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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY o A PENNSYLVANIA
i?K Samuel W. Pennypacker
STs&Y-ft fbnnsvfvctmas 'Most- Zealous
Wm$ki&& cor..h, lit. i., rbu. . r comMn. " EnerAoiic Go
T lncn who influenced Governor Pcnnyji
imndfatlicr, Joseph Whitaker, at the left,
grandiau whItnkerf hla moth(.r.8 broth(
packer were his
and Joseph It.
brother
CHAPTER II (Continued)
ttERY ear'y in llfo I kegan to winder. In Rhoadcs's woods along
Vthe French Creek could bo found in the spring the hepatica, tho
memone, the spring beauty, the saxifrage, the American spicewood,
He sassafras nnd the slippery elm. At Black Rock, a bluff along tho
Schuylkill, more than n mile away, grew tho columbine. Alone I
strayed through the woods getting a quiet and unanalyzcd enjoyment
from the beauties of form and color, while learning to seek the tasto
of the spice and the sassafras and to avoid that of the smartweed
ud the Indian turnip. In the fall, rising at daybreak, I always
Mthercd, huncu, urieu aim pui. away m me ion u store ot walnuts
,.j sUCh butternuts and shcllbarks as could be secured. When my
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brother, Henry C, was three years old and I was seven he
hd a dangerous attack of fever and I did harm by dropping a bag
. walnuts which I was lugging up the steps from the garret to the
loft. I learned to skate on a pair of skates which cost fifty cents at
Samuel Moses's store, and made great progress forward and back
v,rd and in cutting rings on the ice by throwing one foot across the
ether. Thereupon a generous undo, Joseph R. Whitaker, gave me a
handsome and expensive pair of skates bought in Philadelphia, but
(he metal was soft. I could not discard them, and I never skated
io well afterward. We made sleds with the staves of rejected bar
rels and when a painted sled came from the city with iron on tho
twiners it was a wonder and I waB envied by all of the boys. In tho
summer we went to the "Gut," which ran between an island in tho
French Creek and the mainland, to swim. It was the fashion to go
barefoot, and the boy who did not was rather despised as a weak
ling. I hid my shoes and stockings behind an oak tree and followed
the flock. Along the bank of tho creek it went well enough with a
bttle care, but when we crossed a field of wheat stubble there was a
lioy in trouble. On an occasion when playing "tickly benders" on the
thin ice of the canal the ice gave way and I fell into the water and
vas wetted from head to foot. Scrambling out, I went to the fur
naces of the Chester County Iron Works, shipped off my clothes and
dinced about naked in front of a furnace until they were dried. At
home the mishap was not reported.
An Ailing Child
When very young I was frequently ill and had sores around my
mouth. I w'as dosed with flowers of sulphur mixed in molasses, with
Husband's sulphate of magnesia, recommended as tasteless, with
jalap mixed in currant jelly to make it palatable, and occasionally
with castor oil. With the measles I had a high fever and in one night
as bled three times, tho cicatrixes remaining upon my arniB.
Common sense is as important a quality in nursing as in all
the other affairs of life. If some one of my attendants had been
wise enough to remove the parti-colored counterpane from the bed
It would have meant much. These colors coiled up into serpents.
How important is the soothing voice of a motherly woman! Aunt
Ann, the wife of my uncle, James Pennypacker, herself a Penny
packer and one of the sweetest souled women who ever lived, gath
ered me into her arms, crooned over me with soft song, succeeded
in putting me to sleep and perhaps saved me. When I was eight
years of age my brother John died at tho age of eleven. He was an
Intelligent boy who had read much and was doing mensuration and
bookkeeping. Tho event hnd one permanent effect upon me. I had
been in the habit of using profanity and then determined to cease. I
grew accustomed to expressing feeling without expletives nnd have
never sinco upon any occnslon given utterance to them. About tho
same time, during a time of excitement over tho temperance ques
tion, 1 signed perhaps twenty pledges, carried around by tho chil
dren, never to use nny intoxicating liquor. This, too, became a habit
unbroken until I was thirty-fivo years of age, but which finally
yielded to the dinner customs of the city.
While not robust, I must have been endowed with vitality,
because energy was always exhibited nnd the obstacles to which
many children yielded were not sufficient to deter me from doing
what I had undertaken. I planted the peas in the garden and my
mother depended upon me to gather the pods. My father brought
to me from my Grandfather Pennypacker u cabbage plant and 1
watered it every night. He brought me later four chickens and at
the end of tho second summer I had more than 1200, let no nest
escape mo and gathered the eggs. I found my way to n seemingly
inaccessible tree, which bore black cherries, by getting on to the
rail of a pale fence, clambering into another tree, one of whose limbs
crossed over from the tree I wanted to reach, and then by following
this natural bridge.
At School
When what was called the hen fever, a wild speculation in fancy
chickens, spread over the country, an uncle, George W. Whitaker,
paid $20 for a dozen Shanghai eggs, and not knowing what to do
with them gave them to me. Four chickens were hatched. As they
grew their enormous size and feathered legs were an astonishing
thing. As the fever abated I bold the eggs for $'J a dozen.
Every fruit tree and nut tree within a mile, with its comparative
merit and the way to reach its store, was known to me. I raised
broods of white rabbits.
The bchool kept by Mrs. Hcilig had only a brief existence and I
was then sent to the public school in a stone building since converted
vcrnor
into dwellings upon Tunnel Mill. Among the teachers were John
Sherman, who made of me a pet, and a man named Knglish. It was
a rough experience. Tho vacant lot adjoining was called "Bullys'
Acre" and on it the toughs of the town settled their personal con
troversies. Tho pupils were tho sons of the Irish workmen, who pud
dled iron and drove carts about the mills, and they were divided into
two factions the "Clinkers" and the "Bleeders," who fought pitched
battles with each other with stones and other missiles. I belonged to
the "Bleeders." I fought three fist fights with a stock boy named
John Bradley, and I think hnd rather the worst of it, though offi
cially the battles were decided to be a draw. Years later I gave him
n license to sell liquor in Philadelphia. More than one of thcbe boys
in later life went to prison and others have won Mibstantinl suc
cesses. Among them were Mickey McQuadc, Johnnie McCullogh,
Barney Green, the Sullivans and tho Mulllns, among whom the last
two families reached respectable social standing. Green had a
pretty sister, Annie, with a taste for vocal music, who became a
teacher and married in Chicago. Tunnel Mill was naturally the
prettiest part of tho town, being on the high ground between the
French Creek and the Schuylkill River, When the village was small
a butcher from near Kimbcrton named John Vandcrslicc bought it
as a farm. Mo was hard, coarse and selfish. On it he built littlo
houses and sold them to the lnborcrs for such cash as they could pay,
taking mortgages for the balance. Every few years the iron trade
became dull and the mills closed. Then he foreclosed the mortgages.
When trade revived he sold the houses to another set of Irishmen.
By repeating the process he grew rich. Mis boys went barefoot and
worked at day labor. His wife and daughters did the washing. Me
made a trip around tho world and left them nt home. Ho paid the
expense of printing a boo' of his travels, mainly the names of the
towns and the dates when he reached them. Before he died, not
trusting the regard of those around him. he bought a monument and
had it properly inscribed and erected in the cemetery. It was among
the sons of the tenants and purchasers from John Vandorslice that I
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Governor Penny packer's mother, Anna Maria Whitaker
Pennypacker. This is a reproduction of the sketch made by
Williams, of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
for a large painting.
was now thrown into daily companionship. It did me no harm, but
on the contrary was beneficial. Every child is helped by playing for
a part of the day in the mud. Every man ought to increase his
experiences and grow to the extent of his capabilities, but ho ought
ever to have his feet upon the ground. Thoae people on Tunnel Hill
had great regard for my father, and they have always been staunch
friends of mine. When I was a candidate for the Governorship
Tunnel Hill, for the first time in its history, voted with the Republic
ans, and an old Irish woman living there still keeps the cradle in
which I was rocked.
At this school I learned all of the rules of Smiti t Grammar
and I find firmly imbedded in my mind the propositions t-'iat "a noun
is the name of a person, place or thing," "a pronoun is a word used
instead of a noun," "prepositions govern the objective case," "active
transitive verbs govern the objective case" and the like. I committed
to memory the geography of the world from Mitchell's Atlas and
could not be overcome by Cape Severo Vostochnoi (now called Cape
Chelyuskin, the northernmost point of Siberia) or the Yang-tse-Kiang
River. On one occasion, when there was an examination and
none of the boys except myself appeared, I gave, before an audience,
the bounds of each of the United States, named its capital, two prin
cipal towns and tvo principal rivers. I learned to cipher in Vogdes'fl
arithmetic as far as cube root. Among the brightest boys in the
school wore John M. Mullen, who afterward studied medicine, and
Andrew J. Sullivan, a hunchback. Among the pupils about this
period were some Indian boys and girls. A tribe came from Canada
and encamped along the Pickering Creek in Schuylkill township, and
there the boys, who were very skillful, shot with bows and arrows
at a dime fixed in a pole and the girls made very neat baskets. When
the weather grew too cold for tent life they rented a house on 'h nnel
Hill and both boys and girls came to school.
At ten years of age I went to school in the PresbyteVian Church
on the south side of the creek to a Miss Agnes McClure, who after
ward married a clerk named Hughes in the office of the iron com
pany and became the mother of Dr. William E. Hughes, of Philaaol
jhia, and to a Mrs. Wallace, and there made a beginning In tha studv
of French.
(CONTINUED TOMOKROW)
RAINBOW'S END
By REX BEACH
Author of "The Spoilers," "The tf5
Barrier," "Heart of the Sunset"
A novel of love, hidden treasure and rebellion in beautiful, mys
terious Cuba during the exciting days of the revolt against Spain.
Cop right, 101T, l!nrpr Bros.
CHAPTER XV (Continued)
pAMOS led his three charges to the rall-
Av :oad fctutlon nnd Into tho rear coach
t a south-bound train, where tho other
members ot the expedition had already
found seats. As thev climbed aboard, a
$'' &eret Servlco agent essayed to follow
them, but he was stopped by a brakeman,
who said:
"Sou can't tide In here: this Is a special
tar. Some sort of a picnic party. They're
"wops' or Greeks or Bomethlnc."
All.-.. Aft An, I. .ah ..ln ntt.mntAll tft tn.
'JRsvad the privacy of that rear coach after
ra till train had gotten under way wore also
denied. Meanwhile tho filibusters cast
'I reitralnt aside and for tho flrbt time In-
?' ttrmlngled freely.
.
The Start
Evening came, then night, and still tho
party was Jerked along at tho tall of the.
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'iirain wunout a Hint as to us aeauiimiuu.
, About midnight thoso who were not doz
; Ins noted that they had stopped at an
obscure plno-wooda junction, and that
p when the train got under way onco more
" ithelr own car did not move. Tho ruse
was now apparent; owing to tho lateness
of the hour It was doubtful If any ono
I In the forward coaches was awaro that
1 the train was lighter by ono car.
i, There was a brief delay; then a loco
: motive crept out from a siding, coupled
up to the landing car, and drew It off
i" ,"Pon another track. Soon the "excursion
ipftrty" was being rushed swiftly toward
'nt tie coast, Borne twenty miles away.
;-' Major Ramos came down the aisle
'Slaughlng and spoke to his American pto-
$ts.
V, ". what do you think of that, en;
"Imagine tho feelings of those good dep.
$.Uty marshals when they wake up. I bet
V writ rub their eyes."
,f Miss Evans bounced excitedly In her
j .wat; she clapped her hands.
k "Yntl mnut ImuA rlanrin In lllch
Places," O'Uellly grinned, and the Cuban
agreed.
"Yts, I Durnoselv drew attention to ua
; In Charleston whllo our ship was load-
j lr. Bhe'a ready and waiting for ua
ji now; and by daylight we ought to be
,V kafely out to sea. Meanwhile the Daunt-
k less has weighed anchor and la ateamlng
rt Wrth; followed, I hope, by all the revnuo
liS """ iiereuuouis.
At Sea
m n was the darkest time Cf the night
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t a bridge spanning one of the deep
OUthern rivers. In tlin stream below.
M1ly outlined In tha gloom, lay the' Fair
l,"y, a umall tramp steamer; her crew
, up and awake. The 'new arrlvuls
.hurried aboard, and within a halt
With daylight, caution gave way to
luute, and the rusty little tramp began
to dilvo forward for all bIio was worth.
She cleared tho threo-mlle limit tafcly
and then turned south. Not a craft was
In sight; not a tmudge of smoko discol
ored the skyline.
It had been a trying night for the fili
busters, and when the low coaatllno was
dropped ahtern they began to think ot
Hleep. Brcukfast of a twt was berved
on deck, after which those favored ones
who had berths sought them, while their
less fortunate companions stretchd out
wherever they could find a place.
Cuba
Johnnie O'ltcllly was not one of thos8
who slept; he was too much elated. Al
ready ho cou(d Bee the hills of Cuba doz
ing behind their purplo veils; In fancy
he felt the fierce whtto heat from clobe
walled streets, and scented the odors t
"mangly" swamps. Ho heard tho cease
less Blghlng of royal palms. How he had
hungered for It all; how ho had raged
at his delays! Cuba's spell was upon
him; ho knew now that he loved the
Island, and" that ha would never feel at
rest on other soli.
It had seemed to small a matter to re
turn; It had seemed so easy to seek out
Koba and to savo her! Yet the days had
grown Into weeks; tho weeks bad aged
Into months. Well, ho had done his best;
ha had never rested from the moment of
Rosa'a first appeal. Her enemies had
foiled him once, but there would be no
turning back this time rather a firing
siuad or a dungeon In Cabanas than
that.
O'Reilly had taken his bitter medicine
as becomes a man ho had maintained a
calm, if not a cheerful, front; but now
that every throb of tho propeller bora
him closer to hts heart's desire he felt a
growlnr Jubilation, a mounting restless
noss that waa hard to master. Hi pulse
was pounding; his breath swelled In his
lungs. Sleep? That wob for those who
merely risked their Uvea for Cuba.
Hunger? No food could batlsfy a starv
ing soul. Itest? He would never rest
until he held Rosa Vdrona in his arms.
This rusty, sluggish tub waa standing
. still!
Preparing for the Spaniards
Into the midst of his preoccupation
Norlne Evana forced herself, announcing,
breathlessly:
"Oh, but I'm excited! They're hoisting
a cannon out of the hold and putting it
together, so that we can fight If we have
to."
"Now don't you wish you'd stayed at
home7" O'Reilly smiled at her.
"dood heavens, no! I'm having the
time of my life. I nearly died of curiosity
at first until I found Major Ramoa'a
"Hmm! You found It, all light, llo
appears to be completely conquered."
"I -I'm nfrald so," tho girl acknowl
edged, with a little grimace. "You'd think
he'd never been a woman before. He's
very Intenbo. Very!"
"You don't e.pect me, as your chap
eron, to approve of your behavior? Why,
you've been flirting outingeously."
"I had to flirt a little: I simply had
to know what was going on. Hut I
fixed him."
"Indeed'.'"
"I couldn't let him spoil my fun, could
1? Of course not. Well, I put a damper
on him. 1 told him about you about
us."
O'Reilly was puzzled. "What do jou
mean?" ho Inquired.
"You won't bo angty, will you? When
he waxed romantic I told him ho had
come Into my llfo too late. I confebsed
that I was lu love with another man
with you." As her hearer diew back In
dismay Miss Evans added, quickly, "Oh,,
don't bo f lightened; that Isn't half "
"Of course you're Joking," Johnulo
stammered.
KngaRcd!
"Indeed I'm not. I thought it would
discourage him. but It didn't. So I told
him a whopper. I bald wo were en
gaged." The speaker tittered. She was
delighted with herself.
"Engaged? To bo man led?"
"Certainly! I'eople aren't engaged to
go fishing, are they? I had to tell him
something; ho was getting positively
feveilah. If ho'd kept It up I'd have told
him we were secretly married."
"This may be funny," the young man
said stiffly, "but I don't beo It."
"Oh, don't look so glum! I'm not going
to hold you to It. you know. Why"
Miss Evans' bantering manner ceased
and she said earnestly: "Doctor Alvarado
told me your story, and I thjnk It's splen
did. I'm going to help you find that littlo
Rosa, If you'll let me. You wcro thinking
about her whon I came up, weren't you?"
Johnnie nodded.
"You might talk to me about her, If
you care to."
O'Reilly's voice was husky and low as
ho said; "I daren't trust myself. I'm
afraid. She'a so young, so sweet, bo
beautiful and these are wartimes. I'm
almost afraid to think "
Norlne saw her companion's checks
blanch slowly, saw his laughing eyes
grow grave, saw the muscular brown
hand upon the rail tighten until the
knuckles were white; Impulsively she laid
her palm over his.
"Don't let. yourself worry," she said.
"If money would buy her safety you
i.m lmvA nil flint T linvn. Just bo bruvo
and true and patient and you'll find her.
I'm sure ydu will. And In the meantlmo
dnn't mind my frivolity; It's Juxt my
way. You bee, this Is my first tasto of
life, and It bus gone to my head."
CHAPTER XVI
THE CITY AMONG THE LEAVES
TIIK night was moonlus-! nnd warm.
An Impalpable hazo dimmed tho Btar
glow; only the diffused Illumination ot
the open sea enabled the passengers of
the Fair Play to Identify that blacker
darkness on the horizon ahead of them
as land. The ship herself was no moro
than a formless blot stealing through
the gloom, and savo for the phosphoies
cence at bow and stern no light betrayed
her presence, not even so much as tho
Hare of a match or the coal from a cigar
or cigarette. Orders of tho strictest had
been Issued nnd tho expedlclonorlos gath
ered along the rails wero not inclined to
disregard them, for only two nights be
fore tho Fair IMay, In splto of every
precaution, had shoved her nose falily
into a hornets' nest and had managed to
escape only by virtue of the dailcness nnd
the speed of her engines.
She had approached within a mile or
two of the prearranged landing placo
when over the mangroves had flared the
blinding white light of a Spanish patrol
boat; like a thief surprised at his work
the tramp had turned tall and fled, never
pausing until she lay safo among the
Bahama Banks.
Seeking the Channel
Now she was feeling her way back,
some distance to the westward. Mujor
Ramos was on the bridge with tho cap
tain. Two men were taking boundlnga In
a blind search for that steep wall which
forms the side of the old Bahama Chan
nel. When the lead finally gave them warn
ing, the Fair Play lost her headway and
came to a stop, rolling lazily; In tho
htlence that ensued Leslie Branch's recur
rent cough barked loudly.
"They're afraid to go closer, on account
of the reef," O'Reilly explained to his
companions.
"That must be It that I hear," Norlne
ventured. "Or maybe It's Just tha roar
ing in my ears."
"Probably the latter," said Branch.
"I'm scared stiff. I don't like reefs. Ar
there any sharks In these waters?"
"Plenty."
"Well, I'm glad I'm thin." the sick man
murmured.
Major Ramos spoke In a low tone from
tha durkness 'above, calling for a volun
teer boat's crew to reconnoUer nnd to
look for an opening through the reef.
Till: KTOIIY TIU'S KAI
.IOIIN.MF: ('lti:il.!.V, more riiniiuniily kniinti na TIIK O'H r.ll.l.Y. Iin fnllrn
In lnf ultli HOS.V .mN., one of the orphan of DON RSTUIIAN V.MSONA.
wrnllliy l- owner anil xUKiir planter of Culm, Don ltrltnn IibiI hoarded 11
in.l i (irlu lie In prerloni. (.tones otil "qiHiilnli rnln nnd modern rurrenry In u
-erret rlinmlier nl (lie bottom of n m ell. He im Kmlteil In liiiUiUmr till" uell
lv Selmntlnn, n faithful nIh the only other pernti tn ivlinre the nerret. Don
i;tetnn nmrrlnl n eerond time, anil the I)ONN. ISAIIIX, the euereoful iioimn,
liuil heroine lil wife In the hopeH of Inheriting the fortune. Hut when Sehaiitlun
turned upon III" nmMer nnd killed him, running IM until n liullet throunh Mi
hlurk hruln laid him low, the imirltlnatloiiH of Isabel nettled the erret of the.
treasure' hlillnir place fnreter. Later l-abel. her in I nil turned ax n rraiilt ot
hrondlne mer the trenmtre, n hilled hy falling Into the well.
At till time the ('iiliitm. Here rlnlnic In renlt aRalnit Npalu. Johnnie, hn
represented a New York Arm In Culm, had returned to New York temporarily
before MnhelV death. KbTKIlAN, Itona'x brother, wan a rebel py nnd the Inn
orphan ttere compelled to flee Into the wlldrrnm. They obtained refuse In the
hut of llVANOr.f.INA. Srbnullan'a daiiEhter. I'ANCHO flllTO, Don Ktehau' old
manager. Is now In complete rnntrol of the property and leads net era! parlies In
'a nln attempt to do awny ulth the two 'nunc people who still stand In his path.
Ksteban falls In return from a raid, and Itnsa Is compelled to co to the concentra
tion camp ut Miitanin to keep from Murdnir.
Mriuiuhllc, O'ltellly lias made aln effort to eel to the rebel lines. Ills'
first trip In Cuba failed, and now be has Joined a Jiintn tinder command of .Major
Kamns. With him are I.KMI.Ii; IlKANCII, a ton iptle newspaper tnrrespontlent,
and NOItlNIJ i:.NM, a rich jotinu woman In sympathy with the rebels, who made
the Jutilu possible.
yards, and the Fair Play was lost to
view; but, keeping his face set toward
that Inky horizon, O'Reilly guided his
bout perhaps u half-mile nearer befoie
ordering his ciew to cease rowing. Now
through tho stillness came a low, slow,
pulsating whisper, the voice of the bar-
iter leef.
The trade-wlndH had died with tho sun,
and only the gentlest ground-swell was
tunning; nevertheless, when the boat
drew furthor in the sound Increabed
alarmingly, and soon a white breaker
btroak showed dimly wheie tho coral
teeth of tho reef hit through.
The Opening
There was a long night's work ahead;
time pressed, and so O'Reilly altered hlb
course and cruised along outside the
white water, urging his crew to lustier
strokes. It was haphazard work, this
search for an opening, and every hour of
delay Increased the danger of discovery.
A mile two miles It seemed like ten
to the taut oarsmen, and then a black
hiatus of still water showed In the phos
phorescent foam. O'Reilly explored It
piofcsslonul men, rlerkn, clsarmukers,
and the like; few of them had ever dune
hard manual labor; yet they fell to their
tihkn willingly enough. While they
worked a plow watch with night glasses
was maintained fiom tho bridge.
Safely Landed
O'ltellly took the (list loud through tho
teef, and discharged It upun a bandy
beach. No one heetued to know posi
tively whether this was the mainland or
some key; and theie wab no time for ex
ploration; In either event, there wan no
cholco of action. Every man tumbled
overboard and waded ushoio with a pack
ing case; ho diopped this In the wand
above high-tide mark, and then lan back
for another. It was swift, hot work.
From the darkness on each side came the
sounds of other boat crews blmlluily en
gaged. Johnnie wux back alongblde the ship
and ready for a becond cargo before the
last tender had bet out upon Its first trip,
and then for bevcral hours this slavish
activity contlnjicd. Some crews lost
themselves lu the gloom, fetched up on
briefly; then he turned back toward the the reef, and were forced to dump their
ship. When he had gone as far as fit.
dared, he lit a lantern and, shielding Its
rays from the shore with his coat, flushed
It seaward. After a short Interval a dim
red eye winked out of tho blacknesa.
O'Reilly steered for It.
Soon he and his crew were aboard and
the ship was groping her way toward
the break In the reef. Meanwhile, her
deck became a scene of feverish activity;
out from her hold came cases of ammuni
tion and medical supplies; the field-piece
on the bow was hurriedly dismounted;
freight into the foam, trusting to salvage
It when daylight came.
Every one was wet to the skin; bodies
steamed In the heat; men who had pulled
at oars until their hands were raw and
bleeding cursed and groaned at their own
fatigue. But there was little shirking;
those whose strength completely failed
them dropped In the sand and rested until,
they could resume their labors.
Daylight was coming when the lust boat
cast off and the Fair Play, with a hoarBe
triumphant blast of her whistle, faded
into the north, her part In the expedition
tha small boats, of which there wero an
Refore the wordi wero out of his mouth 'extra number, wero Bwung out, with the at an end
O'Reilly hud offered himself. lesult that when the Fair Play had O'Reilly bore Norlne Evans ashore In
Ten minutes later he found himself at maneuvered as cloto as she daied every- his arms, and when he placed her feet
tho steering oar ot one tha ship's life- thing was In readiness. upon Cuban soil she hugged him, crying:
boats, heading shoreward.' A hundred , Many of these ebtpedlclunarlos were "Wo fooled them, Johnnie! But If U
hadn't been for you we'd have turned
back. The captain was afraid of tha
reef."
"I don't mind telling ou I was afraid,
too," he blghed wearily.. "Now then, about
all we have to fear ore Spanish coast
guards "
The Alarm
Dawn showed the voyagers that they
were Indeed fortunate, for they wera upon
the mainland of Cuba, and as far as they
could see, both east and west, the reef
was unbroken. There waa still soma un
ceitalnty as to their precise position, for
the Jungle at their backs shut off their
view ot the interior; but that gave them
little concern. Men were lolling about,
exhausted, but Major Ramos' allowed
them no time for rebt: he roused them
and kept them on the go until the price
less supplies had been collected within
the shelter of the brush. Then he broke
open certain packages and distributed
arms among his followers.
Even while this was going on there
came an alarm; over the low promontory
that cut off the eastern coast line a
bti earner of binoke was seen. There waa
a bcurry for cover; the little band lay
low and watched while a Spanish cruiser
htole past not' more than a mile outside
the line of froth.
The three Americans, who weie munch
ing a tasteless lueakfast of pilot bread,
were Joined by Mujor Ramos. He was
no longer the Immaculate parsonage he
had been; he was barefooted; his clothes,
were torn; his trousers were rolled up to
the knee and whitened by sea water, while
the revolver ut his hip and the bandolier
of cartridges over his shoulder lent him
an incongruously ferocious appearance.
Ever since Norlne had so rudely shat
tered his romantic fancies the Major had
treated both her and O'Reilly with a stltt
anq mutant rormauty. He began now by " "ny
saylnc: ' lii
'f um rilitriu ninfw 11 n.Buo.iA n ll-
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Aot 1nn.l I.-...,, . ,., Ll &?!
c-, uuiucAB ,icuiUUI ICIH, UHHing nun VA
iu genu u. iui;k iruin una un escort lor xt
these supplies. There Is danger here; ' J
perhaps you would like to go -on with
the couriers?"
O'Reilly accepted eagerly; then thinking
of the girl, he said doubtfully: '
"I'm afraid Miss Evans Isn't equal to
the, trip"."
Norlne Goes on a Journey
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k "N'onajnae! I'm eaual fa mnvthlnt 'Wrn
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4suiiite uqnaicu. stim IHUC014 aitv tuuitvil i
capauie enough as sne stood mere in necr,
hhort walking suit and stout boots, -,
Branch alona declined the Invitation,
vowing that ha was too weak to bu4ft4
If there was the faintest prospect if
riding to the Interior he lnflnltelyMM
ferred to awolt the opportunity, he.
even at the risk of an attack by
Ish soldiers in the meantime,
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