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"No one knows anything unfavourable about Count Horetzki," said Lewis, in a gentle tone, "save his fellow-sinner, who now assures him of his sincere regard. As for Antoine Grennon, he is a wise, and can be a silent, man. No brother could be more tender of the feelings of others than he. Come, you will consent to be my guest to-night. You are unwell; I shall be your amateur physician.
Such pleasures were enjoyed one morning by Emma Gray and Nita Horetzki and Lewis Stoutley, when, at an early hour, they issued from their hotel, and walked away briskly up the Vale of Chamouni. "I say, Emma, isn't it a charming, delicious, and outrageously delightful day!" exclaimed Lewis.
"Because," said the Professor, "your amiable sister I beg pardon, cousin with that irresistible power of suasion which seems inherent in her nature, has prevailed on Mademoiselle Horetzki to join the party, and Mademoiselle is too delicate sylph-like to endure the fatigues of so long an excursion over the ice.
At the time Lewis Stoutley visited the town, however, it was not so singular in its infamy as it now is. He was ignorant of everything about the place save its name. Going straight to the first hotel that presented itself, he inquired for the Count Horetzki. The Count he was told, did not reside there; perhaps he was at the Casino. To the Casino Lewis went at once.
As soon as Lewis could turn his mind to anything, after his being brought back to the hotel, he asked earnestly after Nita Horetzki. "She has left," said Mrs Stoutley. "Left! D'you mean gone from Chamouni, mother?" exclaimed Lewis, with a start and a look of anxiety which he did not care to conceal. "Yes, they went yesterday.
Then his mind, with that curious capacity for sudden flight, which is one of the chief characteristics of thought, leaped down the precipices, up which he had toiled so slowly, sped away over hill and dale, and landed him in Chamouni at the feet of Nita Horetzki. Once there, he had no desire to move.
The only time I ventured to do so she appeared unhappy, and quickly changed the subject." The cousins were sauntering near their hotel and observed Dr Lawrence hurry from the front door. "Hallo! Lawrence," called out Lewis. "Ah! the very man I want," exclaimed the Doctor, hastening to join them, "do you know that Miss Horetzki is ill?"
"Monsieur le Capitaine is lost in consternation," said Nita, with a smile. "I think, Miss Horetzki," said Lewis, "that you probably mean admiration." "How you knows w'at I mean?" demanded Nita, quickly. "Ha! a very proper and pertinent question," observed Slingsby, in an audible though under tone.
Mrs Stoutley, reposing at full length on a sofa in the salon one evening, observed to the Count Horetzki that she really could not understand it at all; that it seemed to her a tempting of Providence to risk one's life for nothing, and that upon the whole she thought these excursions on glaciers were very useless and foolish.
Under this conviction he secretly hugged himself, but in the salon, that evening, he opened his arms and released himself on beholding the apparently fickle Lawrence deeply engaged in converse with the Count Horetzki, to whose pretty daughter, however, he addressed the most of his remarks.
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