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Updated: June 26, 2025
Now that I know you live, I would search the wide world for you. Blessed Mother! How you must have feared me all these years!" Stampa was using the Romansch dialect of the Italian Alps. Bower spoke in German. Spencer heard them indistinctly. He marveled that they should discuss, as he imagined, the state of the weather with such subdued passion.
He was at peace with all the world. He had forgiven his enemy. Bower rose again stiffly. He would have spoken; but Stampa now fell on his knees and began to pray silently. So the millionaire, humbled again and terror stricken by the sinister significance of those concluding words, yet not daring to question them, crept out of the place of the dead.
"Oh, nonsense!" he cried contemptuously. "We shall be two hours on the glacier, so five more minutes won't cut any ice. If you have food and drink in there, Stampa certainly wants both. We all need them. We have to meet that gale all the way. The two hours may become three before we reach the path." Helen guessed the reason of his disdain.
The snow was absolutely blinding. The wind was full in their faces, and it carried the huge flakes upward. They seemed to spring from beneath rather than drop from the clouds. Ever and anon a weirdly blue gleam of lightning would give a demoniac touch to a scene worthy of the Inferno. "Make for the ice quick!" cried Stampa, and Barth turned sharply to the left.
She thought of me, I am sure, for she had my letter in her pocket telling her that I was at Pontresina with my voyageurs. And she would think of you too, her lover, her promised husband." Bower cleared his throat. He tried to frame a denial; but Stampa waved the unspoken thought aside. "Surely you told her you would marry her, Herr Baron?" he said gently.
Here was a nice point submitted to his judgment, whether to follow the line of the recently formed schrund yawning at his feet, or endeavor to cross it, or go back to the scene of the landslip? That was where Barth was lacking. In that instant he resigned his pride of place without further effort to retain it. He was in the van, but did not lead. Thenceforth Stampa was master.
Bower, who had substituted reasoned thought for his madness, addressed Spencer with easy complacence while Barth was unroping them. "Why did you believe that I was doing a risky thing in stopping to assist Stampa?" he asked. "I guess you know best," was the uncompromising answer. "Yes, I think I do.
His whole attitude might be explained by the fact that he was Stampa's employer, and had won the old guide's confidence. Yes, the American was the real danger. That pale ghost conjured from the grave by Stampa was intangible, powerless, a dreamlike wraith evoked by a madman's fancy. Already the fear engendered myopia of the morning was passing from Bower's eyes.
He talks German like a parrot. He must be a rich American. Perhaps he wants to buy a diligence." "Wer weiss?" said the other. "Money makes some folk mad." And, indeed, through Spencer's brain was running a Bedlamite jingle, a triolet of which the dominant line was Bower, Stampa, and Millicent Jaques. The meeting of Bower and Stampa was easy of explanation.
Summoning all her energies, and trying to remember some of the German sentences learned in her school days, she smiled wistfully. "You are in great trouble," she murmured. "I suppose Herr Bower has injured you?" Stampa glanced at her keenly.
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