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jVhen Governor Penny packer's Father Died the
Family Moved Hack to Phocnixvillc, but a
Few Years Later Samuel Returned to the
City to Earn His Livelihood and to Con
tribute to the Family Income
CHAPTER II (Continued)
A FEW months Inter, on the thirtenth of Fcbrunry, 1850, my
father died from nn attack of erysipelas and typhoid fever. He
was attended by Doctors Tyson and Urincklc. There weic poems writ
ten and editorial regrets. Doctor Clark picnehed a sermon in the
Baptist Church, called The Tabernacle, on Chestnut sticct west of
Eighteenth, and Doctor Koach another in St. George'. Methodist
Episcopal Church upon the untoward event. Doctor Hartshornu
delivered n memorial addiess to the classes, in which he said: "To
this school especially he Rave all his great mental energies with the
pride of n founder, which in a certain sense, as it now stands, he was;
it seems to us now like an edifice whose foicmost column has fallen
down or a tree whose topmost bough is broken off."
Hack to Phocnixville
There were sales of his interest in the college, which soon after
ward became blended with the Jefferson Medical College; of his
house in Phoenixville to John Vnnderslice for one-half of its value, '
of the house on Chestnut street and of my mother's faim in Chester
County, nnd when they were all over she had just $7000 upon which
to depend. She had four children, of whom I was the oldest, and
my brother James hnd been bom only in December. She had char
acter, met the situation with courage and fortitude, took her family
to the home of her father at Mont Clare and there kept house for
him. The house, capacious and impressive, built of stone, plastered
outside, with n porch in fiont, approached by a flight of marble steps
and another in the rear, with massive doors and high ceilings, a
large and unusual parlor, paitly separated by Doric columns, and
a wide hall tunning from porch to porch, stood on a crest sloping
toward the Schuylkill. It had, however, a basement kitchen and
dining room, and peihaps fiom this cause my mother became a prcv.
to rheumatism, suffering with it for thirty years. With the death
of my father came to me an abrupt change not only in the manner
of life, but in those influences which affect the cm rents of thought
Up to that time my life had been that of a Pcnnypackor, and the
career which had been proposed for me and accepted with no sense
of uncertainty was that I should pursue a couwe at college and then
lead law. The Whitaker point of view was thoroughly practical.
My grandfather had large means, but to provide giatilication for
idle and unproductive people was no part of his philosophy. In
truth, even thus enrly in life, I felt a great sense of responsibility
and the need which had come to mo to bo up and doing. My mother
came to me with her confidences and to a great extent began to lean
upon me. She continued to do so through the whole of her long life
and we weic not theieafter for any length of time separated. Tem
porarily, I went to the public school in Phocniwillc on the south side
of the creek in a yellow building at the coiner, of Church and Gay
streets, the teacher being Joseph Addison Thomson, one of a local
family all of whom possess more than oidinary intelligence, lloth
boys and girls attended the school. We sang geography. We had
spelling bees and spelled each other down. One of the duties of
eery teacher at that day was to write a headline on each page of
each schojar's copybook, which ho or she endeavored to imitate for
the acquisition of good chirography. I remember on one occasion
writing in my book as a ventuie of my own the line:
"An Austrian army awfully anayed"
and being surprised to find that the next copy given me by Thomson
was the following line:
"Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade."
About this period an unusual and interesting series of events
occurred at Mont Clare. To undci stand them there need be added
nothing more to the description of the house than to say that from
the center of the hall a narrow entry led to the op of the stairway
and E'ne rustic Governor
to the kitchen. In this entiy, near the ceiling and fai out of reach,
hung the doorbell from the front door. On the other side of the
entry a crooked stairway, used by the servants, ran to the thiul
story. The occupants of the house were my grandfather, who wns
often away upon business; my grandmother, my two aunts, Klmi
betli and Geitrude, then unman led; my mother and her children,
my Aunt Small, whose illness pt evented her fiom leaving the third
floor; Patrick Orr, a stableman; Panny, a very black girl of about
twelve years of age, whotn Aunt Sally daily and diligently tried
to wash white and comb straight, and two girls in the ' itchen.
Across the road which r.v. by to Norristown lived "Auntie Jacobs," a
nice old Quaker lady, with her two old bachelor sons, John and Ben
jamin. Prior to the Revolution the Jacobs family had been one of
the most influential families of the province, having their part in
every important movement, but the lapse of time hnd lessened the
nervous force nnd energy. John nnd Benjamin lived on the ancestral
acres, cleanly and upright, full of anti-slavery traditions, a little
given to science and chess, a little prone to adopt all of the advanced
notions that came floating along, and without much of the vigor
which leads to achievement. At Rochester, in New York, spirits
had disclosed themselves to some women by lapping in mysterious
ways and moving tables and chairs. Why they should so behave no
one could explain, though the subject was talked about all o er the
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countr.v. John and Benjamin Jacobs came acioss the load to Mt
with my aunts about a tound table with the hands of nil four on the
toji of it, in an offoit to get it to nunc, and listening for the laps
which ought natuially in sequence to follow. After a few weeks of
unresponsive endcaor the tiling started with a vengeance in Mich
a way as not only to discommode the family and make them uneasy,
but to distui b the noighboihood. The happenings always occurred
at night. The bells lung long and loudly when there were no visitors,
lappings were heaid all over the house and there were tappings on
the window panes, both up and down stairs. Blows weie struck
upon the doors, as though with a club. Oftentimes the souinls seemed
to be made in tlje ety presence of those who wetc watching. On
one occasion Pat stood with a club at the back door, with the door
ajar, when a loud thump happened at his side. "Bejabeis, Io got
ye now!" said Pat as he threw the door wide open. Daikness theie
and nothing moie! On another occasion l'anny and I had our heads
out of a thiul-story window, on the watch, when a loud noise in
another part of the house startled all in it and called us theie. One
evening a member of the family coming up the stairs stumbled over
a huge gilt minor of gieat weight which had hung for ycais in a
room in the third story. Another night the wife of my Uncle William
P. ( Whitaker. then on a Kit to the household, going up the bioad
stairway in the dark was confionted by some obscutc (iguic and
tainted. Naturally, the members of the family thought that some
body in the neighborhood played these pranks, and their suspicion
fell upon a woman who occasionally came to the house and knew its
airaiigeineiit. Kveij elfoit was made to catch this person in the
act. Flour was sprinkled over the poiches so that ttaces of the foot
steps would be left. John and Benjamin Jacobs hid behind the shrub
bery on the lawn and waited for hours, Relays weic stationed at
the upper windows. It was labor in vain. The manifestations
continued at intervals for perhaps three months and then ceased
temporarily. After about tlnce months they began again, to be
followed by a period of quiet and by a third recuriencc, altogether
covering moie than a jeai's time. Outside of the house and near to it
stood a frame structure used for the purpose of storing wood and
as a leceptacle for cast-off material. On a dark night a member
of the family going to this house found a lot of wood gathered
together with paper and diy chips underneath, and the black girl,
Fanny, with a box of matches in the very act of setting it on lire.
The seciet was out and she told her story. She had rung the door
bell by running up the naiiow back staiiw.iy and pulling out a
p. -" w JaH' III tEh -! Mim a
lie ni.irii.me license of Joseph N hilaker nnd Grace Adams
rie of the most interesting documents now in existence,
ivue it was signed b Nicholas Collin, the last Swedish
minister of Old Swedes Church. The date is April 28, 1811.
I lie spelling, as frequently happened in those dajs, is incor-
I'.'it. .Mr. and Mrs. Whitaker in middle life arc shown
below it. -i.
brass stair iod which enabled her to reach the bell. She had
various devices to pioducc the rappings. She had a supply of
tinder under the carpet of the stairway ready to bet the mansion
on lire if successful with the outer stiucture. She was hurried
away in order to have her escape the severe thrashing which grand
father would study hae given her had he been at home, and th
house thereafter had no more communications from the spirit.
She was such a dull, thick-witted, stupid little creature that a con
sensus of opinion, based upon knowledge of her and recollection
of occuiiences which apparently she could not possibly have pro
duced, attiibutcd outside assistance to her.
One morning my Uncle Joseph, a bachelor, masterful, brusque
geneious and lich, upon whom had devohed much of the direction
of our future, came to mo and said:
"Sam, you aie now old enough to get to work; what do you
want to do?"
I knew well enough what 1 wanted to do, but it seemed to b
bejond the taiige of possibility and of what was within that rang
had not the slightest idea, and so I rather feebly answered:
"1 should like to do as you do."
"Humph," he said. "My fortune is made and yours is yet to
be found."
(-iTINli:t MONDAY)
RAIN
BOW'S
END
By REX BEACH '
J5' Author of "The Spoilers," "The !!?
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 l'HT.
CHAPTER XVII-
Harper .1 Urns
-Continued
THi: clt. jf ,latniiiMri was "jucitli il "
So ran the boastful bando of the can
' tain general. And this was no enuncia
tion, as any one could seo fiom the num
ber of bcKguia thcio. Of all his militaiy
operations, this "pacification" of the west
era towns and provinces was th most
conspicuously successful and the one
which gave Valerlano Weyler tho keen
est satisfaction; for nowhere did rebellion
lift Us head, except, perhaps, among the
ranks of those disaffected men who hid
In tho hills, with nothing above them but
tho open sky. As for tho population at
large, It was cured of treason; It no longer
resisted, even weakly, tho law of Spain.
The leason was that it lay dImr. Wey
ltr's euro was simple, efficacious It con
Isted of extermination, swift and pitiless.
Modern Barbarity
Poorty had been common In Matan
ras, even before the war, but now thero
were so many beggars In the city that
nobody undertook to count them. When
the refugees began to pour In by tho
thousands, and when it became apparent
that tho Government intended to let them
ttarve, tho better citizens undeitook an
tffort at relict; but times wero hard, food
was hcarce and pi ices high. Moreover,
it soon transpired that the military
frowned upon everything liko organized
charity, and in consequence tho new
comers were, perforce, abandoned to their
own devices. These country people weio
dumb and terrified at tho mlsfoi tunes
Which had overtaken them; they wan
dered tho streets in nlmless bewilderment,
fearful of what blow might next befall.
They wero not used to begging, and there
fore t,hcy did not often implore alms;
but all flay long they asked for work, for
bread, thatrthelr littlo ones might live.
Work, however, was een scaicer than
food, and tho timo soon came when they
1 crouched upon cuibs and dooi steps, hope
less, beaten, silently lepio.ichful of thoso
more fortunato than fhey. Their eyes
Brew big and hollow; their outsti etched
hands grew gaunt and skinny. The sound
of weeping women and f letting babies
became a common thing to hear.
'J Systematic Starvation
In the suburbs, Just within the ling
of guardian forts, un "area of cultivation"
aH get aside, and here the prisoners put
up huts of yagua comfoi tless bark shel
ters, which wero well enough, peihaps.
n fair weather, but sadly InclfcctUo
against wind nnd rain. Hei e, housed with
hunger und crowded together In lade-
swjbjible squalor, they dwelt, seeking
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pfd wey nau no laim ljniiuunviiu,
cjutiniaiP4y'iiatever 01 cuimvmu
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this giound apportioned to their use, it
uiii.iined untitled whllo they grow lain
rilei day by day. Outside tho lines thero
weio am, potatoes, odlblo loots and
such for the Hpani.uris' woik of desola
tion had not been quite complete, and no
hand ran 10b tho Cuban soli of all its
ill lies; but thu p.icitlcos wero not allowed
to leave tho city.
l'ish were plentiful In the haibol, too.
hut to catch them was foi bidden. Scuttles
weie on guard with icady rifles and ha led
machetes; eeiy morning tliiougli tho
filthy reconcentiado quarter gueirlllas
drove pack mules bearing tho multllated
bodies of those who had daied duilng the
night to seek food surreptitiously. Some
times they dragged theso ghastly lemlnd
eis at tho ends of lopes; this. Indeed,
was n fanilte way with them.
Hogs and cats became choice in tides
of diet, until they dlsappeaied. The Oov
eminent did supply ono quality of food,
however; at lntcivals it distributed jucca
loots, llut theso wero stairhy nnd al
most indigestible. Kiom citing them
tho chlldicn giew pinched In ljnib and
face, while their abdomens bloated liugelv.
Matairas becnnio peopled with a i.ico or
grotesquely misshapen little folks,
gnomes with young bodies, but with faces
old and sick.
"Pacified Mutanzas"
Of course, disease became epidemic, for
In tho leaky hovels, dlrt-llooied and desti
tute, of any convenience, theio could bo
no effort of sanitation. Conditions be
came unspeakable. Tho chlldien dlnl
first, then tho aged and Intlrm, Deaths
in tho street weie not uncommon; neatly
every morning bodies were found beneath
tho porlalcs. Staivlng cieatures cicpt
to tho maiket In tho hope of begging u
stray bit of food, and somu of them died
theie, between the empty stalls. The
death-wagons, heavy with their tl illy
fi eight, tumbled ceaselessly thiough tho
streets, adding to tho giant piles of un
bulled corpses outside tho city.
Tphoid. smallpox, el!ow feer. tuned
unchecked. The hospitals weie crowded,
and even in them tho commonest neces
sities wero lacking. It Is belleed that
men hao returned from the giuve, but
no one, either Spaniard or Cuban, had
over been known to leturn fiom ono ot
these pest-houses, and, in consequence,
those who were stricken piefened to ie
main and to die among their dear ones.
Yes, Muntaiuwn was iwieifled. Woyler's
boast was true. Nowhere in tho entire
piuvlilco was a Held In cultivation; no.
where) outsido tho gutilsoned towns, wus
a house left standing. Nor was tho city
of Matanzas tho only concentration camp;
therfi were others dotted througn eanu
Clare, ilabunk. nnd Pinar del Wo. In
them half a million persons cried for food,
Titily no lebellioiis land was eui mini
completely padded than tills, no people's
s-phlts oer nunc nnnpletely crushed
Voices no lunger pi cached 11 slstance; the
piaed to 'Our I.atl nt Pitj" foi a meiel
fill conclusion of this inlseiv. Hands
weie upiiilsed, but nnh to Imploie. In
leaky huts fiom .luc.uo to Cnpe Sm An
tonio the dead la stietihed thleklj.
ICosa's Shelter
Into .Mutiiii.is, dt of bcggaiy and
death, came, Ilos.i Vnion.i and her two
uogio companions, looking for icllef.
They made tho Journey without mishap,
for the weie too destitute to warrant
plundeilng, and ltov.i'n disguise eomeiiled
what I'hauns lfinalued of her. Uut unci
they had cuteied the city, wh.it an awak
ening! What sniveling, what poveitN,
whit lags the saw' The tin ro of them
giew weak with illsina at the houoi of
it all: but theie w.is no ietie.it,
Asonslo built a makeshift shelter eloso
under I.a Outline fiom It tho iiilns of
the Qulnta de INtebaii weie visible ami
theio they settled down to live Tliev
had hoped to lose thunselxes among tho
other piihoneis, and ill this they weio
successful, for none of their inlseiubln
nelghbois weio in any condition to notleti
them, and them was nothing sulllclcntly
conspicuous about two tatteied blacks and
their liunclih.K ki-d daughter to diaw at
tention fiom the soldlcis.
Asenslo foiuged -zealously, and at (list
ho managed somehow to seeuie enough
food for his littlo fiimilv. Ho ile eloped
a ical talent for dlseoseilng vegetables
and fiults. IIo stole, ho begged, and lie
found food whtto theie was none. Ono
day tho soldleis se-(d him and put him
to woik on tho foitltlcations along with
a gang of other men who npeuted stiong
enough to Maud haul labor. Asenslo wan
not paid for this, but ho was allowed ono
meal a day, and he succeeded III bilng
ing home each night a sliaie of his allot
ment. Existence
It is suipilslng how littlo noinihlinieiit
will sustain life, llosa and hei two
fi lends had Jong felt tho pinch of hunger,
but now they plumbed new depths of
ptivatlou, for theio weie dajs when
Asenslo and his fellow-conscilpts ie
celved nothfng at all. After a time
Hvangellna began making baskets and
weaving palm-ltjuf hats, which sho sold
at six cents e.tch. Bho taught Kosa tho
craft, ami thoy woiked fiom dawn until
dark, sttlvlng with .nimble, tlielcss lingers
to supplement Asenslo's rations und post,
pone staivatlon. llut it was a hopeless
task. Other nhnblo fingers worked us
tirelessly us theliH, and the. demu'nd for
httt was limited;.
Their hut overlooked the road to San
Scwiiim. that via doloio-a on which eon
ilinined pilmneih weie maiehcd out to
et-i titiim, and In time the women
leainul to lecogulre the peciillai bl.iilng
notis ol a ceitaln i unlet, which Hignitled
that another "Cuban cock was about t"
now " When In the damp uf dewy innin
ings the;, lieanl that bugle the nased
their weaving long enough to cinss them
Mhi's mid whisper a pi.ijer for the souls
of those who weio on their way to die
Hut this was the only icspite they in
lowed themselves,
Itnsa meditated much upon the contrast
bitween her piesent and her fnimer con
dition. Matatras was the city of her
bhth, mid time was when (die had tiod
its slieets in aiiugiiuec and pride, when
she had possessed fi lends bv the seme
among its lesldeuts. llut of alt these theie
was not one to whom she dined appeal
in this, her hour of need. These weie
liuisli times; Spanish hatied of the i evo
lutionists was bittei, and of the Cuban
KVinpathlZeis none weio left Mm cover,
llsteban's denoum eincnt as a tiattor bad
cstiangcd all who lem.ilned lojal to the
clown, and so far lis Ilos.i hei self wiih
(ouceiiieil, sho knew that it would not
nutter to them that sho bad cleaved to
him nieielv from slsteilv devotion: by
that ait she had undo hei self u common
eiieinv and they would suncelv sympa
thize with hei plight. Tho gill had
ltMiritd onl too well what splilt was
nbioad. I tut even had she felt assuied
of meeting smithy, her pildo was pme
Castlllill, and It would never down.
She, a Vaioua, whose name was one to
iimjuio with, whosu lluengo was nt the
highest! She to beg.' Tho thing was
qillto liuposslble. One numb, so taken,
would have choked her. llosa piefened
to suffer lnoudly and await the hour
when hungci or dlscaso would at IiihI blot
out her memoiies of huppy das and end
this nlghtinaie mlseiy.
The .Memory of Colonel Cobo
Then, too, she dieadcd liny ilsk of dis
covery by old Muilo de Ciistuuo, who was
a haul, vindictive num. Ills paitlug
winds hud shown her thut ho would
never foi give the slight she hud put
upon Mini; and sho did not wish to put
his till eats to the test. Onco llosa saw
him, on her wuy to. buy a few centuvo..
worth of sweet potutoes; he wus huddled
In his victoiiu, a lingo bludder of flesh,
and ho lodo the stteets deuf to the plaints
of starving childteu, blind to the misery
of beseeching mothers, Itosa sliiunk Into
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liroeiliiiK uer the treasure, ttas ttllleil lit rnllltii; Intn Hie ttell.
t this lime the Cntialis tere rising In retult hkhIiisI spaiu, Jiihnnle, Mini
ri'iireseiiteil a Nett 1 url. Ilrm In Cubit. Inn! returned In Sett nrl. tempururll
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uriiliaus ttere t uuiiielleil lit llee Intn Hie t llilerness. , 'I lie uMalneil refuije In til
lull i.r I.V VSIillt.lNV. Sebastian's ililllKlller. I'VM HO I in (. Ilun l.stehun's iilil
lunnitver. Is uutv In tuliililett euntriil uf the pruiiiTU Hlul bails seteral parties In
a tain atteliipl tu ilu anii.v IHl the tttn .Miline peuple win. sllll slaml In hl pnlli.
I.sitlimi falls tu return friim it ralil, ami Itnsa Is tmnpelleil tu mi Hie urn eulru
II. ,n tiiinp at Vlalitiias tu keep from stitrtliiK.
Metliltlllle, O'ltelllt has iiimle n tain ellurl In irrl lo the rehel lines. 111.
first trip tu t llhit fitlleil, ami nutt lie has J.ilneil u Junln iimler tiitnnianil uf Mtijur
l!n , With It tin are l.l.sl.u; IIIIVMII, a t unniimptlir nettspuper urrespiiuileiit,
ami MlltIM V NS, n rlih .tulllix tlullimi III .miii illl.t vtllll Hie rebels, tihn niHile
III,. Junta pu-sllile.
'I he epeilllluu litliils safelt un it set linleil pari uf Hie u linn shore, mill O'Kelllt,
ttltb Ml" I : s it If. hemls it siniill patr.t i.irr.tliiB news In l.eliirul luiinei uf Hie Junlu'x
afe arrltal. VI ( uliltas O'ISelll.t is mel b Jt'llsOS, al, merliau taptulii ul
urllllert, tbit tries In ublalli .Inblinle as a reiruil.
O'ltelil.t si es ( uhilii I I upe, tt hn tells lilm uf the fate that has befallen Lslehiiu
ami llosti.
mini's meniorv haunted her. iisleep and Implldt tu it It in i:aii(,ellna's discretion,
awake; of him sho was most desperately she knew that Asenslo was nut the sort
lift iilil. When fnl the III st tlino sho saw of lellnvv to be II listed with it seeic'l of
lilm ildliig ut the bend of Ills cutthiniits t,ient magnitude- lie was boastful, talk-
sho wus like to swoon In her tl.uks, and alive, evltuble, he was Just the sort to
for a whole tiny tbeieufler she inweted tiring destruction iip.ni all of tlirin. Rosa
In tho hut, trembling at every sound. had millielont intdligeuce to reitll.n thut
in these d.iik lioiiiH sho tecnlled the even If she tound her fathei's i Idles they
Hloiles of the old Vaiona treisure, and would only constitute another ninl a
lIstobail'K Interesting theory of Us wheie- gie.iler menace In the lives of nil of them,
aboiils, but she could not hi lug bet self ,N'evi ttheless, she wished to set lur mind
to put much talth in either. At tho tlmo ut lest once and foi all. Taking Uvange-
of her hi other's lecltal sho had been Una with lire, sho climbed Ii ('limine one
swuved by his conviction, but now on
eoolor thought a ihucn eplanallons of
Dona Isabel's possession of tint doubloon
iilTored theiutelves, no one of which
seemed less piobublo thnn 1'ntoban'H. of
couise. It wus lmmly possible that them
was indeed a treusine, and even that
Kstcbun's suinilse had been collect. Hut
It was littlo mom than a remote possibil
ity. Distance lends a losy color of real
ity to our most absuid Imaginings, but,
liko the liiizn that tints a fursiff land
scape. It dissolves upon iipptoach. Now
that llosa wus here, hi sight of the mined
qulnta Itself, her hopes und half beliefs
faded.
At the Old Home
Sho wanted, oh, so desperatel, to be
lieve In It, but tho grinding mlseiy of
her situation made It haul to do so,
day ill seat eh of kioIh und vegetables.
.Memories
It tinned out to bo a sad cxpeilcnco
fur both women. The negriss wept Unix
lly at the destruction wrought b I'anchn
Cuftn, uml Itnsa wus overcome Ij painful
memories. Kiltie thut was fumlllur re
mained; evidence of Cueto's iill-dcv mir
ing greed siKtke from the sprouting fur
pool of scum was in the bottom. After
a long sctutiny thu girl utosc, convinced
at last of her brother's delusion, und
vuguel ashamed of her own credulity.
This was about the last repository that
such a man as m Kstcban, her father,
would have been likely to select; for,
after all, .the most vuluablo part of lite
fortune hud consisted of the deeds of tltte
to tho plantations. No, If ever there had
been a treasure, it was hidden elsewhere;
all of value that this well contained 'for
Itnsa was her memory of a, happiness de
parted. 'f such memories, the well, the
whole pluis', wus brimful. Here, as
i hlld, sho had romped with Ksteban.
Here, hk h girl, sho had dreamed her
thst dreams, und here O'ltcllly. her smil
ing knight, had found her.
Yonder was the very spot where he ha4L
held her in his aims and begged her to
i wait the day of his retuin. Well, she
had waited
Hut was that Kosa Vuroiid who had
piomised so'fiecly and so confidently thia
pitiful llosa whose bones protrudod
through her rags' It could not be. Hup.
plness, contentment, hope these vyer
fictions; onlj misery, despair und pain
weie Kid Hut it bad leen a glorlou1
ilieuni. at any rate a dieam which Hot,
vowisl to cherUh alwas.
Hvuiigelina found the girl sitting til.
the sun. her thin face rudlant, her great
ccs wet but smiling.
"Come, little dovo," said the n egress,
"there Is nothing here to eat; -o muct
get luck to our weaving,"
CHAPTER XVIII
IT WAS part of (he strategy practiced! &
by the Cuban leaders to divide their "ftj
' . -sal
foi ccs Into separate coiutmm for the purvttSJ
pose of raiding the smaller Spanish gar-'-JM
I isons and harassing, the troops sent WJ,t
their relief, reassembling these uanu
onlj when and wheie some tolling blow
uun to lo stiuck. Not only had the '-.
military value of this practice been amply jrf
demonstrated, but It hud been proved tl
Wonders like that rume truo only In
a dooiwuy and dtew her tuttered shawl fttjry talcs, sho told herself; and certainly
closer over her face for fear Don Mario h)i0 jwj no cause to consider herself u
might recognize In this misshapen body favorite of fortune,
und In these pinched, dlkcoloied features More than once she wns tempted to con-
tho beauteous blossom ho had craved. . Me j Kvangotlna und Asenslo, bt she tilled up with rubbled.
, Nor did Bho forget Colonel Cobo. .Tlie thought .better of jr.. Although she put ercd, when she Deered.lntQ it., QtAf&foysW)?
1 1
iovh hn men had ilnir. from tin iiukfM i.. i .. i.. !, u 'ik.1 , W '
ttees they hud felled and plied in onlerly hUuectos werj compelled to live off iheJ
neaps, iruui llie sioue.s and Illollur ul
tho liousH itself. Teats blinded llosa.
After a timo sho left the black woman
mourning among tho ruins und stolu
uwfty to the sunken gulden. Here tho
liialks of vandalism weic less noticeable.
Nevertheless, few signs of beultty re.
muliied. Neglected vines dtooped spit It
lesaly from tho ledges, nuch fruit trees
us had been spared wero sickly and un-
.tended; time und the eloiuentu hud all but passed before Iille Brttucr kIm4
completed tho disheartening work, oppoitunlty of tHsting the, 'ett:W
wnt.- ..... . ... a -- ,1-J' ..JX.LZ t.-.
ino cii , rcnmineii, niinougn ji nau fin lis inn imyorwr ww,
been plankea over, but it wan partially colonel,. Jjr (He;
countiy. . j(l
vvnen uiteiuy na urancn eniisiea in .;
the Army of the Orient they were &e?j
signed tu the command of Colonel MigtMl
Iopez, und it was under his leadefspte.
lliui llioy llinur tnrit itiav i.tuuitit
with the peculiar methods of Cuban' W
fure. . , " ' -y
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