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Those who still were on the mountain and had only learned through the smoke that the signal for returning had been given, gradually also found their way into the valley. The last to appear in the evening was the son of the shepherd Philip who had carried the red flag to the Krebsstein and planted it there. In Gschaid there was also grandmother waiting for them who had driven across the "neck."
Let one of you run down at once to the Sideralp chalet and ring the bell, that they down below may hear that we have found them; and one must climb the Krebsstein and plant the flag there so that they in the valley may see it and fire off the mortars, so that the people searching in the Millsdorf forest may hear it and that they may kindle the smudge-fires in Gschaid, and all those on the mountain may come down to the Sideralp chalet.
They just had to ascend. After making this observation I sent a message to Gschaid, but the wood-cutter Michael who carried it told us at his return, when he joined us up there near the ice, that you had found them already, and so we came down again." "Yes," said Michael, "I told you so because the red flag is hung out on the Krebsstein, and this was the sign agreed upon in Gschaid.
This is a Christmas for you!" "I shall climb down to the chalet," one said. "And I shall carry the flag to the Krebsstein," said another. "And we will get the children down to the Sideralp chalet as well as we can, if God help us;" said Philip. One of Philip's sons made his way downward, and the other went his way with the flag.
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