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lunch, camera, and sweater, strolled off 
and began to pick strawberries or some¬ 
thing on the way up. 
Mr. Mather, himself the soul of courtesy 
and discretion, made a great bluff about be¬ 
ing unable himself to go very fast, and so 
remained back with me, the selected victim 
of the terrors of the mountains. It was 
very difficult for him to walk so slow, but 
we managed it. I was resolved to sell my 
life as dearly as possible—it having already 
proved to be worth ten dollars to the guide. 
Somewhere about half way up or more 
we met a party coming down—mostly made 
up of women and children, who to my sur¬ 
prise seemed not much the worse for wear. 
They were waiting for others of their party, 
who presently came down the trail—two 
smiling young damsels who probably would 
have been down earlier save for the great 
personal pulchritude of some of our other 
gentlemen whom they had met at the sum¬ 
mit. Seeing Mr. Mather and the rest of 
our detachment, they paused to pass the 
time of day. There seemed to be no hurry 
about going up the mountain at the time, 
and plenty of opportunity to photograph 
Mr. Mather in the act of assisting Secre¬ 
tary Lane, by such fashion of conversation 
as befitted this occasion. 
These two young ladies seemed as fresh 
as paint. I asked them if they really had 
climbed Mount Whitney, and with much 
surprise they replied, “Sure, why not?” 
They were camping five or six miles down 
the valley, and for all I know had con¬ 
tracted the habit of climbing the mountain 
every day before breakfast. 
But after a while we strolled on up fol¬ 
lowing the trail, which is more or less 
plain. By and by I came to a place with 
a lot of rocks lying around where most of 
our fellows were sitting down and smok¬ 
ing or eating or making pictures. They 
rose up in greeting. 
“Congratulations, old man!” said several 
of them. “Glad you’ve made it.” 
“Made what; and why congratulations?” 
“Why, for climbing the mountain.” 
“What mountain?” I asked them. 
“Where is any mountain? Do you mean 
to tell me that there has been any moun¬ 
tain anywhere around?” 
“This is it,” they said. “You’re on top— 
you can’t get any higher.” 
“You’re fooling!” said I to them. “This 
isn’t any mountain. We must have got off 
the trail somewhere and missed Mount 
Whitney. Fine guide I’ve got, to let us 
miss the whole mountain.” 
“But you haven’t missed it,” said they. 
“Look at the figures on the rock. Look at 
the government cairn. Look at the refuge 
house there—go in and sign the register.” 
Well, sure enough, it was the top of 
Mount Whitney. If they had only left Mc¬ 
Cormick and me alone with those mules 
we would have been up there long ago. 
(to be continued next month) 
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