Marooned at Night on an Alpine
Peakin a Furious Mountain Storm.
"If the cable should hreafcl” shud
dered Helen, gazing down the sheer
cliffs.
"Cable?” scoffed Warren. “No ca
bl« could pull you up this mountain.
That’s a cog wheel track. Look up
there ahead of us. Jove, it’s steep!
-Some stunt to run thie to the top.
Wonder if it's a government road?”
“Maybe it tells here,” turning to
her ‘'Lucerne” guide book.
‘‘The railway built U|i the stony
slopes of Mt. Pilatus took five
years to construct, and testifies
to the skill of Swiss engineers.
‘‘Trains run twice daily in the
touirst season. The ascent takes
11-2 hours.”
"Hope these dinky little engines
don't get stalled,” Warren leaned out
the window as they paused with creak
ing brakes. "Wouldn’t want to be
stuck up here.”
The vegetation had dwindled to a
few stubby, fir trees that alone sur
vived such arctic heights. The
ground was bare, except for patches
of hardy moss.
Slowly the four, small "hanging”
carriages were drawn upward, the
rocky cliffs growing more bleak and
barren.
"There’s snow!” eagerly Helen sight
ed a grayish-white patch. "I wonder
if that's the everlasting snow? Some
of It’s been here for centuries.”
They were ahove the mountain
streams now. above the roar of tum
bling waterfalls. Only the panting,
laboring engine broke the desolute si
lence.
'I can t imagine a hotel way up
here. If we could stay over night to
see the sunrise! They say it’s mar
velous. Listen to this," consulting
the guide book:
" 'On the summit of Mount Pilatus,
once the Inaccessible Mecca of all
Alpine climbers, now stands a modern
hotel, offering a comfortable night's
lodging to those who wish to view the
incomparable panorama at sunrise.’ ”
"Now don't spring any ‘all-nighr
stuff," growled Warren. "An hour up
hero's enough for me.”
"But, dear, we may never be here
again. It seems a shame not to— '
“Now drop it! We're coming down
with this car. Jumping Jupiter, look
at that overhanging cliff! We're to
tunnel up through that!”
Plunging into abysmal blackness
they came out above the projecting
rock*.
Bight lakes and at least a dozen
villages lay map-like in the valleys
below. How still and strange and far
away It all seemed!
"And we re only half way up! What
will It be like at the top'.’"
"May not see anything. Above the
clouds up there. Jove, It's cold," but
toning his overcoat.
"I wanted you to bring your sweat
er. What’re those light streaks on
that mountain way over there. Look
like veins of silver. Why, they're
streams!"
An hour more of steady upward
climbing, through the obscuring fug
like clouds—and at last they were
at the summit.
Only nine passengers in the four
carriages, they came out on the plat
form. awed to silence by their first
glimpse of a world above the clouds.
The guard announced in French
and English that they could climb to
the observation tower and then have
tea at the hotel before starting down
at 6.
By the aid of the stout hand rail
they scranbled up the sheer rock, an
additional 500 feet, to the lookout post
on the very peak.
Holding tight to Warren's arm, Hel
en stood on tiptoe to peer over the
protecting wall at the fearsome
depths below.
It was like looking down at the
world from another planet. A vast
sea of turbulent clouds, pierced here
and there by the loftiest Alpine peaks.
"It’s terrifying,” she whispered all
atremble.
One of the party, a Frenchman,
gave a shout to try the mountain I
echoes. After a long moment It re
turned in three uncanny, waiting vi
brations, as though flung back by
mocking gods.
"Oh, how weird," shivered Helen.
"Hear, you try it."
"Hello!" boomed Warren, clutching
his rap against the furious wind.
A long wait, so long that It seemed
the sound ha«l been lost. Then from
far off came three cries, “Hello! Hello!
Hello!”
Too awed for words, Helen swal
lowed an emotional lump.
Below them clouds piled on clouds.
Black clouds clinging to the grim
mountain tops that shouldered
through them. White clouds blend
ing with tho snow of other heights,
j all in savage gigantic chaos.
Helen thought of the peaceful val
leys, the blue lakes, the green fields
and sleepy villages, hidden far, far
below.
Aroused by Warren's brisk, "Let’s
have a look over the other aide," she
followed him across the platform.
Again on tiptoe ahe viewed an even
more terrifying panorama.
A rift in the clouds opened straight
down to dizzy, fathomless depths. A
sheer drop, as though the mountain
had been sliced off by sonj*» giant
knife.
"Oh,” shrinking back, still clinging
to his arm. "I can’t look! It gives
me a hideous feeling. I want to jump
over!"
Better not. Couldn t ■crape up
enough for a funeral," with mascu
line contempt for her timidity. "By
George, that's a peppy waterfll
down there!"
His steadying arms about her, she
again peered down to an angry gla
cier stream that sprang from into
rocks, hurling downward a straight
furious fall.
They were too far above to hear
Us wrathful roar, for no sound
broke the haunting stillness of that
remote height.
* "Jove, it looks black over there!
Wouldn’t relish a storm up here."
A mass of dark clouds that had
hung about a distant peak was now
drifting menacingly toward them.
The next moment, with the sudden
ferocity of mountain storms, came a
terrific roar.
Great guns, It's raining below us!
We'vo a front seat a a storm making
show."
A storm In the making!
Helen forgot her fear in the wild
chaotic scene below them. Wind
driven clouds crashed together emit
ting mighty roars. The mountain
gods, enraged, were hurling titanic
thunder bolts,
"That black cloud’s rolling up this
side. Come on,” Warren dragged
her away. “We'd better beat it to
that hotel.'
A blinding flash, another rendering
bolt, and the rain was upon them.
Too late to get to the hotel, they
all rushed to the shelter of the
cupola, huddling close together under
the small roof.
Suddenly a stout middle-aged wo
man, screaming something in French,
ran out into the storm. An excited
vociferous moment, and the others
followed.
A sign, boldly printed In four lang
uages, had caused their flight.
WARNING!
Do Not Take Shelter Under
This K i t During a Storm.
“That means lightning!" gasped
Helen. “That man we lr-ard about at
Geneva—In was struck under one of
these mountain sheds."
"We'll take our chances," grlmtned
Warren. "I'll not go out In that rain.
Jloly smoke. It's hailing, too.!”
It was dark now. The clouds en
veloped them with the blackness of
night. The sign was no longer visi
ble, but Helen was quiveringly con
scious of Its ominous warning,
“Oh!" burying her face against his
arm at a sharp spasm of light.
Another streak and a nearby crash
of rending rock!
"It struck — near here! Come,
come!” hysterically tugging at him.
"That'a pretty close," was his mut
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tered assent. "But I'm not keen on
sliding down these rocks In the dark.”
Through the blinding rain. Warren
ahead to catch her if she slipped, cau
tlously they groped their way down
the steep path, with only a guiding
rail to protect them from the yawn
ing abyss at the side.
Fifteen minutes of perilous prog
ress that seemed hours, and they
glimpsed a mist-blurred light from
the hotel.
Drenched and sniveling, they
crossed the porch and entered a long
room, dark and deserted.
“Nice, hospitable place," fumed
Warren. "Where’s the rest of the
bunch?’’
Following a dim light they came to
a smaller room. Before a blazmg log
file a child a child was playing with
a bow and arrow—the inevitable
Swiss toy.
“Get off that cost!" Warren shed
his own dripping ulster.
They were warming before the lire
when the surprised innkeeper ap
peared.
Get us something 4 hot to drink,"
was Warren's abrupt demand. "We
got caught up there in the storm.
Where’re the rest of the party?”
He explained, in halting English,
that the others had taken the train
back.
"The train back?” exploded War
ren. "Why, it doesn't leave until 6!”
On account of the storm it had left
earlier. In the excitement they had
not been missed from the party.
But they could spend the night here,
see the sunrise and go down on the
supply train in the morning.
"Of all the rotten luck! Parked
up here all night In this God forsaken
place!”
"But, dear, we can see the sun
rise. We may never be here again!”
"Heluva lot I care about th« sun
rise! I'd like to wring that guard’s
neck for going back without us.”
“What time will you want dinner,
sir?” Their host returned with two
steaming glasses.
“Soon as we can get it,” grumped
Warren.
But the hot Swiss punch had an
ameliorating effect on his temper.
“Not had," when he put down his
half-empty glass. “They know how to
make hot drinks up here; guess they
need ’em. That's got a kick like an
army mule.”
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"It s delicious.” Helen was sipping
hers in blissful anticipation of a
night in thin 1 emote mountain Inn.
“Move back a little; you'll burn your
shoes." sniffing burnt leather, as he
stretched too near the tire.
"Wonder what kind of a dinner
well get," draining his glass. "Now
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“Just listen, that wild storm out
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here. I'm glad the others went hack.
I love being hers alone-»-just with
you.” moving nearer his chair to
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“Too darn much of an adventure,”
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sentiment by jerking his hand from
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you can gun up some watches!”
(Copyright. 1921.)
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