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Updated: May 20, 2025
When Herr Zetter of Solothurn first saw it in the queer little Allerheiligen chapel, it hung high up on the choir wall; blackened, worm-eaten, without a frame, suspended by a string passed through two holes which had been bored through the painted panel itself. Yet his acute eye was greatly interested by it.
All the circumstances were perfect and the anticipations, too, for we should soon be enjoying, for the first time, that wonderful spectacle, an Alpine sunrise the object of our journey. I say "apparently," because the guide-book had already fooled us once about the distance from Allerheiligen to Oppenau and for aught I knew it might be getting ready to fool us again.
For at this time he built, and soon after endowed, the little village church of Allerheiligen, on the outskirts of the industrial town of Grenchen, which lies at the southern foot of the Jura. Facilis descensus! Another turn of the centuries' wheel and the gift of this chapel's founder was once again thought unworthy of the altar to which it had been presented.
The gorge under our feet called Allerheiligen afforded room in the grassy level at its head for a cozy and delightful human nest, shut away from the world and its botherations, and consequently the monks of the old times had not failed to spy it out; and here were the brown and comely ruins of their church and convent to prove that priests had as fine an instinct seven hundred years ago in ferreting out the choicest nooks and corners in a land as priests have today.
All the circumstances were perfect and the anticipations, too, for we should soon be enjoying, for the first time, that wonderful spectacle, an Alpine sunrise the object of our journey. I say "apparently," because the guide-book had already fooled us once about the distance from Allerheiligen to Oppenau and for aught I knew it might be getting ready to fool us again.
She took Miss Jones to the robing-room, and soon brought her back in regulation trim, and then we entered the ballroom with this benefactress unchallenged. Being safe, now, I began to puzzle through my sincere but ungrammatical thanks, when there was a sudden mutual recognition the benefactress and I had met at Allerheiligen.
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