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And I have been down into hell, to-night and seen Archibald Enwright, of Interlaken, conniving with the devil. I presume I should go to bed; but I know I can not sleep. To-morrow is to be, beyond all question, a red-letter day in the matter of the captain's murder. And once again, against my will, I am down to play a leading part.
I took three hours in the unwearied train descending from the Eismeer to Interlaken, and was back in my hotel in comfortable time for dinner, "mightily content with the day's journey," as Mr. Pepys would have said. I have always been sensitive to the action of diminished pressure, which produces what is called "mountain sickness" in many people.
You know, some amateurs have a vile habit of getting the names of various peaks branded on their alpenstocks just as if any real climber ever used an alpenstock." "Why, what do they use?" asked Bessie, much interested. "Ice-axes, of course. Now, there is a useful individual in Interlaken, who is what you might call a wholesale brander.
I love a smith's shop and anything relating to smithery. My father was a smith. From Interlaken he went to the Falls of the Giessbach, on the pleasant lake of Brientz. And here we have him watching the shoot of the cataract down its series of precipices. It is shattered into foam at the base of each, and tossed by its own recoil as water-dust through the air.
"What made him start on a long walk so suddenly?" she asked. "I saw him at eleven o'clock, and then he meant to go to Engelberg, and sleep." "On his way to Interlaken?" Rowland said. "Yes," she answered, under cover of the darkness. "We had some talk," said Rowland, "and he seemed, for the day, to have given up Interlaken." "Did you dissuade him?" "Not exactly.
The master of the house was away on a journey, far away in the town of Interlaken inter lacus, "between the lakes" as the school-master, Annette's father, had explained, in his wisdom. Far away was the miller and Babette with him; there was to be a shooting festival, which was to commence on the following day and to continue for a whole week.
We drove sullenly through Brienz, dead to the seductions of its bewildering array of Swiss carvings and the clamorous HOO-hooing of its cuckoo clocks, and had not entirely recovered our spirits when we rattled across a bridge over the rushing blue river and entered the pretty town of Interlaken. It was just about sunset, and we had made the trip from Lucerne in ten hours.
"I think I may find some material here which will help me with my novel. You and the Heptons must go, just as you have planned, and I will join you at Lucerne or Interlaken." Hephzy stared at me. "I sha'n't stir one step without you," she declared. "If I'd known you had such an idea as that in your head I " "You wouldn't have come," I interrupted. "I know that; that's why I didn't tell you.
"Yes," said Lady Garnett sympathetically; "I suppose Pilatus is rather monotonous. It's rather too near, I think. It ought to be far away, and covered with snow, more like the Jungfrau, which we have been worshipping at Interlaken, where, by the way, there are positively more Americans than natives." "Oh," Mrs. Sylvester chimed in, "isn't it dreadful the way they overrun Europe nowadays!
However, there were plenty of these, loaded with dusty tourists and piled high with luggage. Indeed, from Lucerne to Interlaken we had the spectacle, among other scenery, of an unbroken procession of fruit-peddlers and tourists carriages. Our talk was mostly anticipatory of what we should see on the down-grade of the Bruenig, by and by, after we should pass the summit.
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