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Updated: June 6, 2025
Even Somers, in honour of whose academic laurel the whole holiday had been given, and who that evening returned from Cambridge, was less of a hero than either of the three who had thus climbed the peak of Appenfell and braved so serious an adventure; far less crowned with schoolboy admiration than the young boy who had thrice crossed and recrossed the Devil's Way, and who had crossed it first unaided and with full knowledge of its horrors, while the light of winter evening was dying away, and the hills around him reeked like a witch's caldron with wintry mists.
He received them with a stately yet sincere kindness; questioned them on the occurrences of the day; warned them for the future against excursions so liable to accident as the winter ascent of Appenfell; and then spoke a few friendly words to each of them. For both Kenrick and Power he had a strong personal regard, and for the latter especially a feeling closely akin to friendship and affection.
"Why, first of all, I wasn't going to hear animals like Mackworth abuse you; and next, but for you I should have continued my old selfish way of keeping aloof from all school concerns. It cost me an effort to conquer my shyness, but I remembered our old talk on Appenfell, Walter." Walter smiled gratefully, and Power continued, "But I've come to tell you both a bit of news."
"Never mind, all the more fun and glory, and we shall have the whole day before us. I've been longing to beat that proud old Appenfell for a long time. I'm certain we can do it." "But do you mean that we two should go alone?" "O, no; we'll ask Flip, to amuse us on the way." "And may I ask Power?"
"O! Somers has got no end of a scholarship at Cambridge an awfully swell thing and Dr Lane gave a holiday directly he got the telegram announcing the news." "Well done, old Somers!" said Kenrick. "What shall we do?" "O! I've had a scheme for a long time in my head, Ken; I want you to come with me to the top of Appenfell." "Whew-w-w! but it's a tremendous long walk, and no one goes up in winter."
They got across in much less time than Walter had occupied in his first passage, and as they reached Appenfell they saw the two boys standing dimly on the verge of the moonlit mist, while all below them the rest of Appenfell was still wrapt, as in some great cerecloth, by the snowy folds of seething cloud.
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