes-Klrkwoo- . Two-Guid- , . able-bodie- level-heade- ' -- , The late Edna Louise Smith of Aurora, HU whose life of philanthropic accomplishment was prematurely cut short last spring lu an automobile crossing accident, was an ardent r.nd able mountaineer. She ascended Longs Peak many times. One ascent was made at night in August ef 1915 under such unusual conditions that the National Park Service requested her to vrlte an account for use In Its booklets. Her story is a Rocky Mountain National Park classic. She and three w omen companions, with Shep ' Husted as guide, started from Tahosa Valley (9,000) at 11 p. m. In a heavy fog and balf-ralHer story Includes the . following;. After a short climb we were. In another world The fog was a sea of silvery clouds below us and from It the mountains rose like Islands. The moon and stars were bright, in the heavens. There was the sparkle In the air that suggests enchanted lands and fairies. Half way to Timber-Lin- e we came upon ground white with snow, which made It seem all the more likely that Christmas pixies just within the shadows of the pines might innr forth on a moonbeam. Above TimJ)er-Lin- e there was no snow, but the moonlight was so brilliant that the clouds far below were shining like misty lakes and even the bam mountainside about us looked almost as white as If At the western edge of Boulder Field there was a new marvel. As we approached Keyhole, right In the cehter of that aurious nick, in the rim of Bonlder Field shone the great golden moon. The vast shadow of the peak, made doubly dark by the contrast, made us very silent. Wheo we emerged from Keyhole and looked down Into the Glacier .Gorge beyond It was hard to breathe be--' cause of the wonder of it all. The moon was shining down Into the great gorge a thousand feet below and It was filled with a silvery glow. The lakes glimmered In the moonlight. Climbing along the narrow ledge, high above this tremendous gorge, was like a dream. Not a breath of air stirred, and the only sound was the crunch of hobrufils on rock. There was a supreme bush In the,j, jas If something tremendous were " about to ha fpipk' "Suddenly the sky, which had been the far-obine of a moonlit night, flushed with the softest and the stars loomed, large amethyst and and Intimately near, burning like tamps" with lavender, emerald, sapphire and topas lights. The moon had set and the stars were supreme... .ffXs we made our way along The Narrows the dNltn of that days dawn proceeded with kalel-- . dosdoplc speed. Over the plains, apparently without end, was a sea of billowy clouds,, shimmering with golden and pearly lights. One mountain range after another was revealed and brought close by the rosy glorv that now filled all the sky. Every peak, far and near, bore a fresh crown of new snow and each stood out distinct and Indl- -' vldual. Arapahoe Peak held the eye long. Torreys Peak and Grays Peak were especially beautiful. And far away, a hundred miles to the south, loomed ur the summit of Pikes Peak. Such a scene could last, but short time. An.U it was well for us, for tile moments were "ton- -' crowded with Sensations to' be long borne. Soon .? the sun bursfhflp from the ocean of clouds below. On The Sun? At all was bright and warm. . And In the bright of the new day we wondered whether we seen a reality or a vlalftn." . . n. . . new-falle- had started a rescue party and had toted wood and had lighted nlay fires. up from Timber-Lin- e But I bad found a way to The Summit. The next morning we angled to the left as we approached The Notch and finally came out on The Homestretch of the present trail. All seven of ns were then soon on The Summit Ater the firs? thrills were over, we searched for signs of previous human visitation and found none. We built a cairn and left a record. Maj. J. W. Powell, later of Grand Canyon fame, made a little speech. I climbed Longs the second time eight years ago over the present trail and I had to smile at the ' . snow-covere- d. 1 . ff ' v |
