Author of **The Blade of Picardy"
Copyright by Bobbs-Merrill Ce.
(WNU Service.)
THE STORY
———
In the city of New Orleans, in
1821, lL.oren Garde, recently an
officer under General Jackson, is
surprised by the appearance of
three figures, in ancient Spanish
costume, two men and a woman
whose beauty enchants him. Re-
senting the arrogance of the eld-
er of the two men, Garde fights
a duel with him with swords,
and wounds him. He learns his
opponent is Adolfo de Fuentes,
colonel in the Spanish army In
Venezuela, Garde overhears a
plot te overthrow Spanish rule
in Venezuela, Discovered, he
fights, but is overpowered, Garde
finds himself a prisoner on the
Santa Lucrecia, ship bearing
arms and ammunition for the
VYenezuelans, On board are the
conspirators, the lady of his love,
her brother Polito, and De Fu-
entes, From the girl, Garde
learns her name is Dulce Lamar-
tina, He loves her, but does not
reveal his love. The vessel is
wrecked and Garde reaches the
Venezuelan shore, alone. He en-
counters a stranger and sees
Dulce with De Fuentes and Po-
ito, Learning his history, the
stranger, who is Captain Mona-
han of the British legion under
Bolivar, urges Garde to join the
Venezuelans, but his mind is set
on again seeing Dulce. Monahan
directs him to friends in Carac
There Garde, supplied by M
han with the secret sign of
patriots, is welcomed at the
olutionary headquarters,
the
revs.
CHAPTER IV—Continued
w— —
Clever rogue! He knew that the
encircling loiterers, most of whom
were doubtless Spanish sympathizers,
must be appeased, so he had deliv-
ered the task of lying over to me,
Now Pedro Carrizal broke in again:
“Yes, Senor Frenchman, tell us where
You saw our amiable Manuel, and tell
ug why he dislikes the flavor of your
fist.”
“Assuredly,” said I, mixing
dacity and truth; “we had some words
at La Guaira, and Manuel's knife, by
chance, was slower than my
‘fore my lungs are
nen.
fist;
insacy,
th, as you might see
front.”
offered a
hile hig tes
ardly company
The swarthy
smile at this, and the crowd, laughing
went back to card games and
again,
Manuel turned to Carrizal
stowed another winl
this ail
Pedro.” Whereupon
ushered us
and after us;
standing with his bacl
drew a gleaming knife
“How you her
saw you fall into the sea.”
“The sea was
as well as the
you hold might
my fist.”
“Your life Is forfeit in Caracas,
Senor Garde. When that dye has
been removed the Colonel Fuentes will
pleased to you, he loves
you not at all; neither will the cause
of revolution suffer in your passing.”
‘And when I tell him of my mas-
querade as San Isidro In New Orleans,
and what I saw and heard?”
Manuel swore, and then
“Your interest, I think, is
Venezuela, nor with Spain.”
for
f
city of
sour
»
drinks
and be
‘ould speak
with fellow sailor
through a
closed it
come
Manuel,
wind—and that knife
still be slower than
Kind to me,
be See {i ir
laughed,
not with
“Never Spain, Manuel,
looked upon the
yan”
He replaced his knife In the scab-
bard at his belt. “lI have heard of
what Morales did to Tucayan; it is
merely one of the many payments
that we will have to make to purchase
freedom. But freedom, at any price,
is cheap.”
My heart suddenly warmed to this
earnest patriot. “I met an Irish sol-
dier on the road,” I sald, “Captain
Monahan, one of the British legion,
who offered me his trust. He helped
me change the complexion of my face
and hair, and he referred me to
Tomas Carrasco and the Cantina
Merida”
“And the sign of the Sociedad Patri
otico—17"
“He gave me that as well”
“Your life in this city, Senor, will
not be worth a silver real when Fuen-
tes finds you out. He has little cause
to love one who, in the space of an
hour, vanquishes him with the sword
and steals the heart of his lady.”
“How can you know that, Manuel?”
I cried hopefully,
“A mere matter of logic, a simple
thing indeed. New Orleans was filled,
one brilliant moonlit night, with the
hue and cry of the chase, and the
quarry was a tall, hatless, fair-haired
man who had stabbed the noble Col-
onel Fuentes during the course of a
duel in the Place d’'Armes, We found,
hiding In the apse reserved for San
Isidro, such a man, who afterward re.
fused to leave the Santa Lucrecia at
the safe port of Coatzacoalos. Be-
sides, the lady came to see him in his
prison, and sought him out again in
the fury of the storm. The lady jour.
neys to Caracas and the Viking dyes
his halr and beard and face and fol-
lows her, only to put his foolish head
into a noose.”
“Until the noose tightens, then
Manuel,” 1 sald, “my foolish head is
safe. It is a long way from Spain
to the cathedral, and I ‘ntend—"
The sallor gave himself over to
boisterous laughter, “But the cathe
dral has been reached, Senor, the
'fourney ended, for the Senorita Dulce
Lamartina will be married today at
‘Ligh noon—which Is within the hour—
I have
dead Tueca-
to Colonel Adolfo de Fuentes, military
aide of La Torre.”
“Name of G—a!"
“The truth,” sald Manuel ; “it catches
you—no?' He grinned, “How will
your efficient fists take care of such a
situation; will you push over the big
cathedral, or—1%"
“We can, at least, Manuel, go to the
wedding.”
“Madness, Senor! Surely you would
not do so wild a thing!”
“Why not? Is not the wedding »
public affair? I have taken care of
myself for many years, Manuel, and
expect to do so many more, If you
hesitate to accompany me, or fear that
evil might befall—"
“Not at all,” he cried, in high good
humor now; “I wouldn't miss it for
the finest ship In the Indies!”
As we entered the soft gloom of the
cathedral my heart was beating a
swift tattoo against my ribs, my
breathing was the labored breath of
the spent runner, and my body shook
in the palsy of arrant fear. I had be-
gun to cherish a faint hope that a
portion of the Senorita’s love had
been bestowed upon me, She had
come to my prison, had tried to save
me; she had sought me out in the
fury of the storm, and the light in her
eyes when she had found me . , , ah!
But who was Adolfo, what had he
done to win her? Why should
marry this drunken Spaniard, whose
loves were legion? When I had saved
her, and brought her to those in the
lifeboat, Adolfo had tried to kill me,
A wild rage possessed me. De Fuentes
would never marry her; I would throw
myself upon him at the altar, I would
put my fingers around his throat and
hold them there until he died, and all
the powers in the great cathedral
would not stop me, I would tear . .
A quieting hand was laid upon my
arm and Manuel's warning whisper
she
“Senor Moon.Wralth™
came to me: “Do you shake the roof
from the bullding, fool?
watched here ., . .
One is
"
As we moved slowly down the wide
aisle I could
chamber was
than twenty from the
we thanked him and, settled at
the suppressed mur
up from waiting
the
see (ha
filled,
spacious
usher seated
us Jess feet
altar;
last, listened to
mur that went
crowd.
“Yonder,”
prudent thumb,
for La Torre.”
1 studied the cold dignified man who
bore evident pride the gaudy
rappings of Lis rank. Had I never
seen the city of Tucayan I should have
disliked this cynical Spaniard whose
face was set In a mask of cruelty and
whose eyes were veiled by heavy lids
half closed as though to conceal his
crafty thoughts
This man, then, with the power of
Spain at his eall, had laid his hand
upon a city, and had destroyed all the
life it held. It hadn't been a gesture
of war, I remembered, for not a man
in Tucayan was armed. A deed of
senseless brutality—no less—this de-
struction of a helpless town and the
slanghter of its people, If Morales
represented Spanish methods in Vene-
zuela the cause of Bolivar, I reasoned,
was just,
Hot anger
the
said Manuel, pointing a
“is Morales, who acts
with
burned within me, the
racing blood pounded at my temples
and, falling to trembling again, I
gripped my fingers and ground my
teeth in a fury of impotence. The
glorious Lamartina was marrying the
alde of this monster, and the colonel's
emulation of the Butcher had earned
for him already a reputation as in-
famous as that of his chief,
Now Manuel touched my arm.
“Careful, my friend,” he whispered;
“such malignant looks ill become a
wedding, If you would conserve your
life you must control your face
I had come to realize at last that,
behind the unfavored face of the
swarthy and clever Manuel lay
thoughts most beautiful and profound;
and I wondered vaguely what manner
of man might be this Bolivar, the
father of the revolution; wherein lay
his hold upan his people.
Francisco had sald to me: “If Vene
zuela had a thousand men like you,
Senor, she would win her independ
ence out of hand,” Well, why not;
could this game we call life offer to
me any more fascinating sport? And
it Bolivar were half the man that his
amazing power over the people of
Venezuela seemed to Indicate, then
service under him would be a glorious
thing.
The swelling murmur of the throng
was stilled with startling suddenness,
and a sliver thread of music filled the
alr. It deepened into the slow har
mony of a march and, in time with
it, came a muffled sound of footfalls,
I bowed my head, for I dared not look.
They were coming down the aisle be-
side us,
After an Interminable walt the
priest's deep volee filled the cathedral
with toneless sound, 1 heard nothing
of what he sald; I not even
raise my She marrying
him, marrying that craven Spaniard.
Wherein had I failed: had I followed
her for this—to sit idly while she
gave herself in marriage to Adolfo, to
walt In muted an-
other man ... ?
I lifted my head ¢
at them. They st
serene, black-robed
could
eves, was
potence while
the brilliant uniform
arm free now, and
as falr, and as pale, as a lily,
garbed as a Heutenant in the
of his majesty, Ferdinand VIL
her, his head swathed
and other around
his she In
Pollto,
beside
bandage
throat,
My mad worship drew my
her downcast ace and held
there, 1 saw tender curve
of her cheek, and the sweetly pol
chin, which rembled, ise
playing + tin}
curls touched ar and ar dd
To
¢r neck,
again the
ntine
my
were
and
in
this love «
ute or two that s
the Senorita Lan
free of Caraca
fuiness In arms
Bolivar, for 1 could
again to peace and
great plantations,
"w % ay
Dios,” sald Ma
the
uel fm an anxious
r, “she has seen thee !™
w I realized ths
¢ had
past
}
hor lips were paried
looking
color came a
a deep sig
With outstretched
my airect
pective
the . Shn
moves In a
unseeing,
seemed like
her
extended as though in supplicatis
Before had taken steps 1
was on my feet and, In three strides,
stood before her, catching the sway-
ing figure as it fell
With a childiike sigh she snuggled
into the protection of my arms,
“Senor Moon-wraith,” she whispered
in a tiny voice that was drowned in
the swelling lamentations that filled
the cathedral. She raised a hand,
wonderingly, and touched my dark.
ened hale, “Is It Senor? 1
would"
“None other , .
Senorita?
“Hasten,” said a rasping voice at
my elbow; “you must escape”
“Save thyself, Manuel, good friend.”
1 said; “nothing they may do to me"
Now the crowd was upon us in an
overwhelming flood. Polito-—his face
as black as a thunder-cloud-—tore the
precious burden from my arms, sol
diers barked orders, women screamed
and children cried shrilly. Thrusting
bodies propelied me swiftly toward
the wide doorway, out of which we
tumbled In a scrambling heap.
{TO BE CONTINUED.)
one
trance, eyes her
:
1s
she two
the
« what have 1 done,
The origin of pyrotechny is un-
known, but the art was early prac-
ticed in the East. Although Inflam-
mable compositions (known as Greek
fire) were used in European warfare
before gunpowder had become known
among the western nations, fireworks,
in the modern sense of the word, be
came known to them about the middle
of the Fourteenth century and record
is found of their having been used as
an accessory of public pageantry in
the year 1088, The early development
of fireworks in Europe was due to the
Florentines, Fireworks have been as.
sociated with the Fourth of July from
the beginfilng. At the time of the
signing of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, John Adams, in a letter to
his wife, said: “It (Independence day)
ought to be solemnized with pomp and
parades, with shows, games, sports,
guns, bells, bonfires and Muminations,
from one end of this continent to the
other, from this time forward for
evermore.”
Virtue of Little Moment
I cannot praise a fugitive a1 clols
tered virtue, unexercised and une
breathed, that never sallies out and
sees her adversary, but sinks out of
the race, where that immortal garland
is to be run for, not without dust and
News Revi
assis
HEN Gen, Mario
Menocal and Col,
Carlos Mendieta were
captured by the Cuban
government troops
and locked up In Ca-
banas fortress, it ap-
peared to observers on
the island that the
revolution had col-
lapsed, Indeed, Pres-
{dent Machado started
off the week with the
Gen. Menocal. gnnouncement that
the revolt was over, that the rebels
were surrendering everywhere and
that there would be peace throughout
Cuba within a few days, The most
important of the remaining leaders
were sald to be in Santa Clara prov-
Ince with rather small bands of fol-
lowers, Aviators were sent out to fly
over rebel territory dropping leaflets
announcing that Machado would grant
amnesty to all who surrendered im-
mediately.
But the revolutionists had not yet
reached the end of their resources. A
filibustering landed men
from half a dozen countries and quan-
tities of arms and ammunition at
| Gibara, near the eastern end of the
island, and that port was captured
and fortified. The government imme.
diately moved against this force, and
| there followed the bloodiest
| battles ever fought in Cuba. The gpn-
hoat the Gibara
| fortress and a inflicted a
defeat
expedition
one of
Patria destroyed
land army
i crushing
the filibusters. Me
the
on
town, which
It was reported
that fn ut revolutionists
i killed
wore heavy ¥.
ypped bombs
was badly
on
shattete
casualties
1 wifi l {st v t sT
uid make no comment on
it was the general opin
the
renewed opris
dily the reforms
1 y nls that only way
| Machad«
{ Ings is
along democratic lines that his admin.
prevent
to enact sped
| {stration promised, Certainly the
American government hopes he will
| adopt this course, for it has no desire
to intervene in fal: of the
island republic and will not do so un-
less developments bring on 1
virtual anarchy there,
state of
EXAS stand beside
Oklahoma In fight against
rainously low prices for crude oil, and
it was expected tl Kansas a
would adopt measures for curtailment
The net result, It was
for
possibly
oil
taken iis
the
has
iso
of production.
be higher prices
and
American
believed, would
midcontinent
the stabilization of
industry.
crude oil
the
Following action by the legisiature,
Gov. Rterling ordered the
complete shutdown of the 10600 pro
ducing oll and gas wells of the great
enst Texas area, and then sent about
a thousand National Guardsmen into
four counties to enforce the order,
martial law being proclaimed. No re-
sistance was met, the larger com.
panies closing their wells before the
soldiers arrived
Governor Sterling, himself an oll
man, predicted higher crude prices and
estimated the Texas and Oklahoma
shutdowns would take about one mil
lion barrels a day off the market. He
sald martial law in east Texas will not
be lifted until the state railroad com-
mission has issued proration orders,
Governor Murray of Oklahoma, who
originated the idea of dealing with
overproduction by declaring martial
law, sent a message of congratulation
to the Texas executive.
Most of the operators in the oil re
gions planned to care for employees
during the shut down period. Drilling
was continued as usual for there was
no ban on bringing in new wells pro-
vided they were shut down immedi.
ately.
Ross 8.
OLITICAL observ.
ers in Illinois saw,
in the latest epi
sode of the Frank L.
Smith case, indieation
that the man who was
elected to the United
States senate by 1.
nois and was twice
denied a seat In the
upper house because
of Samuel Insull's
contributions to his
campaign fund, might
seek again to represent his state In
the senate. What has happened is
that Mr, Smith has made public the
fact that Julius Rosenwald, Chicago
financier, between the primary and the
election of 1026, offered him stock in
Sears, Roebuck & Co, then worth
$555,000, to withdraw from the Repub.
lican nomination. Mr, Rosenwald is
too ill to be Interviewed but his inti-
mate friends admit the truth of the
story and uphold the purity of the
financier's motives in thus seeking har-
mony within the Republican party,
Mr. Smith, at his residence In
Dwight, said:
“l did not issue the statement for
political purposes, If I intended to
use it for such, I would have used it
in my two campaigns for the senate
and again last year, 1 issued it be.
cause others saw fit to write a book
about the case and because they did
not give the people all the facts,
“As to my future action politically,
I shall be governed by conditions.”
If 8mith should file for the senator-
ship nomination, he will have Senator
Glenn as his opponent in the Repub-
lican primaries, He was defeated for
retired former
upheaval which also
Governor Small,
HERE cannot be any general re-
vival of prosperity until the na-
tions of Europe settle thelr political
disputes id the German reparations
have Such is the opin-
fon of the Wiggin committee of inter
national bankers at Basel which was
appointed to study Germany's finan-
cial needs and capabilities, The Gers
man government was greatly encour
aged by the report, and one of its offi-
cials that a new
ances, politics and reparations must
be called
rope hopes
Hoover,
been revised,
said conference on
uld be called by Pres-
ident
JR FCURRING reports that President
Hoover would cal pecial ses
sion of cor
f oo
un-
local
meet.
tate and
kind In
yment crisis during the
every
chairman
national committee,
with a statement demanding
President Hoover “more positive
n and less theoretical investiga-
nsserted that the President
is sper Ig more
how many persons will be out of work
next winter than he Is in taking meas-
ures for their relief,
Jouett Shouse, executive
of the Democratic
Came out
tion.’
time ascertalning
2 D*® HEN
Prichett,
RY
dent emeritus of the
Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement
of Teaching, in the
annual report of the
foundation makes the
bold assertion that
the Jeaders of the
American Legion “in-
tend to raid the treas-
ury of the United
States.” And he ques-
tions the patriotism of war veterans
who ask pensions or bonuses when un-
injured. Under the subheading *“Pa-
triotism, Pensions and Politics,” Doe
tor Prichett says:
“There has come about in our coun-
try a complex of patriotism, bonus
seeking, and politics the like of which
can be found in no other nation on
earth, Organizations that started in
pure patriotism have lent themselves
to pension lobbying on such a form as
to demoralize both the veterans and
congress.”
“Erroneous and unfair” is what
Ralph T. O'Neil, national commander
of the American Legion, says of the
Prichett statement, adding:
“The American Legion never has In
the past or, in my opinion, never will
in the future, ask anything that is un-
fair or that will place an unjust finan-
cial burden on the country.”
He says the real objective of the vet.
erans’ organization has been to get
disability compensation, but that it
never has asked a pension for able-
bodied men, ,
R. T. O'lleil
———
ROM a preliminary treasury state
ment ig derived the unpleasant in-
formation that the government suf-
fered a drop of more than $600,000,000
in internal revenue collections during
the fiscal year 1981, the first full year
during which tates were effected by
the economic depression and the fall.
ing stock market. Total collections
for that year were $2428 228700. In-
come taxes yielded $1,500,040,400, a
decline of £550,000,000, while miscel-
ianeous internal revenue accounted for
collections of S508,188.200, a drop of
$01,008,240.
Corporation Income taxes netted the
government $1,020,202,608, a decline of
$207,021,700, and Individual taxes
$833,047,700, a decrease of $313,100.
000, reflecting the depressed conditions
in the business world and the wide va.
riations of collections in times of pros.
perity and in times of depression.
While both corporation and individ-
ual income taxes were cutting a deep
swath In government revenues, miscel-
laneous taxes showed only a small
loss despite the business slump,
All tobacco taxes for the fiscal year
amounted to $444,270.500, a decrease
of but $6,002.500, Of this total clga-
rettes accounted for $3058,915,100, rep-
resenting a reduction of $601,086,
The government stamp tax figures
emphasized the extent to which busi-
ness slumped in the stock market and
commodities exchanges. Collections
on capital stock sales and transfers
dropped from $40,608226 In 1980 to
$25,510,900, representing a decline of
$21,178,200,
The figures for the produce markets
indicated that sales for future dellv
ery had been cut more than half, The
taxes on sales of products on ex
changes were given as $1.082000 fos
1031, as compared with $3,500,875 dur
ing the previous year, when business
conditions were better,
Notwithstanding the lowered collec
tions, the government found that ff
cost more proportionately to gather
the smaller taxes than it bad during
the years of prosperity.
UVITE
Rafael
Herrera,
vian
recently
JATZ0 ¥
noted Peru
political leader
former minister
of foreign affairs, are
rived Lima by
airplane. He has now
been nominated for
pre
Peru by
mist party,
from
the
and it is
excels
lent chance of being
So Senor Largo started back
day to participate In
and again he traveled
the alr route. He thus was toe
passenger to make & round trip
ine between Peru nnd New York
ef visit to this conn-
sald stands ar
sald stands an Rafael Largo.
elected.
home the other
the «¢
lections,
a day or so In Washing
has many and
friends
friends
American rellef
viser to the Chinese
nds word that the
NCE m
now fallen like
many another, Prof.
Augustinas Walde
maras, former dicta-
tor of Lithuania, was
put on trial before a
court martial at
RKagnas on charges
of ing a revolt
; 3 to over
by Ww t! present
int dictatorship of
President Anthony
Jonas Tubelius.
but
ghty
M.Waldemaras
Smetona and
a remier
Twenty-f«
The plot was be-
thorities by several of
adherents
of the Iron Wolf organi
was expected their testimony
result in severe sentences for those
accused. Professor Waldemaras, who
returned to Kaunas from his place of
exile near Memel to attend the trial,
sald the charges were exaggerated,
which sounds like a weak defense.
There won't be any sympathy for him
in Poland, for when he was in power
he was the bitter foe of that country
and of its dictator, Marshal Plisudski
EVELOPMENTS in the New York
legislative investigation of the
administration of New York city may
bring about a political feud between
Jovernor Roosevelt and Tammany
Hall that would have a decided effect
on the governor's chances for the Dem-
ocratic Presidential nomination. Some
of his friends believe a break with
Tammany might help rather than hin.
der his cause in that matter and would
bring him support from other states
where the leading Democrats have
been holding aloof from the Roosevelt
boom because of fear that he was too
closely allied with Tammany. These
friends think that even If Tammany
should turn hostile, Roosevelt could
earry New York state against Mr.
Hoover unless there should be a great
improvement in the economic situation
within a year,
Leading members of Tammany
would not discuss for publication their
attitude toward Roosevelt because
the Tammany policy apparently Is to
avold an open break with the gov.
ernor so long as he has the state
patronage at his disposal and remains
a decided Presidential possibility.
OING back to IHlinois for a mo
ment : Newton Jenkins of Chicago
has announced his candidacy for the
Republican nomination for United
States senator on a platform of oppo.
sition to the renomination of President
Hoover. Mr. Jenking who is forty.
four years old, an ex-service man and
a lawyer, has twice before been a can
didate for seuntor,
G0 1931, Western Newsoaver Unions