The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-22
CONTINUED From Yesterday


Traditions of lost mines are plentiful
in Arizona and northern Mexico. First
taken up by the Spanish invaders of
three hundred years ago from the ma
tive Indians, they have been passed
down to each subsequent influx of
vague The inquirer canno pin his
informant down to any definite data.
Over the mountains always lies the
road. Hundreds of lives have been
sacrificed, and cruelty unparalleled
practised upon innocent men. women
and children. by ~gold-seelSers in their
lust for conquest. Prosperous Indian
villages have been laid waste, and
whole bands of adventurers have gone
into the desert in the search of these
mines, never to return.
When the time for Lanes departure
came Echo wept at the thought of
losing for so long a time the close
companion of her childhood and the
sympathetic confidant of her youth
full thoughts and aspirations. Dick.
in whom friendship for Echo had long
before ripened into conscious love, took
her tears as evidence that she was
similarly affected toward him, and he
allowed all the suppressed passion of
his nature full vent in a declaration of
love. The girl was deeply moved by
this revelation of the heart of a strong
man made tender as a woman's by
a power centering in h w humble
self, and, being utterly without expe-
,iapca ne TIM arnnfion evan i'm fta nrN-
tectiye form of calf-iove, Which is the
varioloid of the genuine infection. she
imagined. through sheer sympathy,
that she shared his passion. So she as
scented with maidenly reserve to his
plea that she promise to marry him
when he should return and provide Q
home for her. Her more cautious
mother secured a modification of this
pledge by limiting the time that Echo
should wait for him to one year. If al
the expiration of that period Lane did
not return to claim her promise. or did
not write making satisfactory arrange
ments for continuance of the engage
ment, Echo was TO be considered free
to marry whom she chose.
Soon after Lanes departure Mrs.
Allen persuaded the colonel to send
Echo east to a New England finishing
school for girls, where her mother
hoped that her budding love for Lane
might be nipped by the frigid atmos-
phere of intellectual culture, if not.
indeed. supplanted by a saving interest
in young men in general, and, perhaps,
in some particular scion of a blue
blooded Boston family.
Tf,a ,,1an e,,o.aoIal fa ~ rt n,,It- rThe
companionship of her schoolfellows, her
| music and art-lessons, her books dur
ing the limited periods allotted to Sc
rious study and ~reading), and. above
all, her attrition at receptions with an
other order of men than that she had
known in the rough, uncultured West,
occupied her mind so fully that poor
Dick Lane. who IA putting a thought
of Echo Allen in every blow of his
pick, received only the scraps of her
attention.
Dick had few opportunities to mail q
letter, and none of them for receiving
one. U~npractlsed in writing, his epis-
tolary compositions were crude in the
extreme, being wholly confined to bald
statements of fact. Had he been as
tender on paper as he was in his words
and accents when he kissed away her
tears at parting, her regard for him
would have had fuel to feed on and
might have kindled into genuine love.
AS It was, she was forced to admit that,
in comparison with the brilliant
university men with whom she con-
versed, Dick Lane, intellectually, was
az quartz to diamond.
on the other hand, she contrasted
Dick in the essential point OF manli-
ness most favorably with the male but
~terfies of society that lowered around
her. What one of them was so essen
TALLY chivalrous as the Western man;
so modest. SO self sacrificing, so brave
and resolute and resourceful? Dick
Lane, or Jack Payson, for that matter,