Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-01-29
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$500 ~ lei
iies shouid return laIds pfovide .. home
for her. Her more cautious mother Sc.
cured a modification OF this pledge by
lainiIting che tifne. sahaA sEcho should
lEwait forShim to one years If at the ex
Ispira ton OF That period Zane did not
return to claim her promise or did NOT
Iswrite3 King satisfa otoryS u arrange;
ments for continuance Of the engage,
ment Echo was to be considered freu
to marty hon1 she chose. y: ~
Soon fafter Lanes departure Mrs.
Allen persuaded the colonel i to- send
Echo east to a New England finishing
school for GIRLS. where her mother
hoped that her budding love for Lane
might be nipped BY the frigid atmos-
phere of intellectual. culture, II snot, in
deed, supplanted BY "a saving interest
In young men in. general and perhaps
In some particular scion of "a blue
FLOODED Boston family. s.s ss:5l %gg$z::tsSss
= The plan. succeeded in part. only
The companionship@ OF. her schoolfel-
lslows,tf her music and art lessons, her
books during. the limited periods al:
.otted to serious study and reading
! and above all, her attrition at Erecep.
tons with another order 5of men than
that she had known I'M the rough un:
cultured west occupied her mind $50
fully that poor Dick Lane, who: was
! putting a thought of Echo, Allen :, in
every blow Of his pick received only
the scraps Of her attention. w .5s. :.
Dick had few opportunities to mali
HaSletter and none Of them for receiv.
Fling one. 1Unpracttced in writing, his
epistolary compositions were crude in
| the extreme, being wholly confined
to bald statements of fact. Had he
been rs tender on paper as he was in
/; his words and accents when he kissed
away her tears at parting her; regard
for MIN would have had fuel to feed
on and might. have kindled into, genu-
Inc love: AS it was, she was forced
to admit that In comparison with the,
brilliant university men with whom
she conversed Dick Lane intellectually
was as quartz to diamond. SFIi .5s: 4
On the other hand, she coptrasted
Dick in the essential point OF manli-
ness most ~favorably with the male
butterflies Of " society that lowered
around her. What one Of them was
SO essentially chiyairous as the west
ern man-5o modest, SO self sacriflc-
ing, so brave and resolute and re-
sourceful? Dick Lane, or Jack Day
CON fov that p,nttor >, tn oil e.o1,a +J,r
adventurous points of education and
culture, was the higher type OF. man
hood, and Jack, at least If not poor
Dick, could hold his own In mental
and artistic perception with the
| brightest most cultured Of Harvard
graduates. y -,s:.z ~ Z s.
At the. end of the year she came
back home to await Dick return from
the wilds of Mexico.i, There:wa great
anxiety about his safety. for, Geroni-
mo, attacked by; Crook Ia the Apache
z stronghold of the Tonic basin, had esr
capped to the mountains Of northwest
sern Mexico with his band Of fierce CHI
!, ricahuas. "S'.:-. ~. a3.s ,FS;E.sS '!s
Now, Dick Lane had not been heard
from in this region. When he neither
made appearance nor sent a message
upon the daysappointed for his return,
his brother, Bud. was for; setting ont
Instantly to find him and rescue him
EtfShe were in difficulties. . &5
Then It was that Echo Allen discov-
cred the true nature Of her affection
for her lover that 1T WAC sisterly re-
gard, differing only In degree, but not
In kind, from that which she felt for
his brother. She Joined with Polly In
opposing Buds going, urging his. reck-
lessness as reason. You are certain
10 be killed, ;" she said, "and I cannot
lose you both = \! Jack Payson, for
whom Bud was working, then came
forward and offered to accompany him
and keep within bounds. Again there
Twas revelation Of her heart to Echo,
lone that terrified her. with sense
|3of disloyalty. Il was Jack she really
loved, noble. chivalric, wonderful Jack
IPayson. whom, with d southern girls
fintensityasof feeling she had auncon-
Escfously come to fregard, SO iierastand-
lard OF all that makes for manhood.
fsPIausible objections q could Il not M be
urged against his sacrificing himself
for his friend. with an Irresistible
Impulse she cast herself upon 3 his
breast and said, 81 cannot bear to nee
ron co.: sSs.
Payson gently disengaged her arms.
must Echo 1T Ii what Dick
lwould do TOR me if 4 were In bis
place. 5}s@
However. while Payson and Bud
were preparing for their departure
Buck Mckee appeared IN the region and
lsreported that Dick Lane had been
KILLED BY the Apaches He told with
convincing details how be had met
Lame as each was returning from %
lsuecessfuI prospecting trip II the
IGhogt range and how they had sunk
their differences Id standing together
lagainst an attack of the Indians He
extolled Dick ss bravery. relating how,
Iseverely wounded, he had stood OF the
isaYages to- enable himself to escape
When he handed over Dick watch