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"Mrs. Davis staid up on the mountain to keep me 

 company, while the Doctor and Beverly hurried down 

 to camp for the ropes and other men to help get me out. 



"Finally, about ten o'clock in the evening, they re- 

 turned, bringing ropes, lanterns, axes and candles. They 

 first tried to send Beverly down, to put the rope around 

 me. He made trouble by getting jammed in the ice, and 

 finally brought an avalanche of snow upon my head 

 that buried me almost out of sight. And he had no 

 light.. 



"So they pulled him back up, and then Will Siler 

 came down on the rope, carrying a candle and an axe. 

 I was so frozen in and snowed in by that time that he 

 had to cut me out. 



"At last he got me loose and put the end of a rope 

 around me and tied it fast. My hands were without 

 feeling, and numb. They then pulled me up onto the 

 glacier. 



"I was pretty far gone, and could hardly walk. But 

 they made me do the best I could and finally got me 

 down to camp. Then the doctor knew just what to do 

 and he brought me out all right. 



"For several weeks my hands felt queer and were 

 without feeling in them, but gradually they came back 

 to life. 



"The only bruises I received were on my arms, when 

 they pulled me up through the crevasse. My left arm 

 was barked considerably. But I went down without a 

 scratch." 



And so Marjorie's adventure ended. It was one that 

 few mountain climbers would care to experience, and 

 which she herself would certainly never want again. 

 The marvel of it was that she escaped so well. 



I asked her if she had any further desire for the 

 mountains. 



"I want to go to the Cascades next summer," she 

 replied. 



