The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-21

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of a second cultivated plot. Palms and
towering cacti added color and life to
t, near prospect. Through the arbor
a glimpse of the Torti1 mountains
for.y miles away, he'll the eye. The
S~weetwater, it's path the plains
outlined by the trees fringing It's banks.
flowed past the ranch. Yucca palms
and sahuaroes threw a scanty shade
over the garden.
Shortly after the arrival of the ALI
lens in Arizona they were blessed with
a daughter, the first white child born
II that region. They waited for a
Protestant clergyman to come along
before christening her. and, as such
visits were few and far between, the
child was beginning o talk before she
| received a name. From a cunning
habit she hae of repeating the last
words of questions put to her her
father Professionally dubbed her Echo
| which name, when the preacher came,
he Il sisted upon her retaining.
As Echo grew older, in order that
she might have a companion, Colonel
AL en- went to kentucky and brought
! back with him a little orphan girl
who was a distant relative of his
wife. Polly Hope her name was, and
Polly Hope she insisted on remaining,
although the Aliens would gladly ave
ADOPTED her.
Colonel Allen trained the girls In all the
craft of the plains, just as IL they were
DO. s. He taught them to ride astride,
to shoot. to rope cattle. They accom-
panied him everywhere he went, Gam
tering on broncos by the side Of his
Kentucky thoroughbred. Merry, dark
n..1I I1o1i lhafral I1ah4 aluroxS wn5a
upon the off side, and saucy Polly, with
golden curls, blue eyes,, n tip-tilted
nose, upon the near. The ex-Confed-
crate soldier dubbed them, in military
style, his fright and left wings" As
the three would make a raid'' upon
Florence, the county town, the In
habitants did not need to look out Of
doors to ascertain who were coming,
for the merriment of the little girls gave
sufficient indication. Here comes Jim
Allen ridin' like the destroyin' angel"
said young Sheriff Hoover, on one of
these occasions; II know him by the
rustlin' of his wings"
The household was again Increased
a few years later by the generous re-
sponse OF the Aliens to an appeal from
a Childron's Aid Society In an Eastern
city to give q home to two orphaned
brothers, Richard and Henry Lane.
"Dick" and Buddy (shortened In
time to Bud). as they were called. be-
ing taken young, quickly adapted
themselves to their new environment,
and by the time they arrived at man
hood had proved themselves the equals
of any cowboy on the range in horse
manship and kindred accomplishments.
Dick. the elder brother, was a steady,
reliable fellow, modest as he was brave,
and remarkably qulck-witted and re-
sourceful in emergencies. He ave his
confidence over readily to his fellows,
but II ever he found himself deceived.
withdrew it absolutely. 1t was prob
ably this last characteristic that at
tracted to him Echo Aliens especial
regard, for it was also her distinguish
ing trait. you la got to act square
with Echo" her father was wont to
say, for If you don't you'rl never make
it square with her afterward."
Bud was a generous-hearted, impetu-
GUS boy, who responded warmly to af-
lection. He repaid his elder brothers
protecting care with a loyalty that
knew no bounds. The colonel, who was
a strict disciplinarian, frequently pun
ished him in his boyhood for wayward
dClS, dflu LiNt llltlG l0liOW Hldu6 lO re-
sistance-only sobbed in deep penitence.
Once, however, when Uncle Jim, as the
boys and Polly called him, felt com
PEELED to apply the rod to Dick-un-
justly, as 1t afterward appeared-Bud
burst into a tempest of passionate
tears, and, leaping upon the ~coloneps
back, chung there clawing and striking
like a wildcat until Allen was forced to
let Dick go. 1t is shrewdly in
dicative of the colonels character
that not only did he refrain
from furnishing Bud on that occasion,
but, when foggings were subsequently
due the little fellow, laid on the rod
less heavily out of regard for the loyal
ty to his brother he had then dis
played.
This attack also won the admiration
of Polly Hope, who was something of
q spitfire herself. A little Jealous of
Dick for the chief place he held in
Buds affection. she openly claimed the
younger brother as her sweetheart, and
attempted to constitute him her knight
though with repeated discourage
ments, for Bud was a bashful lad, and,
though he had a true affection for the
girl, boylike concealed 1t by a show of
rude Indifference.
The tender relations of these boys
and girls persisted naturally into young
manhood and womanhood. No word Of
love passed between Dick and Echo
until hat time when the nesting i'm
pulse" the desire to have a home of his
own, prompted the young man to go
out into the world and win his fortu
For a year he had acted as rema Of
the Allen ranch, working in neighbour
ly cooperation with Jack Payson, Of
Sweetwater Ranch, a Hlan of about his
own age. The two young men became
the closest of comrades. When the
fever of adventure seized upon Lane,
and he became dissatisfied with the
plodding career of a wage-earner, Pay
son insisted on mortgaging Sweetwater
Ranch for three thousand dollars and
in lending Dick the money for a years
prospecting in the mountains of So
nora, Mexico, in search of a fabulously
rich "Lost Mine of the Aztecs."