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He was able to show us the exact spot which had been selected, and to tell us the hour at which the Ostermaier party was to cross the pass. "They'll lunch on the pass," he said, "and, of course, they suspect nothing. The young lady of whom I spoke to you will be one of their party. She, however, knows what is coming, and is, indeed, a party to it. The holdup will take place during luncheon."
Ostermaier full in the eye "I am going to have a cocktail. I need it." Late that evening Aggie came to Tish's room, where I was sitting with her. Tish was feeling entirely well, and more talkative than I can remember her in years. But the cocktail, which she felt, she said, in no other way, had gone to her legs. "It is not," she observed, "that I cannot walk. I can, perfectly well.
We immediately retreated to the cave and waited, it being Tish's intention to allow them to reach the pass without suspecting our presence, and only to cut off the pseudo-bandits in their retreat, as I have explained. It was well that we had concealed the horses also, for the party stopped near the cave, and Mrs. Ostermaier was weeping. "Not a step farther!" she said.
The last time I went to see her, she had bought a revolver from the janitor and was taking lessons in loading it. The Ostermaiers went also. Not with us, however. The congregation made up a purse for the purpose, and Tish and Aggie and I went further, and purchased a cigar-case for Mr. Ostermaier and a quantity of cigars. Smoking is the good man's only weakness.
Tish said nothing, but, reaching into her reticule, which she had taken from the horn of her saddle, she drew out a number of things. "Here," she said. "Are your earrings. Here also is Mr. Ostermaier's cigar-case, but empty. Here is some money too. I'll keep that, however, until I know how much you lost." "Tish!" screeched Mrs. Ostermaier. "You found them!"
Ostermaier, the minister's wife, who came to call and found us all sitting on the floor trying to get used to it, for of course there would be no chairs, "we shall prove that the trappings of civilization are a delusion and a snare. We shall bring back 'Mens sana in corpore sano'." The minister's wife thought this was a disease, for she said, "I hope not, I'm sure," very hastily.
Bill says there is a level spot at the top with rocks all about. That is the spot. The Ostermaiers and their party leave the automobiles at Many Glaciers and take horses to the pass. It will be worth coming clear to Montana to see Mrs. Ostermaier on a horse." "I still don't see," Aggie observed in a quavering voice, "what we have to do with it." "Naturally not," said Tish.
On the Sabbath we shall attend divine service under the Gothic arches of the trees, read sermons in stones, and instead of that whining tenor in the choir we shall listen to the birds singing praise, overhead." Mrs. Ostermaier looked rather bewildered. "I'm sure I hope so," she said vaguely. "I don't like camping myself. There are so many bugs."
Ostermaier," she said "And think, when you go home, of being able to say that you have climbed a mountain pass." "Pass!" sniffed Mrs. Ostermaier. "Pass nothing! I don't call a wall a mile high a pass." "Think," said the girl, "of being able to crow over those three old women who are always boasting of the things they do.
Her brain, however, was as active as ever, and by half-past eleven, mounting a boulder, she announced that she could see the Ostermaier party far down the trail, and that in an hour they would probably be at the top. She had her field-glasses, and she said that Mrs. Ostermaier was pointing up to the pass and shaking her head, and that the others were arguing with her.
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