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Yet I believed that she had been on the point of yielding, and was about to urge still further when Monsieur's voice, speaking to Echochee, brought me to my feet. "Well, my boy Jack," he exclaimed, entering with a cheeriness I found detestable, "we shall leave her now, eh? She has packing to do, and must get early to rest."
This was so different, so tame, to the brilliant, suicidal dashes into the thick of rescue and glory and doubtless destruction as my plans ran, that I almost felt ashamed. Smilax could neither read nor write; his vocabulary might have been held in the hollow of one's hand, but in many respects he was the sanest creature I ever met. "Do you suppose Echochee will trust us to get them away?"
What your father name? Me say: 'Black boy got no father; Echochee friend, Wanona, squaw of Kittimee, raise him. Then she ask back quick: 'How many pickaninny Kittimee and Wanona had? Me say: 'Boy child. She whisper quicker: 'What wigwam stood in morning shadow to Kittimee? Me say: 'Echochee wigwam. She say: 'Who next? Me say: 'Pattawa, him shoot long gun. She wait 'while, and say: 'If you Tachachobee, what scar you got on left leg? Me say: 'No scar on left leg, scar on right leg; four teeth of Pawpawloochee spotted dog what wildcat kill. She know then me tell no lie, and unlock door and come out, and take my hand.
From there our progress was easier, and shortly we got to our hands and knees. After following in this manner for two hundred yards Smilax stopped and sat down. "You do good," he said. "Wait; me go back." "What for?" I asked, in surprise. "Tell me what Echochee said?" "After 'while," he answered. "Me go fix pine needles where we crawl out; then take look at all's-well-men. You wait."
"We have a very mutual respect for each other in loathing that gentleman," I announced. "But tell me quickly were you safe after that?" "Oh, yes, for I began to temporize. Echochee wanted to kill them, of course that being her only solution. But I hoped we might manage to escape if they could be put off a few days." "And you were in the small boat when they tied on the bomb?" "Heavens, yes.
Let it go that a few were scratched, and the rest got away. You get the idea? I don't want her shocked." My men understood at once, but Echochee, never taking her eyes from the sizzling skillets, asked: "What you mean 'shocked'?" "I mean horrified, terrified sorry," I answered, rather put to it how else to explain. "Ugh! She already sorry; cry some, say ve'y bad. Me say ve'y good.
I watched last night and there wasn't the slightest sign of anyone. You see, Smilax that's Tachachobee, but we call him Smilax because he smiles well, he and Echochee purposely led those fellows up the coast, and they'll keep on leading them any-old-where until it's safe to join us here. It's been carefully planned out.
After that you saw the rest and realized how much trouble she was in. How about it?" "Good," he grunted. "That good. To-night me tell Echochee get ready, and to-morrow night we run 'way maybe to Reservation. But we come by camp and find you; then all work 'round to yacht. Good." "Well," I demurred, "that isn't the way I meant, for I intend to stay here and help.
"Yes," I admitted, "but I can't shoot unless you're safe." "Then don't think of me, at all, for I promise to do whatever you say. Look," she pointed suddenly. "There they are! I believe every one of them! Oh, I wonder if they've killed Echochee!"
In her reply, surreptitiously delivered by Echochee, who was smiling, she wrote among still more important things "for Heaven's sake, break it into tiny little pieces!" With this in mind, although having no idea how I should succeed, I came up by way of the fo'castle and walked aft to where Tommy and he were smoking.
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