Christian herald and signs of our times . to a crevasseand vanished utterly from view. The young girl, bride and widow at eighteen,sought to throw herself into the clear, blue gulf ;she refused to leave Heiligenblut; she wrould sittearless by the edge of the crevasse day by dayand gaze into its profundity. A guide or manwas always with her at these times, for it wasstill feared that she would follow her young hus-band to the depths of that still sea. Her auntwent over from England to her ; the summerwaxed, autumn storms set in, but no power couldwin her from the place whence Charles had gone.


Christian herald and signs of our times . to a crevasseand vanished utterly from view. The young girl, bride and widow at eighteen,sought to throw herself into the clear, blue gulf ;she refused to leave Heiligenblut; she wrould sittearless by the edge of the crevasse day by dayand gaze into its profundity. A guide or manwas always with her at these times, for it wasstill feared that she would follow her young hus-band to the depths of that still sea. Her auntwent over from England to her ; the summerwaxed, autumn storms set in, but no power couldwin her from the place whence Charles had gone. If there was a time worse lor her than thatfirst moment, it was when they told her that hisbody never could be found. They did not dareto tell her this for many days, but busied them- * From The Sentimental Calendar, by J. S. of Dale. Con-taining twelve bright stories, one for each month of the 280. Price, $2. Published by Charles Scri&mrs Sons, 745Broadway, New York. 812 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. Dec. An Irish Landowner and her Daughter under Protection from Assassi AS. (See page selves with idle cranes and ladders, and madefutile pretences with ropes. Some of the big,simple-hearted guides even descended into thechasm, absenting themselves for an hour or so,to give an idea that something was being done. Mrs. Knollys went back to the. little cottagein Surrey and lived there. She rarely went was no place where she could go to tothink of him. If he had only been buried insome quiet English churchyard, she thought,they would then be separated for her short lifealone. Now it seemed to her that they werefar apart forever. But late the next summer she had a letterfrom the place. It was from Dr. told her that he had given a years study tothe place ; with all his instruments of measure-ment he had tested the movement of the glacier,and believed that her husbands body might yetbe found, though not for many years. Thisletter made M


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