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 spirit survives, and the faith and resignation of the dying man are expressed with a sublime simplicity."

It is the way of the Alps to deliver death to their victims with a merciful swiftness, but here the rule failed. These men suffered the bitterest death that has been recorded in the history of those mountains, freighted as that history is with grisly tragedies.