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Stelvio Pass by Robert Barr. There is no question about it. Tina Lenz was a flirt, as she had a

perfect right to be, living as she did on the romantic shores of Como,

which was celebrated in song, story, and drama as the lover's Blue Lake.

Tina had many admirers, and it was just like her perversity to favor the one to whom her father

most objected. Pietro, as the father truly said, was a beggarly Italian driver, glad of the few francs he got from the travelers he took over the humble Maloga to the Enjadine, or over the elevated stelvio to the Troll, the lowest and highest passes in Europe.

It was a sad blow to the hopes, as well as the family pride of Old Lenz, when Tina defiantly announced her

preference for the driver of the Zweiss banner. Old Lens came of a long and distinguished line of

Swiss hotel keepers, noted for the success with which they squeezed the last attainable send-time

from the reluctant traveler. It was bad enough that he had no son to inherit his justly celebrated hotel,

pension rates for a stay of not less than eight days, but he hoped for a son-in-law, preferably of

Swiss extraction, to whom he might, in his old age, hand over the lucrative profession of

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