PA ———
THE VALE
OF ARAGON
‘By
FRED McLAUGHLIN
v
Author of
“The Blade of Picardy”
Copyright by Bobbas-Merrlll Ce.
: (WNU Service.)
CHAPTER IX
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The Spirit of the Dead
Of the six hundred and fifty men
who had gone blithely to the in-
vestment of the town of Maracay,
scarce four hundred remained; starve-
lings trapped in a strip of jungle that
lies between the Valencia range and
the sea: blocked on the north by the
sea itself, on the south by an army
patrolling the road that followed the
erest of the range, and menaced In
the rear by an ever approaching body
of well-accoutered and well-fed Span-
ish troops. Adolfo de Fuentes him-
self led them, and it must have af.
forded Ixm a deal of joy.
“If we had Bollvar—"
ventured,
Doctor Lindsay laughed.
Irish Venezuelan patriot, who comes
from Killarney, and who, therefore,
mut believe In fairies, imagine that
General Bolivar might free us from
this impasse?”
“Sure,” sald the
word from Simon Bolivar men will
spring, full-armed, like spirits out of
the earth. But we haven't the spirit
of Bolivar with us now: instead, we
have a 8p Ivfish who gits and
broods over his blunders, knowing that
we face starvation or capture by the
Paerto ( garrison when the
army behind us shall have pushed us
westward to the mouth of this funnel
of jungle that holds us helpless.”
Ten days before this a vastly Bu-
perior fore ¢ had pushed us out of
Maracay. Fighting every foot of the
way we "had been beaten back, ever
back. Eastward and northward we
had gone, contending desperately,
hopelessly, yet never giving up; each
night finding us farther into the Span-
ish area, weaker, less able to endure,
with a morale that gave way with
the slow passage of time.
Jetween Colonel Pini and myself an
armed truce existed. Whether, by
some miraculous turn of good fortune,
we won free, or whether the malevo-
lent jungle or the Spaniards claimed
ug, the result to me would be the
for the friendship of a few
aides of Bolivar might never
me in a court, because I was
and could not offer a defense,
Yet no apprehension of what Pini
might do to me could prevail against
my happiness, because I had seen the
Senorita again, had caught the tender
of her voice, had won for-
80
Monahan
“Does our
Irishman; “at a
ineless jel
‘abello
same
trusted
save
guilty
cadences
giveness,
As the days went by the shoulders
of our soldiers drooped, the light went
out of their eyes, and the flesh went
off their bodies, for food we had al-
most none: and the desperate heat of
the overwhelming jungle sickened
them, and the and silence of
this dread desolation entered their
souls, yet that vital spark still burned
within them,
We came, one day, to a great rent
in the close-packed trees and the in-
terlacing vines of our forest prison.
It was such a path as some monster
dragon of the deep, emerging from the
sea, might have made in its passage
through the jungle: yet we knew that
no dragon of the deep existed, knew
that no animal might have laid these
mighty trees flat and pushed others
out of its path.
I recalled the day of the storm, and
the wreck of the Santa Lucrecia, and
the dark bulk that had passel in the
as [ fought for my life with
the waves.
I remembered that the tremendous
thrust of the wind had lifted the ocean
into the maze of woods, and had de-
posited me in a tree. The Santa Lu.
crecia, then, had freed herself from
the clutches of the reef and, riding
the elevated waters of the tidal wave,
had driven over the flat floor of the
jungle—which lay only a few feet
above the level of the sea—and had
found at last a grave in the fores*
whence it had come, And the Santa
Lucrecia, 1 remembered, had a eargo
of arms and ammunition and food!
“Colonel Pinl” sald I, In the long
silence that had held us, “may not
this small army of ours—given food
and arms and powder and ball—win
through the lines of Spain? If I AN
them with food, and put weapons and
ammunition into their hands—7"
\ “Are you mad?" he cried,
“If 1 do these things, my colonel,
may 1 ask that this court will be for.
got, that my wounded arm and the
broken door at Maracay~and the
Senorita —7"
“Lindsay and Captain Monahan may
witness,” sald Pini, and he smiled, “my
promise to forget Maracay if you ob-
tain the manna for these starving sol
diers.”
“1 will tell you, then, my colonel,
that this path marks the first and last
iand passage of the Banta Lucrecia,
and If we only follow it we will come
upon a store sufficient for an army.”
* * »- » . » ».
For three days we ate and rested
and caroused, unmindful of the forces
gloom
gloom
ship against an army. And the lean
Indians filled out like dogs at a feast,
and eyes brightened, and shoulders
squared, and patriotism flamed again,
and strength came back to us—
strength of body and mind and spirit
—and the will to win was ours, and a
desire to pit against the enemy this
renewed vigor that belonged to us,
We put away one more gargantuan
meal—a breakfast—and took, each,
two pistols and a musket and sufi
clent ammunition to carry us through
a score of skirmishes, and then we
set the torch to the good ship Santa
Lucrecia in & dozen different places,
We turned our faces southward
toward the barrier range, where an
enemy awaited us, and with songs
of victory on our lips, we drove on-
ward up the timbered slopes while
flames spurted skyward from the
doomed ship and, spreading into the
jungle, fashioned a raging hell be-
hind us.
We emerged froin the cover of the
forest and fell upon the thin line that
held the heights, They must have
considered us shrieking demons from
the fiery pit that we had left, for they
broke, crying out in the fulness of
thelr terrors, and cast their weapons
away as useless against the imps who
had just escaped from the blazing
tumult that devoured the jungle,
On we went, ever southward,
the forested Incline that led toward
the vast basin of Lake Valencia. East
of Valencia we swept across the fields
down
Ayzme
“Lindsay and Captain Monahan May
Witness,” Said Pini, Still Smiling.
that were checkered with green and
brown. Free, at last, of enemy inter-
ference, we skirted the lake and bent
our steps toward the town of Tina-
quillo, near which, we knew, would
lie the lines of Bolivar, and where, be-
fore the sun had set, we fell, exhaust.
ed but happy the arms of our
own,
Verily spirit
armed the living!
- . ® . - ® *
, into
of the dead had
the
Storm-clouds were gathering in the
south and thunde umbled
crest of the Carabobo hills
while stood at attent waiting
for General Bolivar to pin upon the
jacket of Colonel Pini the coveted Or-
der of Lit He complimented
the colonel upon the courage of him-
self and his in breaking through
the Spanish lines and taking the town
of Maracay, and he offered mild apol-
ogy that Paez and Plaza had failed
to help him hold it,
Francisco touched my elbow. “Do
not your fingers ache, Garde, do not
those capable hands of yours itch to
take hold of Pini's throat?”
“Why should they” said I. for 1
knew that Monahan had talked; “did
not Pini give me my life?”
“For the Order of Liberators™ he
sald, smiling, "a cherished decora-
tion and to think that a man
like Pini should have got it.”
“As far as I am concerned,
cisco, our colonel may have it; surely
it will give him little Joy." Now [I re.
member the look in Pini's eves when
they had rested on the Senorita, and
a flame or rage scorched me. 1 won
dered then if I would not yet have to
deal with the colonel, and I hoped in
my heart that I would.
“Has there been any news of the
Senorita, or of Polite? Francisco's
finger, 1 knew, was upon the pulse of
Venezuela,
“None, except that Adolfo is now In
command of the Valencia garrison,
and we may assume that the Senorita
and her brother are there also” :
“It is good news, my friend, for
Valencia is scarce twenty miles from
here”
“With only a Spanish army of seven
or eight thousand soldiers barring our
and e ast,
along the
we ion,
werators
nen
Fran-
TI
way. A simple thing indeed” he
Jeered, “for La Torre and Morales,
with all the avallable forces of Spain,
await us on the plains of Carabobo.”
“Then we meet them there, Fran
cisco?”
“Aye
think IL:
he did
He thought a moment. “I
Torre made a mistake when
not dispute our passage at
Buena Vista; he lost an advantage
there. I—I eannot help believing,
Garde, that at Carabobo tomorrow, we
stand-—or fall, The general stakes all
on this last battle; we win an empire
-Or we are for ever slaves."
CHAPTER X
The Battle of Carabobo
I think Bolivar as a toastmaster was
the peer of any man I have ever seen,
It was his wont to bring his officers
together once & week in what he
termed a dinner, but which usually de-
veloped Into a well-ordered carouse,
for wine and rum and other spirituous
liquors were cheap and plentiful in
Venezuela, Bolivar, demanding only
obedience of his men, took no note of
their morals: wherein, I think, lay one
of the secrets of his amazing hold
upon his soldiers,
In the spacious hall of the adobe
house that was his headquarters we
were gathered on the night before the
battle of Carabobo, Jesides Bollvar
there wns the wise and suave Marino,
chief of mag Urdaneta, whom
general ealled Refael, a faithful fol-
lower of Bolivar, who, for many
after the death of the
served his country with brill
distinction: Paez, chief of the |
Plaza, Colonel Pini,
because of his questionably won
oration; Colonel Mackintosh,
Ferrier, who, on the morrow, was des.
tined to find the fatal bullet; Captain
Minchin, another Briton who fell Epol
the fleld of ¢ : Moore and Li
say, Engl Captain Scott,
Monahan, Manuel,
and -nAMmes
with in Venezuela
had not
wrecked the
the
Liberator,
ance and
llaneros,
Cedeno,
dec.
‘arabobo:
ish
the sw arthy
others
me die 08 ;
to
Santini,
survived the ste
Santa Lucrecia,
cisco
dier,
rin that
Under surface of laughter and
badinage lay the tension of over
wrought nerves, for we felt the por.
tent of the morrow’s battle,
Men were called upon for speeches
or toasts. Colonel Pinl, whose blood
shot eyes showed the effect of the
vast amount of wine that he had con
sumed, found unsteady feet and,
swaying beyond the bounds of safe
equilibrium, related the fragment of
an amour, the questionable wit of
which might have lifted langhter only
of wine-bemused minds, Manuel
gave an account of my unsuccessful
attempt in New Orleans to |
San Isidro, and my equally unsuccess.
ful effort to vanquish four men, which
drew the attention of the gathered
officers In my direction.
I had never made a speech, nor
offered a but when Bolivar, en-
couraging eyes upon me, said, “Should
we not get the volce of the United
States, a great nation after whi ch we
hope to pattern our own? | came
slowly to my feet, my mind a blank,
and tremors shaking me Leaning
azainst the table for support, I stared
antly at the half-filled wine glass
in my right hand, and Pini, noting my
embarrassment, laughed harshly,
“A * he cried gaily, “or If
the Americano's mind refuses to func.
tion, a toast, A toast to the
Senorita —t1o the lovely Lamartina I
A silence fell upon us—a grim fore
boding silence—for many of these men
knew of my mad worship of the Seno
rita. The look that I bent dpon Pint
had nothing of friendship in it; It was
more like a
drunk I knew
his lips gained nothing for a lady was
a thing of equal certainty to me,
Looking across the narrow table
into the leering eyes of my tormentor,
{ felt the surge of an overwhelming
fury, and before I had taken time to
eonsider my act, or the consequences
of it. I had cast the contents of m;
wine glass into his face. Then, while
Pini spluttered in anger, I turned to
Bolivar,
“That, my general,
the United Siates, where men Lre
wont to look with reverence upon a
woman, The amours of Colonel
Pini"
Pinl came to his feet, his face flam-
ing, eyes gleaming. “1 will have his
life for that, I'll run him through, I'll
drive a sword-—!"
1 bowed, while Bolivar—the furrows
in his high forehead deepening and
his heavy eyebrows drawing together
owt
nitate
toast,
Vit
speech,
challenge.
“1 think,” said Francisco coldly,
“that Colonel Pini forgets the wounded
arm of Major Garde;
healed, and the major, therefore, would
be at a serious disadvantage”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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The Garfield monument occupies the
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designers would convey
thelr fall winter col-
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The
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woman “loves to
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brought
they make instant
appeal to modern minded.
The ured are five "rea
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hat is assured for
Dark green vel
first stunning chapeau
green in every de rom vivid
nent in the
ther colors
and winter are
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ine then a call for brig
» importance of black Is out-
feeling.
the most
models pict
call for the velvet
the coming mon
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for
to deepest
present
spotlighted
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fons the
Aree,
tones, are
style plenty
for fall
wine si«
promi
browns
black velvet hat hich
throughout |
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the trail
as popular
some of the newest
extremely plain bows and
gelf-velvet, or velvet In a
being used In sim
ple fashion e spirals trim many
a hat. and Paris wodistes are exploit.
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A wise awl-head of beige and green
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Grooping
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color,
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There are still a lot of
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That's the only way to refer to the
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going back into Roman mythology a
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but
weight goddess, waa as much admired
in her way as the slimmer Venus.
And for such ladies as are best de
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Popular Again This Fall
Coats in astrakhan or ponyskin have
Short
fit the figure snugly, usually with a
belt, made of closely-cut fur. Lelong
stripes of white giving it a pattern.
The collar rises at the back of the
is a'belt of brown calfskin,
Worth makes a smart sports jacket
of leopard fur in double-breasted eton
cut with revers and cuffs of golden
brown flannel jersey. It has short
sleeves and is worn with long gloves
of golden-brown glace kid, the newest
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Yteb is making novel little fur pel-
lerincs with frocks or slitn coats, The
back is cut in an upward curve to sug.
geat a yoke, so the pleces which fall
over the arms give a broad-shouldered
effect and the front is Ouished with a
scarf.
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tiny feathers blinks its beady
servers as it
he little cap-shaped green vel
own ut the top to the right
g OO
ing adorns
side of t
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in the i
of this you
lustration,
thful model comes down low
the ear in chie beret
of Madoux' smart
over
It is
hots,
it's trimmed with a pink
cunning
the left
shapes
one est fall
rose,
in the picture.
as th
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from what we hy
for
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wavelets and even 8
over the forehead, If you please
the hat must be worn “just
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“bow-catcher”
"
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to get the proper effect over
one eye, exposing
side.
velvet,
of paradise plumage,
the handsome profile hat to the
which Is voguish for the smart
Black
right,
sienne,
women osprey ap
trimming by
taboo, and so milliners
of the walter are using
trich and vulture
io-, pheasant tails
here pictured
There's
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f
circle, for it
bird of parad
order of
on thi
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feathers,
after the
8 are the
likewise
manner
a le o be said in regard
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is hizhiy typical of
trend. It is of
The ruche at the side
velvet, thus adding a
to ittle
the
the milli
brown velvet
is nile green
dramatic note of color,
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Jacket Dress for Fall
Eggshell takes the place of white in
this lighter-top jacket dress of light
weight wool. The leopard-dyed lapin
trimiuing Is noteworthy.
Skirt Blouse
A practical investment for the older
schoolgirl consists of a dark wool skirt
of brown, dark green or Spanish tile,
with two practical blouses, one of
white jersey and the sther of beige
light-weight wool. Both blouses are
made in overblouse style, with narrow
hets=
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Flying for the first time over the
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Much to Unlearn
What's the use Yop are content
in the belief that you know
thing and then you get educated and
discover you don't know anything.
Los Angeles Times,
every-
Direct
Secretary—What did you wish
speak to Mr, Smith about?
Wife (of Mr. Smith)—You.
to
make
is to sad
Don’t seek friends
and the way to do that
yourself to some degree,
‘em;
rifice
we see people we considered youngsters
catching up to us in business. This feeling
usually goes hand in hand with irritability.
Tiredness and lack of “pep” are also
symptoms.
of yourae You will probably find that the
i yout. You need a chan
Hd fort ord to go away, take
asi * to you, and
will greet every morning with a smile.
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