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Updated: July 20, 2025
He shaded his eyes with his hand and looked far out to sea. "What a wonderful place for a watch tower it would have made!" "It had one once," softly replied the girl, "Wildenai's watch tower!" Blair turned, their eyes met, and he smiled. "It's been splendid to have you with me all these days," he said, "I've been wanting to tell you. You've been more of a help than you'll ever know."
And see," she laughed tremulously, "Isn't it strange I should have found it today, but," she lifted the white thing in her lap, "here is Wildenai's wedding dress and the chain of garnets!" The cavern was quite dark before they had finished talking about it, but at length they laid the poor little ghost of a garment reverently back among the stones and rose to go. "But the necklace?"
Desolately she wandered up the secret trail to Wildenai's bower. Never had her sympathy for the deserted princess been so keen. Perhaps, she mournfully considered, if the spirit of the Indian maiden still lingered there it might feel sympathy for her as well. Perhaps she, too, would find comfort in the spot where that other woman had paid an equal price for her impulsiveness.
"Perhaps I should have told you at the first," he began, "or at least after you told me who you were, but anyway, I didn't. I'd never told anyone before and I didn't much suppose I ever would. There's a reason, though, why I'm particularly interested in this legend, too, a reason just as good as you've got. I'm well, I'm one of Wildenai's great, great grandsons!"
Trembling with a curiosity that bordered close on terror, she carried it to the light, and there it glowed, a glancing stream of crimson, in her hand. "Wildenai's necklace!" she breathed, and hid her face. There came the sound of a step outside. The manzanita branches were pushed impatiently aside and he stood before her.
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