INI
0
SYNOPSIS.
Lleutenant Iolton is detach®d from
mmand in the navy at the outss
panish-American war and
important secret serv duly
Ing at a Washington hotel
walter In the sot of robbing
oung lady. Sig «bay ike hey he hig sors
ce and gives her name as Miss La Tossa
3 f= patri Later he meets her a
w oll a ae rot salvh @ Aan warns 1lo0i-
bop that the girl is a spy Senor La
i ‘o8sa chides his daugh for her
to secure important rmation
Holton. Bhe leaves
Cuba. Holton is
They meet on the
La Tossa tells Fl
py and expresses i
sincerity of the U nited States
ordered to remain at Tampa t«
troop jlransports He receiv
land Miss La Tossa, who is considered a
dangerous spy. on Cuban soll At
he is overtaken y another
which takes Miss aboard
Holton is ordered n to Tampa
e saves the transports from destructior
at the hands of dynamit
to Admiral! Sampson
Holton Is sent to Gener:
mand In the gulse newspaper
respondent to In te «
against the Amer ps
the plans of the
tects a trusted C
of fomenting trou
in the Interests of
is seized by friends of the spy and t
is ordered executed as a spy. He escapes
and saves the American ros from fall-
ing into a Spanish ambush Hae learns
from Gen. Garcia that the spy Is Joss
Cesnola, one of the most trusted leaders
Holton takes part in the battle at San
Juan.
he
a beautiful
re garding
Holton
y guard t
a8 orders
and
¢ om-
COr-
ylots
and to learn
‘uban
Ps
CHAPTER X.—~Continued.
Presently he came to a street which
presented a vista of a long line of
street lamps. Evidently it led
the heart of the city. Holton followéd
it past stores and houses, until at
Tength he stood in the patio before the
“palace.” Here there were lights in
all the windows. Evidently the official
machinery was working overtime. The
ights gave him a sense of comfort,
the doubtful sort of comfort that a
man out in the cold feels when he
looks in at a company gathered about
a genial fire,
Holton's emotions were those of a
pariah. He was an outcast, and more
than that an outcast who would speed
ily feel a hempen rope about his neck
if he were not extremely careful
Somehow the thought that he was a
spy had slipped his mind for the time
being.
For more than an hour he stumbled
along, leaving the city, crossing the
tracks of the Sabanilla and Maroto
railroad, until he came to a gate
guarded by a thatched lodge. Upon
the walls of the gate were emblazoned
the Spanish coatofarms. It was
thrown back, and a soldier stood In
the opening.
“Who comes there?’ he asked,
bringing his gun across his chest
“Cardenas,” cried Holton, giving the
counterzign as he had heard It several
times that night
He walked forward
“l have a message from General To
ral for Senor La Tossa.
here?” he added.
The sentinel threw his gun into the
hollow of his arm.
“No,” he replied. “You
up this road two miles. It
estate on your left.”
Holton politely thanked the soldier
and proceeded on his way. His shoes
were caked with mud and his clothing
dragged heavily. And he was both
tired and sleepy.
in a dream.
than half awake.
And yet he was not aware of the
passage of a great amount of time
when he passed In front of another
thatched lodge, with the dark outlines
f a large house, lying back on the top
must walk
is the first
He Glued Mis Eye to the Crevice,
of a gentle hill. There was no soldier
at the gate here, and as he walked up
the winding path he could not dis
cover a single light In the great man.
sion. At least he could see nothing In
the way of illumination until he got
quite close, and then through a crevige
in the tightly drawn shades of what
apparently was one of the larger
rooms he made out a tiny gleam. At
least the house was nol deserted.
He walked close to the window and
found that the front veranda passed
under it. So he mounted the steps
i
IMustrations by
Her YY as
YE
ndow, glued his
to the crevice,
eye
some in uniform, drinking and
smoking. The finn
indistinct, and although Holton
catch tis sownd of thelr
could make what
sald
As he crouched thus under
dow-ledge the front door opened,
pas
the
men
could
volces,
Tet out was being
the win
and
Here
which was
With a muttered excla-
stranger retraced his
walking directly
direction, leaned over
ig and whistled again
never afterward knew
of long veranda
the
steps, and, past
ton in the other
the railiz
Holton
door
thought,
had left front
Acting upon quick
ily leaned down, unlaced
and then, with a quick glance
still leaning the
man the
ajar.
sudder
shoes,
at the
railing
fellow
ii over
and cursiz
ing
he stole from his position, made for
into the hall
with a deep red shade
noiselessly
A light
buruing here,
were heavy. The door of the room in-
open,” and across the hall, directly
posite, was a corresponding room,
interior of which was not lighted.
Into this apartment,
ing, Holton stole, standing inside
jefore
sense of what was being said, the
who had emerged from the door when
Holton was on the veranda returned
into the hall,
tered the lighted room
tired in
the navy
quiet somewhat the ardor of the argu
ment,
“It is agreed, then gentlemen
The voice
Holton, in an ecstasy of
craned his head forward.
“l for one deny IL" was
response
“But aside
the rejoinder,
we not?”
There was a che
Then Hoilt
recognized; a voice that sent
down his spine and caused him
loosen his revolver in {ts holster.
“Shafter's army alowe would not suf-
fice. But I know that General
with reinforcements will soon be here,
and 1 know, also, that while General
Shafter would prefer to abandon
present position, he will not do so. |
can Inform too, that the lines of
our army be attacked by
row, and th
eagerness
the
from you, general”
we seem unanimous
aszaent
voice that
rus of
on heard a
you,
will not
wat a long
be entered upon. The Amer
icans are in excellent health, and they
will starve us to submission.”
It was the voice of the waiter of
New Willard,
“But, Senor Cesnola,” iaterposed
first speaker, “you have led us to be
lieve that within a week, at least, your
Cuban rebels will turn upon the Amer
fcans”
“They w when | give the word”
“Then why not give it?”
“Because the time is not ripe.
would be wiped out of existence
time must come when the fever
begun its work and the army is be.
ginning to be demoralized Two
three five more days in the treaches
on the hillsidea under this hot sun,
will do our work for us.”
“Gentlemen,” went on the first
speaker, “my mind is made up. To
morrow Is the 2nd of July. We shall
make no move then, But [| warn you,
if on the morning of July 3 the situa-
tion is still unchanged the fleet will
leave Santiago harbor. Orders from
Blanco are getting imperative
survive the
we shall be sale;
believe,
nor
the
£11
ih
They
That
it cannot be taken, |
in a year's siege
the end of our navy and the unsuccess
ful close of this war”
“Bo this Is your decision?”
another volce.
“Those are my orders and they are
final”
Holton, trembling like a leaf, his
mouth hanging open, drank in the
words as a drowning man drinks in
his last breath of alr. He could hard.
ly eredit his senses,
Here, after a night of aimless
stumbling through the blackness and
through the rain, he had chanced upon
the very place of all places where in.
formation most valuable to his coun:
try’'s success was to be olalned,
The voices had fallen to a hum and,
strain his ears as he would, he could
catch no more than fragmentary sen
tences. Some one went out at the
door, and presently the sound of
horses’ hoofs was heard on the shell
driveway. Three men departed, and
then Holton heard the scraping of
chairs and the rattle of glasses, as
though those that remuined were pre
inquired
1
paring to spend some further time in
thelr pre quarters,
Holton having put o
on the point into
and out by the door when he
exposing hirg as it would to
course,
room,
sent
4 shoes,
of stealing the hall
that this
detect
turn d
ion, was not the So
back into the
window
hed the
a sudden bl
Wis ©
he purpos
iO open |
As his hand
was startled by
aud a voice
“Well, sir
ey
toue
cat~u
Lie
he
what are doing
you
to cont the
He turned
woman he loved
CHAPTER XI.
ront
young
A Close Call,
Holton's first instinct
the girl's name: but
thought to his
broke into a volley of Spanish ej:
As he went on she
fixedly, and finally, se
settle
paused
Her
was to utter
flagshiug
came rescue, and he
stood
garding him
a peculiar
wonderful face,
“Mr. Hol
guttural
Holton sprang toward her
“Miss La" Tossa
sxprossior HOON
expr siOn (pon
he
ton! voles
His voice
ng with emotion
pointing her
=" v ’
tanee
low, quiver
She stepped back, and,
Sir, What Are
Here!”
You
finger at him, repeated with
What are you doing here?
stopped and looked at him
realize what you have d
She reached up hastily and ext!
the lamp she had lighted
‘Mr. Holton,” she cont red,
young officer stood silently
her, you truly no
live?
I was captured
plied Holton
"How
Gone
egarding
have Eg
in the
“I escaped and
why did you come in
“Because a soldier on the
mean a farmer-—-a planter
this was your home.”
“And you wish me to hide you?
"No, | wish to leave”
“But you cannot.”
“1 came in here; am able to leave”
“No, you are not,” she whispered
“General Toral's and Admiral Cer
Yera's escort are outside She
peered out of the window
battle’
and
here?
road--1
told me
now."
Holton
the front
mounted
lutely.
“But | must get away at once.”
remonstrated. “I cannot stay here
“Then why did you come here? How
did you get In?”
“I wanted to see you”
ton
looked for himeuel
of the house
men He
lined
faced her
with
"
replied Hol
“The door was open, and | walke
MILLSTONE AROUND A TREE
A
Seed Sown in the Center in Course of
Time Lifted Up a Com
fortable Seat.
“Sometimes nature turns to an unex
pected use the handiwerk of man”
says Dr. Charles G. Percival in his
new book, “The Trall of the Bulldog.”
At Sheldon’s Mill, near South Devore,
N.Y, there 18 a very corafortable seat
of stone around a huge tree which pus
eles visitors, as the stone Is natural
without a single break to show how
it got around the tree trunk.
The story is that a discarded mill
stone lay on the ground for many
years, and a seed blown by the wind
dropped Into the core of the stone and
grew there, finally growing Into a
tree, filling the hole in the center of
Bae 100KeG ar mim 8 moment d0uwe
fully. Then she shook her head
“That was not why you came here.
You did not come here to see me.”
“But, nevertheless, | wanted to see
you."
She went on as though he had not
spoken
It Is
to
in
now.” She was
when steps were
hall and a volce called
quite clear
continues,
the
“Ranee! Ranee,
She pushed Holton
heavy tapestry by
looked out into the
“Yes, father Here 1
“Oh, yes! I wish
prepare a
He
us.”
daughter!”
into the folds
the door, and
hall,
am.”
you would ask
guest. room for
decides to remain
my
£4]
Cesnola.
with
es, i
warning
into
and with a
Tossa went
thane
Laer,
‘Ssh!” Miss La out
The two men stood near the door,
“My daughter”
“18 stil
us
complained la Tos
esti She escaped
before the battle on
was gone the
Very or ve
the day
ard entire
day.”
“ft ‘Jue
§
ot TIL" was
She wilf do no ha. a now,
for, while your daughter counts on the
nine exploding have
juished can assure you that the
will be lighted a great while 1}
*hat rather visionary event’
“You told young naval o
wr who was »
cited.”
rather sorry
able young
“You
re
tha 1 of
a
after they van-
us, 1
yy
me that 44 88
ith Garcia had
La Tossa 1
that, He was
apparently.”
ex
“am
a lik
bi ve
went on
for
man
need spare
joinder, WwW
believed my
But, as {t
grief,”
ormed
your was
hen |
orders
go inf
% had be
irs, he
Wn Car
al Pe en
ca ped
Your orders!
‘And wl
rogatives of life
ejaculated La Tossa
’
en h he pre
Ave you assumed i
and death?”
ume such preroga
wis the
Holton was in
work. He was
consequences, i
arrant for
wound
not
DCCRAEIO
This young m
on to undo my
As a
iller's name to 4 w
That may
but this is
quiet i
an
fact
War,
hitd's play.”
Holton's eyes fairly glared throu
3
yet, despite his
and >
that
the darkne
he pleased to know
rous order the work
» and that it had not the
Was
was
renegade
tion of auth
“Well |
¥
ority
must
executed,”
“My daughter”
is, 1 believe,
“And you prove
“Oh, it has not
But I do know that In
little secret amour has
her a repressing influ
her to
say 1
remarked
his voice
very
am glad he
la Te
sank
fond of him
was
EER
LOW
not
aj
#0 far as that
some way her
exerted upon
has caused
-in other
which for
:
gone
fluence,
io brood
vities
mope and
worry.”
Tossa appeared at the mo
the two men rejolbed thelr
in the opposite room
you " ahe
Holton epped
listen, Miss La Tossa, | have
ing 1 wish to tell you When 1
before [| was reas
your fears as to country
I have days
leaders of our and 1
intentions i to
you as a man of honor that
Santiago is taken, as
ty and the province are
the Spaniards AS BOOD As
is restored hers
to withdraw”
¢ tis
is true
here whispered
before her
unable to
ur
seven
ye
I am spent
{ the Barmy,
thelr wish 5%
as
an OOD RE
utterly
and
our
troops are
she whispered tense
1 heard Ad
Sampson and several high army
General Garcia that as
practicable the Americans
withdraw, leaving him, General
as governor of the province
there Is no doubt of this at all
heard it with my own ears"
Are
true, and more
soon
would
aR
Now,
he added
She met his hand impulsively
“Yes, 2 thousand times, and
Americans!”
Holton drew her fingers to his lips
Az he bent thus a
the doorway and a
sod
darkened
}
i
“A very charming picture, indeed!
Holton swung around quickly, and
his face writhing with a
nine grin, stood Cesnola Hol
flash of steel
jon a line with the man's walst gave
(TO BE CONTINUED)
the stone, and as the tree grew in
#ize the stone was gradually lifted
from the earth, making the unique
seat. Rural Farmer
Norway Replanting Forests.
Founded in 1900, the Hergero Tree
taken a task which will require many
years and large expenditures of money
and moor to complete, as it proposes
to cover the mountain sides‘and the
untillable acres of western Norway
with forests as they were centuries
ago. Assisted by wealthy contribu.
tors and timely government aid, it has
excellent prospects of succeeding.
Since the society started, 13 years ago,
86,606,000 young trees have been pro.
duced, covering about 14,000 acres
within the borders of the two Bergen
bus counties,
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DAUGHTER IN
riage of Eleven-Year-0ld Girl
Child Is Turned Over to the Care of
Unitea Charities Society——Little An-
na Consented to Sacrifice to Help
Father Bedfast Yor Months.
Wilkes -Barre.—The
ties prevented the marriage of a mine
worker, 40 years old, and an eleven
yearoid girl, who had consented to
wed the man in order give her
injured father a home and the necessi-
ties of life. John Sodusky, the father,
has been bedfast for months from an
injury received in the mines and was
without means to support himself and
daughter. The little girl consented to
marry the mine worker when he
agreed to care for her helpless Yather
and a marriage license was procured
The man and girl to Wilkes-
Jarre to be married, but they
could find a clergyman the county an
thoritles heard the Intended mar
riage and took the two before Judge
Fuller, of the County Court. After
hearing the the ordered
the child t f
are oi
the United fety. little
Anna
ding the
pub ¢
Lopez, consented to
county authori
{oO
Came
before
of
Case
1
court
urneq i
over to the «
Charities Soc
who has been at'er
schools at
make the }
willl
in
i hon oe
or conld got 3st
of life. Skobon cons
for the crippled fa
were permitted to
A marriage leer
Lopez. The f
he peace
parent
a child brid
a pries
of ih
t, the
1¢ Chae 30
Judge
After hear + facts
dacread
were fToreed
¥ i oi
Faller the
©
n take pl
: \
ure arriage could
befor
that
love }
Ww iared
not !
bacsome
snd
was willing to
3} 3 rv fa
vi ¢ ther
Heart Balm Based on Arrest.
Semnton
oCMMniuor
of Arch baid,
foreman
that
When
woul marry her tomor
was heartbroken,
smpany for
worn a dis
a Year h try
ad
Young woman
had kept ox
fhe
and
ent
years,
had
¢
nd engagen
sOr r
ring
ready and the bann
lished and
gaged ceremony
reason the man
breaking ment
m
his ¢
ISSOAY Was
pub
been
church,
m
for o
ung
priest
would
was
approve of
ly brought =u
CnEaARe
did not
Kel
y 3
cauneed Joseph
Tr
match. Mis
$10,000 and
tod ¢ 5
eG On a
atl
is
a4 0%
to be ar
ree capiasg
Women Drop Hammers,
Seranton - Twent
and a hundred
their
worked
vile
lead members
' overalls
ammer and
“Billy” Sunday tabernacle
ed in preparation for the coming
the evangelist in March. Five women
also gave a hand for a while, but there
weren't enough hammers and saws to
go around, and they had to give way.
They started at 8 o'clock with a pray-
er and kept 1t up all day, although
it was very cold for outside work
with } caw
being erect
of
Months With Broken Neck.
Towanda. Charles Chamberiain, a
farmer and father of 10 children, died
after lingering three months with a
broken neck. He was breaking a ocoit
on October 16, and was thrown on his
head Chamberlain was a powerful
man, and he suffered no pain, just
wasted away, and was reduced from
200 pounds to a mere skeleton.
in Front of Express to Die.
Bristol. Alfred Deans, of Philadel
phia, was struck and instantly killed
by an express train on the Reading
Rallway at Yardley. Deans, a boas
istributing system near the station
and stepped from behind a freight
train directly Into the
approaching express
Beat and Rob Express Agent,
Scranton-~While Edward Roche,
noon, he was attacked by two masked
men, who beat him over the head
until he became unconscious.
So——————
her early married life, spent near |
bing, loading, splitting and crossing
logs, some of which were heavy
snough for three men.
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