A Fortnight of Folly

Thompson, Maurice · 1885

A FORTNIGHT OF FOLLY. THE TALE OF A SCULPTOR, by HUGH CONWAY CARRISTON'S GIFT. The Hotel Helicon stood on a great rock promontory that jutted far out into a sea of air whose currents and eddies filled a wide, wild valley in the midst of our southern mountain region. It was a new hotel, built by a Cincinnati man who founded his fortune in natural gas speculations, and who had conceived the bright thought of making the house famous at the start by a stroke of rare liberality.…

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