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"At last!" he cried, as he stretched out his arms to clasp the Echo's fairy-like form that floated mistily before him ... but the Echo had faded from his sight as he approached her; and her last words were borne faintly towards him as she vanished into the golden glory of the sunshine "At last! At last! I am at rest at last!" The boy had learnt the secret of the Alpen-Echo.
There took shape before his eyes a Mexican hacienda, larger and more beautiful even than that of Echo's father, the beau-ideal of a home to his limited fancy. And on the piazza in front, covered with flowering vines, there stood awaiting him the slender figure of a woman, with outstretched arms and dark eyes, tender with yearning love. "Echo Echo Allen!" he murmured, fondly repeating the name.
"Well, then. Astonished why astonished?" He looked at her. "Let's call it," he said, "the principle of the thing." Oh, now astonishment between them. Her voice, astounded, had an echo's sound faint, faint, scarcely to be heard, gone. "The prin-ci-ple!" This room was lit, then, only by a standard lamp remote from where they were beside the fire.
They come, they come, The Spirits of the deep, While near thy seaweed pillow My lonely watch I keep. From far across the sea I hear a loud lament, By Echo's voice for thee From Ocean's caverns sent. O list! O list! The Spirits of the deep! They raise a wail of sorrow, While I forever weep. They are not what I intended them to be.
He would have full revenge for what his brother had suffered at Payson's hands. To Echo's plea of "Don't stop me!" he shouted: "No!" and caught the young wife, and pulled her back from the doorway. Echo struggled to free herself, but the young man was too strong. "He had ruined Dick's life, stolen from him the woman he loved," he hissed in her ear. "Jack! Jack!" was her only answer.
She meant to carry it slung across her shoulder on a stick as soon as she was well away from the prying eyes of Echo's inhabitants. Later, if she felt tired, she could easily hide it behind a bush along the road and send one of her father's cowboys after it. The road was very dusty and carried the wind-blown traces of automobile tires.
Parenthesis spied her riding down the trail. "She's comin' now," he cried. "Boys," requested Slim, "would you mind herdin' off yonder a bit?" The cow-punchers strolled over to the cottonwood, leaving Echo to meet Slim alone. "Where is he?" was Echo's tearful greeting. "Well, ma'am, there's a man out yonder that's been through fire and brimstone for you!" Echo stared over the prairies.
"Echo's birthday, you know, and the old lady allowed we'd have to be here. Ain't seen you since the weddin' got things lookin' fine here." Allen slowly surveyed the room. Jack agreed with him with a gesture of assent. A more important topic to him than the furnishing of a room was what had become of Dick Lane. After the wedding ceremony no chance had come to him to speak privately to Allen.
Allen restrained her, and Fresno caused Parenthesis to subside by yelling: "Get down offen that table, you idiot. There's the bride an' groom comin' in behind you. We CAN see 'em through yer legs, but we don't like that kin' of a frame." Jack had slipped his arm about Echo's waist. She was holding his hand, smiling at the exuberance of their guests.
"I flatter myself, Cuffe, that all hands will meet with opportunity enough," answered Sir Frederick, in his drawling way; "for I intend to put 'em all in together, like a thorough pack coming in at the death. I've seen Lord Echo's harriers so close, at the end of a long chase, that you might have covered the whole with this ship's main-course; and I intend it shall be so with our boats to-day.
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