Life — August 8, 1901 — page 14: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

*LIPE MADE OF THY MissED. He Was Tempted, and He Fell. HAVE just received a circular from the Rock Peak Hotel,’ said Von Blumer, ‘‘and it seems mighty attractive. It’s up in the Catskills, and it might be a good place for us to spend our vacation. You know we haven't been to the mountains for some time.”’ “Didn't you get a booklet from the Ocean Front?"* asked Mrs, Von Blumer. ‘* You know we liked it down there so much last year, and I think, after all, I prefer the seashore. There's nothing much better than the Jersey coast, and the Ocean Front is such a nice hotel. We know all about it, and we don’t know a thing about this other place you mention.” “Of course the Ocean Front is nice,"’ said Von Blumer. “Why shouldn't it be nice at the prices they charge? Why, it cost us fifteen dollars a day all the time we were there last year. It's too much! I can’t afford it. Now, the Rock Peak oF “The Rock Pe of course, or you ¥ me, I don't bel stay at home Phat ix exactly the way T feel about it,” said Von Blumer. * But listen’’—and he read from the cireular— « *The Rock Peak is situated eighteen hundred feet above the sea level, and commands a superb view for thirty miles up and down the Hudson Valley. and ai said Mrs. Von Blumer, ‘is cheaper, ldn’t have mentioned it. But as for in trying any experiments. I'd rather The rooms are large with all modern improvements, and the cuisine is acknowledged to be unsurpassed. Prices from twelve dollars to twenty dollars per week.’ What do you think of that? “You can't tell anything from the circular,’ said Mrs. Von Blumer. “ Of course not,”’ said Von Blumer, ‘ but now I'm com- ing to my point. We've been in a rut too long, and at the same time I don’t want to subject you to any discomfort, as I know how you hate cheap hotels. What I propose todo is to ran up to the Rock Peak—it's only three hours away—for a day or so, and find out just what sort of a place it is. If it’s all right, as I firmly believe, I'll come back and get you ! What do you say? Mrs. Von Blumer pondered for some time before she replied. She knew her husband pretty well, end there was always in her mind an undercurrent of suspicion whenever he proposed any- thing unusual. At the same time, his proposition was so considerate of her, that she could raise no real objection to it. “You'llcome right back?" she said at last. “Certainly,’”’ replied Von Blumer. ‘I’m simply going up there on your account. I want to make sure it’s the right place for you. I can run up to-morrow afternoon.” “ Well—all right,” said Mrs. Von Blumer, somewhat doubtfully. . . . T was two weeks later. Von Blumer, on his way from his office where he had stopped for a few moments on his arrival in the city from the Rock Peak Hotel, was sitting in an electric car, homeward bound. The enormity of his offense had not fully occurred to him before—so busy had he been— but now that he wasso near home, it burst upon him with full force. He had promised ey tocome right back, and he had been gone two weeks! Well, the Rock Peak was perhaps not THY, AMERICAN PAMILY'S THREE CYCLES, comicbooks.com