There was a memorandum made here and there of the places he had visited, and the last entry was dated the day before at Engstlenalp.

Roland knew every step of the road, and for a while he seemed to himself to be this traveller, starting from the little inn, not yet vacated by its peasant landlord, but soon to be left to icy solitude, and taking the narrow path along the Engstlensee, toiling up the Joch pass under the mighty Wendenstoecke and the snowy Titlis, clear of clouds from base to summit yesterday.

The traveller must have had a guide with him, some peasant or herdsman probably, as far as the Truebsee Alp; for even in summer the route was difficult to find.

The guide had put him on to the path for Engelberg, and left him to make his way along the precipitous slopes of the Pfaffenwand.

All this would be discovered when an official inquiry was made into the accident.