Three Vassar girls in Switzerland . ch carried theJudge and Nikolas down the couloir, split in two against a pinnacleof rock, and that one half swept downward to the glacier, whilethe other carried the unfortunate mountaineers down a branchcouloir into a crevasse at some distance from the point at whichthey began their ascent. Before Mr. Walker and Yakob had finishedcrossing the glacier, they saw plainly enough that a recent avalanchehad descended the very couloir to which the track they were followingled. Fresh snow obliterated the footprints, and the Judges alpen-stock, which had been whirle
Three Vassar girls in Switzerland . ch carried theJudge and Nikolas down the couloir, split in two against a pinnacleof rock, and that one half swept downward to the glacier, whilethe other carried the unfortunate mountaineers down a branchcouloir into a crevasse at some distance from the point at whichthey began their ascent. Before Mr. Walker and Yakob had finishedcrossing the glacier, they saw plainly enough that a recent avalanchehad descended the very couloir to which the track they were followingled. Fresh snow obliterated the footprints, and the Judges alpen-stock, which had been whirled from his hand by striking against thepinnacle, and had followed the course of this part of the snow-slide,lay at a little distance. The conclusion was most natural that theJudge himself and his little guide were buried under that mass of LOST. 169 snow. Yakob began to dig wildly near the spot where he had foundthe alpenstock. Walker strode up and down, carefully examining thesnow for other indications, and hallooing at Marga-ret saw thepause atthe foot of the couloir, and the wavering mo-tion of the lantern as Mr. Walkercarried it from one side of theavalanche to the other, and imme-diately surmised that they hadcome upon some casualty. Atthe same time, Annette utteredan exclamation, and pointed to aline of men connected by a rope like so many beads on a rosary,crossing the glacier lower down. It is the rescuing party fromZermatt, she said; but they do not see father and Mr. Walker, RESCUING PARTY ON THE MATTERHORN. 170 THREE VASSAR GIRLS IN SWITZERLAND, and are going to begin the ascent of the mountain at another point, and will be of no help. If we could only at-tract their attention by-signals of some sort,Margaret suggested,and make them un-derstand that they areneeded in the other di-rection. They lighted torchesof pine fagots, andwaved them frantically;but with no effect. Thehuman rosary woundaround the base of themountain, and was lostto view. Mother Loch-w
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