Copyright by Bobbs-Merrill Co.
THE STORY
In the city of New Orleans, In
1821, Loren recently an
officer under General Jackson, is
surprised by the appearance, in
ancient Spanish costume, of two
men and a w beauty
enchants the
nee ride the
Garde,
Ar-
two
with him and
ir:
de
dea
jot, died in my
last breath he
Bolivar!" If a lesson is
arms
sind with his
*Viva
sired
cried
de.
“Carraca!™ Adolfo's face
for
animal
went pale,
sind his manner,
that of a hunted
an instant, wis
Carraca, indeed, Senor: the
of murder in Venezuela Is nearly
i
reign
over,
though ambition speaks another lan.
guage, Spain has the
wealth of Dolivar, a passing thing in
any case, but ud
“A rebel!”
we will hang
dest ros ed
-ah
Adolfo
him in
this spirit
cried “Some
the Plaza
Jacinto.” »
Bolivar now for
and failed. You
deal with and
pain has sought
t ten years, Senor,
will have to
when you
“YWhen we shoot you, Senor Ameri
cano, tomorrow morning in the plaza
before the great enthedral, Simon wil
lose another patriot, is It not so?”
“My father's arm Is long,” I said:
“he has powerful friends in America,
chief among them being Gen. Andrew
Jackson, who will be our
next President, I have sent a letter
to my father, and if aught befalls
ey
Yn
“Spain In Ven
to lose the friendship of
Staten”
Adolfo grinned,
no friendships by
tionist, gp man caught in the act of
mutiny, a half-mad French sallor
nansed Timoleon Sourdez, who brought
a so upon the Church, We
know nothing of Loren Garde, son of
the wealthy Senor Garde of New Or.
jeans, friend of Andrew Jackson”
I was silent for the simple reason
that I had nothing to say, for 1 knew
that his stand might seem a logleal
thing.
Jolivar,
i
doubtless
United
“We stand
executing a
to lose
revola.
Tilege
“For what purpose did the Senorita
Lamartina visit you today?"
“She came to offer me an Invitation
to her wedding.”
He snarled. “Does the droll
cano imagine that the noble
Spain might love him?"
“One never knows"
“Yét, loving
wed
"A
me?
yourself might
Ameri
lady of
vou, why should
she
question, Colonel, which von
answer."
Adolfo’s laughter rang through the
house. *“Assuredly :
you She must
she does not love
her sport-—and
the lovelorn Americano offers himself.
You do noi
He
with heavy fin
have
understand women,
Senor?” combed his blacl
“The poor
upon his sleeve”
zers
carries his heart
“Yet it
bring her to the altar
red lired a porgeous
lie to
with you"
BWOr oftly,
I
f
conceit: “when the Senor |
tried to stab a stupid ladrone
y of New Orleans he lost
"
love
“Carraca !” he cried, reachi
weapon as I swung upon hi
bitterness that was in
my
¢ = ’
mae
a
Si , oo
Ce stn Ei y
He Cried Out in Pain at My Blow,
cotunle
loose,
floor, and
flow of I rof
wid, “This d
d the fulness of a lifetis
‘8s sun will find me rea
said
fo he 1
thie Kiy,
There Is
You may
on conditions.”
waited,
S00
#weet to you ¥
to win freedom,
leave Caracas
ira
elee,
That
and La
“What
“That
Senorita
tonight,
tomorrow, and
Senor? I am waiting”
tell mie, now, where
Lamartina ia"
of Gd,
'
you the
“Name
mean
“The
clever o
Senor! Do you
Americano is doubtless a
tor: if he will tell
I may find the Senorita he will see the
way made open for a safe Journey to
New Orleans”
me where
It eame to me then that
tated to bring about my execution and
hoped thereafter to win the Senorita’s
love,
Adolfo hesi.
BHR BRR NR
Annapolis Royal, N. 8, founded by
Champlain in 1004 under the name of
“Port Royal,” Is linked modern
civilization the rigin
of the fact, If not the ter poe,”
During the long hard wis
Champlain and his garrison had to
face, they made friends w the In:
dian chiefs of the region and
brated nightly dinners convivial
fashion with them.
Fach member of Champlain's
took bis turn as master of the
with
throuch there
ters that
ith
y
cele
stall
cere
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longest Hie cycle of any Insect, with
the seventeen-year locusts holding the
record.
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“You and she must hase had
understanding,” he continued,
within the hour after had
turned to the home of the Set
Mendoza, we discovered that she had
disappeared though
some mythieal alr-god had carried her
nawiny Polito, cutly he
cause of her v
some
“for,
re.
ora
she
as completely as
agitated
anishment, alded
but to if We
the hour w
success, If
search, no ava
for
would
combed cit
you vin y
tell us whither
the
will
If not
acing
I knew
word
dom vou
morrow
squad ,
Adolfo wonld
had
him informat
nevet
bev i able
io keep vou advil
even
on the
toes of
her plan BUrei) You cannot
1
“Very
you for
thant we
morrow
and bent our st
pile of went
geon-like ch
ses ff #43 73 £5
unfortunates
CHAPTER VI
A Silver Night
ed a
I
#t m
his
voles
twisted
a shrill
rasping vo
iy ne nf gr
low
fn
Handx were Iai
dragging me fre
alone” |
“No, Senor
“Manuel!”
“Come
I leaped to my
auickiy.”
feet
come He ea
my arm and led
“But we m
He
they
me away
ist help them.”
“Not
is the
aid.”
Inughed shortly.
need no help:
at all,
soldiers
who will be eryving
We ran swiftly for three minutes and
in a darkened
Manuel opened a packsg
been
stopped where
gecreted under a
“I'et it
minuies you must
uniform
in two
in in his ma
OO BE
on i
bie
eRiy's service.”
CONTINUED)
SHE NR
“whoopee ™
monial being harged
the preparation and the service
of the dinner with its ac }
wines, songs
}
bertod, the
dances, Old
but
wns nlwavs an
easts, for
fine
and
aged active
honored
he fuarnighed
pieve of fam or
tiken In the wilds of Nova Secotls
which
many a fixh
Valuable Crystal Ball
The crystal ball in
soum in
diameter and 100
pounds, It i= valoed at $250,008 The
Block of rock erystal from which the
hall was formed was found in Burma,
It {8 wald to have weighed more than
half a ton in the rough,
a. od
he National sig
i nearly
New
RICE fixing
stabilization
finally been aban-
doned by the federal
farm board, as a great
many c¢itizens believe
it should
long a
liams,
of
by
has
been
Wil-
ve
Carl Wiliams.
&DY circumsta
“is valuabl!
or seasonal
has dis
American people hav
Pi
sur
covered, and
continued purchases
continued production
for the ag
bot
the
to witht
wins and
for the southern plant
new,
if
the crop
similiar legislation,
ter up to Texas, producer of onethi
of the cotton and the
sentiment in that state appeared to be
ngainst Governor Long's scheme. For
one thing, the cotton raisers of the
South have neither the equipment nor
the experience to raise any other
Crops,
nation's crop
ENEVA
swarming
ginteamen and
feal scientists during
he week, Economie
experts from twenty-
£ix nations assembled
there as a co-ordinat-
ing commitiee of the
commission for Eu-
ropean union, and the
council of the League
of Nations met on
Tuesday; while the
members of the League assembly were
gathering for the sessions of that body
beginning September 7. Most of the
top notchers were in the Swiss city
ind not the least nor the idlest
Maxim Litvinov, that wily and skillfol
statesman ig the comnts
sar for foreign affairs,
The fire
{to submit to the co-ordinating commits
tee a proposal wil nonag.
gression pact. Andre Francois-Poncet
French delegate, tried to have the plan
referted to the economie committee of
the league where it could be allowed
io die, for France likes better the idea
of separate non-aggression treaties,
Litvinov, vigorously seconded by Does
tor Curtlus and Digo Grandi, Hallan
foreign minister, insisted upon imme
diate action. The committee finally
agreed to pass the plan over to a sub.
was
with
polit-
M. L. Litvinov.
was
who Koviet
thing this Nuss
in did was
for a gone
i
committee which was to edit it and re-
po*t back to the co-ordinating commit~
feo,
Senator Heng! Beranger of France,
former ambassador to Washington,
told the co ordinatiag committee that
the policy eof United
te. “American
world [al
said,
isolation
obsol
Stntes wi
tanglement in
in
‘Euro;
provinelalism
e a thing of the past for «
well as
“Hecent
vo di
Norman.
the
13
3
his pres
Mr,
the
tern Norman was reported
be on verge of an nervous and
physical breakdown at the time of the
and he hurried over to Canada
vacation, leaving
out of the mess as
could It was said, too, that
leaving he tried to induce Mr. Morgan
to place the entire loan in America,
shutting out France, and that this was
reported to the French,
nig nssocinies
they
hefore
best
PRESIDENZ MACHADO formally
announced that the Cuban revolt
had been entirely suppressed, and then
vent fishing. The final blow to the
rebel enuse came with the surrender
of Col, Roberto Mendez Penate, last of
its biz militant and the de
parture for New York of Dr. Miguel
Mariano Gomez, former mayor of Ha.
vana., Nacionalista were
ghocked when word of Senor Gomez’
departure became known, He had
been believed to be the only man with
sufficient support to keep up the revo
lutionary spirit.
leaders,
circies
a T. HINES, administrator of
veterans’ affairs, addressing the an.
nual. convention of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars in Kansas City, asked
on behalf of the government that all
veterans’ organizatione refrain. from
asking congress for further legislation
in their behalf until they have studied
and determined the aliimate cost of
relief nets on the law bonks He
noted that the povernmenmi’'s annual
outlay for henefits to former service
men amount to about SH00.00LO00 and
what he termed the “inevit.
able trend” of all forms of veterans
fild toward Increase above the initial
expectations,
In the meantime, he said, the prin
cipal need of veterans Is more jobs
He explained the bureau was working
stressed
with the Labor department toward this
end,
OSEPH PAUL-BOXCOUR, chairman
of the foreign affairs commiitee of
the French chamber of deputies, gave
out in Paris a statement in which he
renewed the proposal that the nations
of the world place their armed forces
under control of the League of Na.
tions, and predicted that France would
lead the way in the disarmament con.
ference in 1082. This statement was
declared by the French foreign office
to represent the permanent view of
the government. In Washingion offi.
cial quarters it was received eoldly, be
ing regarded as a move on the part
ef France to determine the attitude of
the new national British ministry
the old subject of pooling of
ments,
on
arma-
incidents
the
tional
Jleveland,
races
When
compuina
the
handicap
Phoebe Omlie. (ions of the race offi-
were ended It was found that
Phoebe also had won the open sween
stakes, besting all the men contestants,
Winners in the men’s di worse
D. C. Warren, first: Lee Brusse seco
ond ;: Eldon Cessa, third, and Marcellus
King, fourth.
After a good night's sleep, the ener
getic Mrs. Omilie into her
plane again and won two closed course
speed dashes,
clals
ision
Jumped
REWSE of six ships of the Chilean
navy mutinied at and
held thelr officers prisoners demand
ing that the government cancel reduc
tions in pay that had been announced
A group of noncommissioned officers
were directing the activities of the
fleet at latest reports and they sent
the ultimatum of the men to Santiago.
The cabinet met in the eapiial and
decided that the mutiny should be pot
down with vigor, believing the entire
nation would support such a course.
The vessels concerned, representing a
Iarge part of the nation’s navy, were
the baitleship Almirante La Torre. the
eruleer O'Hizging and the desirovers
Orelela, Serrano, Alden nod Hyon
Coguimbo
snsin—
NCS TAN] and 1]
i finally settled thal
t
aver the “nthnl
organizations are allowed to FY Pr
their bint are restricted to
purely religions endeavors, They are
barred from sports and athiletios nod
are not to intrude Inte the syndical
or trades union fields,
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