CHAPTER X
Ah Cum was himself puzzled. As far as I recollect, there were
two. It belonged to his
father, and was worn by him on the night he was murdered. At the expiration of an hour, by dint of
unremitting exertion, he had made so large a breach in the chimney, that he
could stand upright in it. "Since the sea has spared
him, I will spare him. ’
‘What young lady?’ demanded a voice from the back of the hall. He turned round
toward her and found her looking at him and standing very still. “One day,” he resumed, “we will start off early and come down into
Kandersteg and up these zigzags and here and here, and so past this Daubensee
to a tiny inn—it won’t be busy yet, though; we may get it all to ourselves—on
the brim of the steepest zigzag you can imagine, thousands of feet of zigzag; and
you will sit and eat lunch with me and look out across the Rhone Valley and over
blue distances beyond blue distances to the Matterhorn and Monte Rosa and a
long regiment of sunny, snowy mountains. And what took you to Remenham House?’
‘I shall come to that presently,’ said Gerald cautiously. . On their return, the jailers raised up Jonathan, who was weltering in his blood,
and who appeared to be dying. You are one of the Immortals. It was an awful
moment—so awful, that every other feeling except deep interest in the scene
seemed suspended.
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