George Manville Fenn
"To Win or to Die"
Chapter One.
A break-down.
“It’s a lie! I don’t and I won’t believe it.”
The speaker half whispered that, and then he shouted, “Do you hear?”
There was a pause, and then from the face of a huge white snow-cliff there came back the word “hear.”
“Well done, echo!” cried the speaker.