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Updated: May 12, 2025
The murmur of the stream and the tinkle of the cow-bells and the jodelling of the herdsmen far up the slopes, make the music for the scene. The path from Gschloss leads straight up to the foot of the dark pyramid of the Kesselkopf, and then in steep endless zig-zags along the edge of the great glacier.
Down upon them came the splendid Magdalen, brown, warm, voluminous, scarcely brushing the grass with her sandalled feet. Her hair flew; pins seemed scarcely to attach the flying silks. An actress of course, a line of light perpetually beneath her. It was only "My dear" that she said, but her voice went jodelling between Alpine passes.
She went to put on her cloak and, hat, and found him waiting for her at the top of the staircase. They passed out into the beautiful night: the sky was radiantly bejewelled, the air crisp and cold, and harmless to do ill. In the distance, the jodelling of some peasants. In the hotels, the fun and merriment, side by side with the suffering and hopelessness.
He swallowed his coffee, and set off. He knew the way at first, then in woods lost it, recovered the right track again at last, but did not reach the hut till nearly two o'clock. Yes, the party had made the ascent that morning they had been seen, been heard jodelling on the top. Gewiss! Gewiss! But they would not come down the same way. Oh, no!
The whistle stopped abruptly, and the voice of a boy, passing along the crowded platform, claimed all Sound for its own. "Chor-or-or-clicks!" he cried in a not unmusical jodelling treble, "Chorclicks! Cigarettes!" The platform was thronged by bluejackets and marines, for on this particular evening the period of leave, granted by some battleship in the North, had expired.
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