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The automatic spoke again, this time farther to the north, drawing more shots from the angry pursuers; but I knew that among trees so thick and in darkness so impenetrable Smilax and Echochee ran little chance of being hit. At the prairie, made vaguely lighter by a hazy, half grown moon, we crouched in the grass and waited.
But a better humor came to me as I thought of Tommy's scheme about the Orchid, and coming upon Echochee at the landing I asked lightly for her benefit, yet quite seriously for myself: "Is there any magic in your tribe that can bring a troubled princess sleep and pleasant dreams?"
Without question, he and Echochee were still in flight, heading toward some safe refuge; coaxing, by shot or cry, the furious pack that tore hopefully after them. I knew that my vigil here was unnecessary that with all senses focused on the chase no straggler would by any chance be coming this far out into the prairie but I had told Sylvia it would be kept.
"Perhaps it might have been if I knew Echochee and your man are safe. Anyway, I'm glad the fire's ready; I've been expecting you to call me." "I wish I could give you the same assurance about them that I feel myself. Try to think I'm right, won't you?" "Yes, really I will, good Chancellor," she smiled.
Echochee, supremely content to have found Doloria, remained at her side. Four of the attacking party had escaped and might well have returned to their houses. We favored the theory, too, that Efaw Kotee had remained there, expecting his band to capture us; so, if the fugitives were with him, they could by now have prepared a formidable resistance.
Of course, each twenty-four hours would make her and Echochee weaker from starvation and, as they would need strength, we dared not wait too long. Immediate help from the Whim was all but a forlorn hope. The rescue had come suddenly up to us, and it must be met without a thought of failure.
Even could you, she knows she can not resist my authority. Yes, go and say what you like." He was laughing by this time, at his success rather than my discomfiture, but Tommy saw that I was making little distinction between the two and wisely led him away. As I stepped upon the little island Echochee came down to meet me. "How's your Lady?" I asked.
For ten years Echochee fed and clothed him, hunting alligators and watching her chance of slipping the skins to a market.
Smilax, undoubtedly master of the situation, would lead them on and on; either close by Big Cove so those aboard the Whim had she made harbor could take a hand, or finally lose them somewhere in the treacherous Everglades. Then he would came back for us. I felt no great uncertainty for Smilax and Echochee.
"Come across with what Echochee said," I told him. He grinned and nodded. "Echochee know me. Me no call like owl, for 'fraid all's-well-men no be fooled; so crawl close and scratch on wall. She come to place inside, then me put mouth to crack and say in Seminole: 'Echochee, me Tachachobee. She squat down by crack and whisper back: 'You lie.
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