66 ELIZABETH COULD YET FIND TIME TO WALK AND CLIMB, PLUNGING SPIRIT AND SENSE IN THE BEAUTY OF THE ROCKIES B HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE ESTATE OF ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY MRS. HUMPHRY WARD COPYRIGHT, 1909, 1910, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY A FOREWORD TOWARDS the end of this story the readers of it will find an account of an "unknown lake" in the northern Rockies, together with a picture of its broad expanse, its glorious mountains, and of a white explorers' tent pitched beside it. Strictly speaking, "Lake Elizabeth" is a lake of dream. But it has an original on this real earth, which bears another and a real name, and was discovered two years ago by my friend Mrs. Schäffer, of Philadelphia, to whose enchanting narratives of travel and exploration in these untrodden regions I listened with delight at Field, British Columbia, in June, 1908. She has given me leave to use her own photograph of the "unknown lake," and some details from her record of it, for my own purposes; and I can only hope that in the summers to come she unlock yet may other secrets, unravel yet other mysteries, in that noble unvisited country which lies north and northeast of the Bow Valley and the Kicking Horse Pass. MARY A. WARD. |