WB r m vt . . iF'JMA JiwTrw J I " ' ' v if " ' " -.;' i-l i i , Vt- - . v '' VA4HKiVv& ' fSt C 'a'faMreB.''- THEAUTOBJ $y-Gftfi HYoA PENNSYLVANIA 3y' Samuel WPcnnypackor Pennsylvania 'Most Zealous '& Cowleht. 1B17, by 1'ublla I.eds'r Comeany. O ST"" tf ,V;B 1 .. j--.y: . I'eter McCnH, Governor Penny packer's preceptor, from sketch in the collection of Hampton L. Carson CHAPTER V The Philadelphia liar ViniEN a stranger for the first time met Peter McCnll the stionie.sl V impression made upon him was that lie confronted a man instinctively a gentleman, and this impression crew with each suc ceeding interview. A descendant of George McCall, a merchant in Philadelphia Jn the early colonial period who owned MeCall's Manor at Munatawuy, 'he had a thin, Celtic face, refined by long time and, perhaps, cross breeding, with pronounced lips and chin. Slim, per haps five feet eight inches in height, he possessed a certain power of oratorical .speech and much latent combativeness. He had been Mayor' of the City, he had been a professor of law in the University of Pennsylvania. Often nominated for a judgeship in the Court of Common Pleas by the minority party, he each time failed of election, but no man could have been better fitted for the office. When clients were about to leave his inner room, after a closed interview, with the sweetest courtesy of manner he escorted them to the outer door. With timid visitors at his homo, he broached one topic of conver sation after another until he discovered the subject in which they were interested or informed, and then he sat and silently listened. Coming of n family of social importance, whose members had partici pated in the dancing Assemblies from their beginning, having in herited what he once described to me as "a little patrimony," holding n position at the bar everywhere recognized as close to the top, he had nevertheless encountered some of the adverse currents of life. He married a Southern woman, a descendant of General Hugh Mercer, who was killed at Princeton. She looked well enough and lived long, but she was either an invalid or a case of jangled ncvve. Her closet was filled with bottles of medicines which she continually absorbed. She had one of those jagged wills which often accompany such a physique. On one occasion when I was at their country home she came to me with a pair of scissors and wanted me to cut the legs off n number of "Daddy Longlegs" which had invaded her parlor. To me the proposition seemed horrible and I bluntly refused. The sympathy accorded by a husband to supposed illness is a great leverage and she influenced him in many ways to his disadvantage. She wanted the comparative importance of the Mercers to ho con ceded. She prevailed upon him to move away from the house in which he had always lived to a more heulthful locality. I know of no greater misfortune that can happen to the career of a man of ability than to be out of sympathy with his own people in a fateful crisis in which they arc right. Mr. McCall had been a Whig and had become a Democrat. Throughout the war his wife openly avowed her hope for the success of the Southern cause, and ho was frequently denounced as a Copperhead. He never mentioned the subject, but when he failed to be re-elected to the vestry of St. Peter's Church, with which ho had long been connected, and when his clients began to drop away and the students who before had striven to enter his office forsook him, intelligent and sensitive he felt the ( change keenly. At the time I entered his office the warmth of , feeling existing at the outset of the war had somewhat abated and the genuine respect for Mr. McCall had begun to revive. I reached the offices, No. 221 South Fourth street, on the west side of Fourth street below Walnut, in the early morning. They consisted of two large rooms on the ground floor. No one elso had yet arrived. Securing n book I selected a large and .comfortable chnlr, drew it to the front window, nml began my studies. Presently a tall young mnn with dark whiskers entered and coming over to me said: "It is a custom in this office that the oldest student occupies that chair and I will thank you to give it to me." I surrendered it with due meekness and had received my first lesson in discipline. The young gentleman was named J. Duross O'Brien, an earnest, good-hearted and agreeable fellowi His aunt, a prosperous milliner, educated him. The old-time ways still prevailed intho office and the students were expected to run errands and to respond when called upon for any sort of manual assistance. Instead of mailing his letters, Mr. McCall would say in his blandest manner: Mr. , 1 wis.li that on your way home this evening you will bo good enough to deliver these letters." Once O'Brien said to him by way of protest: "Mr. McCall, is it the custom for students in a lawyer's office to carry letters?" "I think it is, Mr. O'Brien," and thereafter whenever a letter was deliverable at any unusual dis tance this particular student was pretty sure to get it. Some times he stayed away for days to avoid the letters, but these tactic were met by accumulation. Once O'Brien, who was not altogether refined, stood before Mr. McCall, who was the expression of delicate and perfect culture, being instructed upon some subject. In his pocket was a box of matches ready for the after-lunch cigar. In iis pocket was also his hand fumbling the matches. Suddenly they were ignited. "Damn it to hell!" ejaculated O'Brien. He afterward went out to New Mexico, where 1 believe he achieved ronsidorable success. The Student's Associates With Edward S. Harlan, student of a different type, 1 estab lished a warm and lasting friendship. Lame in one foot, nntuie more than made up for the defect by giving him a handsome, strong face adorned with a graceful mustache. He had a good heart and a nimble wit. Once some one was endeavoring to twit me with being a countryman' and inquired: "Do the people live in houses in that section of the State?" "The chiefs do," interjected Harlan. He died only too early of angina pectoris, which he bore with the utmost patience, and left an attractive daughter who1 married Samuel Wagner. Charles M. Walton, a scion of one of the Quaker families of the State, fond of literature and appreciating its beauties with correct taste, a friend of Oliver Wendell Holmes, who often visited him, was also reading law at the time. Entirely too gentle and possessing too much sensibility to meet the buffets which ho encounters who enters upon the practice of the law, he was beloved by all who knew him and soon died. Of another mould was S. Davis Page, .who harked back to the Byrds of Wcstover and other noted Virginia families. He had married and gone to Europe to escape the animosities which had to be borne by those of Southern sympathies in tho early days of the war, but had returned to complete his studies. His studies had been too much interrupted to enable him to become profoundly learned in the law, but he had no intention of being set uside and life had much in store for him. He secured a fair practice and con tended on behalf of his clients pugnaciously. Ho entered politics on tho Democratic side, sat in the City Councils and became City Treasurer. His social success was pronounced, and his son, William Byrd Page, in his day at the University of Pennsylvania held the world's record for high jumping. A little later John Sword came into the office. He hud great aptitude for the law and was besides a cIomj student. Mr. McCnll thought so well of him that he took him, after admission to tho bar, into some of his cases. Sword, after editing some volumes of reports, abandoned the law and as I have written became a devotee. He went to Oxford University and, entering the ministry, appeared later as the highest of high church Episcopalians. His life thereafter was spent in genuflexions and self-abnegation. Fond of the society of i women, ho refused marriage. Attracting tho attention of Mrs. Pa ran Stevens, the widow of tho Hoboken millionaire, she wanted to do much for him, but he sought work in tho slums and among the poor and the lowly. He left the courts literally to fall upon his knees. Life is filled with strange contrasts. Before my time Mr. McCall had a pet student who married well,. lived well, held his head high in society and in tho end robbed the e.itates entrusted to him, forged mortgages and ran away to a remote country disappearing in the darkness. A Visit From Ingersoll Among the students I was the only one who had not graduated from soniu college, but three months hud not gone by before they all habitually came to mo for help when they were puzzled over the Norman French of Littleton and the Latin citations of tho law book". I went to the office sometimes as early as G o'clock n the mornings. When the rest went away for their vacations in the summer I had the office to myself. I read tho course prescribed, and very much more the whole of Coke's commentaries on Littleton, the three volumes of Addison on Contracts, Fearnc on Remainders, Sugden on Vendors, Sugden on Powers and I dabbled in the Year Books. One hot summer day I sat with a book in a comfortable old Spanish chair at tho window of the back room. Presently some one appeared at the door. I thought it was a tramp, the room being somewhat darkened, and I went on with my leading. Tho intruder came slowly over to my chair and said: "Will you kindly tell Mr. McCall, when lie returns, thnt Joseph K. Ingcrsoll called and that no one arose to receive him." Then he turned on his heel. The situation was uncomfortable, for Mr. McCall held him in the highest respect and so had my father, who corresponded with him. An Irish woman, named Margaret, took care of the offices. She had a son, Willie, about sixteen years of age, an only child, who grieved her heart by hunting up wild companions and getting drunk. Ashcnfelter, who had been in the office a short time with me, sud denly concluded to go on a sailing vessel around Cape Horn, and, at the suggestion of Mr. McCall, Willie went with him. Margaret sadly let him go nnd at the last moment, tying a crucifix around his throat, told him never to take it off. In a storm off the Klo de la Plata, Willie, for some purpose, went to the prow of the vessel and was washed overboard and lost. He had removed tho crucifix and it lay on the deck. I still have it, and his poor mother never knew this part of tho tragedy. At that time the method of training lawyers for the work of the profession was to have the student read upon the subject in the office of a practicing attorney and under his direction and to have his progress ascertained by occasional examinations. The leading was confined almost exclusively to dissertations upon the law and text books and there was little or no reference to particular cases. A principle was affirmed and if a case was cited it was us an olucidution of that principle. The judges weic presumed to have known it and to have decided accordingly. Tho modern doctrine of the creation of law by the decisions of courts and the consequent importance of tho study of cases had either not arisen or was only in its incipiency. In Mr. MeCall's office wo learned nothing of cases, and I have many a time wondered what I should do if perchance in the future an actual case should ever come to me. While I was with him Mr. McCnll gave up his home, took his family, or was taken by them, to the western part of the city and removed his offices to a two-story brick building on the rast side of Fo-irth street. It illustrates the relation of his students to him that they carried in baskets all of his large library and the other necessary articles to the new location. The relation to the client was also quite different from that which we now see, and instead of being a mere matter of business was in part, at least, friendly and paternal. One of Mr. MeCall's clients, a little old man, to whom he showed murked attention, called Joseph Andrade, always with each Christmas brought him a turkey. Once I hardily went to him and said: "Mr. McCall, 1 want to lead the works of Spinoza and Des cartes and they are not in the Mercantile Library where I have a share; could I get them from the Philadelphia Library on vour share?" Ho was deeply religious and piobably felt that he ought not to eiK-ourugc u young man in dipping into that sort of philosophy. At all events, he did not assent. 1 read the books, nevertheless, and added to them Locke, Hamilton, Hobbes, Hume and Spencer. Getting Acquainted Through one summer I boarded in n Pennsylvania Dutch hotel on the east side of Third street near Callowhill, patronized alono by tho clerks of merchants and by farmers coming into town. It was an interesting experience. I hud a little room in the third story with one small window, a bed, a bowl and basin on a rough stand, two Windsor chairs, a strip of rag carpet along the bed and no other furniture, except a Jordan. In the dining room wo sat on stools at a long table. There were not, however, stools enough for all the guests, and as a result there had to bo two services, and those who QjtZ -'.. -?" 0S ,T A vca t"fr .. lfc- ' . . -7 s 2wIw- sK. fiS. .-: & t:S--s ?,- '.. y: - ;-- yC-ry Z. -y 'Zytr ;vsv ri 'V -S?. 'r -.Si r S& S tfxSi. r s ff v ' j l WS JU A-jCptgeTZ. A military order signed by General Washington hile oncamped at Pennypncker's Mills. It tuys: "Sir You are hereby authorized to impress all the blankets, shoes, stock ings and other articles of clothing that can be spared by the Inhabitants of the County of Lancaster for the use of the Continental Army, p..yiug for the same at reasonable rates or giving certificates. Ghen at camp of Pennypncker's Mills this 27th day of September, 1777. To William Henrj, Esq., Lancaster." i&itjy m ' ".- v-m j:r ;v,mi teiXMX&i$ mm PtM!v5ftSr Ei&$ti&K3 IOT VA nZjftjr? L! .as 'O ti .m': xr .k. r jkc "jm VojmSX jKWy "V !' j i i't' - c 1. ti .. r.:Jv?-& 7" ! 'm A sampler made by Governor Pcnnypacker's mother in s 1821, when she was nine years old. did not find a stool at the first opportunity must wait until the more fortunate were fed and another outfit made ready. When tho gong sounded the doors were thrown open, there was a rush for the stools, in which men wore jammed and clothes torn, and when the stools were filled the doors weie again closed. I met some young men here who succeeded in life and whoso paths again crossed mine. On Sun days I went to Franklin Square, and sitting on a bench there read Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Koman Empire." ' Ashcnfelter, who had graduated at Dickinson College, had come to the city to read law, and together wo rented tho front room at No. 520 Spruce street from u Mrs. Wilson, the widow of a newspaper editor. It was modest enough, but kept bright and cleanly, and the impression even today is one of luxurious enjoyment. Wc ate our meals at tho boarding house of a Mrs. Lydia Foster, on Sixth street below Locust. Wc culled it the "Foster Home." Into the boarding house had been swept by the tides of misfortune Ann Kittern, a daughter of the noted Congressman, John W. Kittern, and related to the family of Governor Simon Snyder. Her gantility of manner, her faded finery of clothing nnd the furrows on her withered cheek3 all told the same tale, and unconsciously each one of the household showed to her respect and called her "Mit.s Ann." Three young men from among those who gathered at that inexpensive table, two stu dents of medicine and one of law, met together many years later as pallbearers at the funeral of the famous surgeon, Dr. D. Hayes Agnew Dr. Roland G. Curtin, Dr. De Forrest Willard and myself. Another boarder was John Thompson Spencer, then a student of law, who later married the only daughter of John William Wallace, one of my predecessors as president of the Historical Society of Penn sylvania, and who now entertains the European nobility when they come to Newport. With a Frenchman at the table I began to talk French, and thereafter our conversations were conducted solely in that language. About this tima I made the acquaintance of J. Granville Leach, .ho son of a Baptist preacher at Cape May, who was reading law in the office of Byron Woodward. The resources of Loach, like those of the rest of us, were nuriov, and he slept in the office. Leach introduced me into tho Law Academy and at his suggestion I, while yet a student, in lSO.'i, was elected it3 assistant secretary. I, therefore, owe to Leach my first professional recognition. Through two winters I attended the law lectures at tho University of Penn sylvania by Judge George Sharswood, P. Pembcrton Morris and E. Spencer Miller, paying to each of them ?G0 for the two termstof tho year. Miller had the reputation of being the least capable lawyer and the best lecturer. A nervous, combative little man, he had a practice which, it was supposed, netted him $110,000 a year andt hud made him i ich. When he died he left nothing behind him in the way of un estate. Sharswood had one of those kindly disposi tions which made everybody fond of him. With young men he was ever gentle, and late in life he afforded' the pathetic spectacle of a father watching through the night for the incoming of an only son whoso wildness and waywardness he over condoned. He had no piesencc, no voice and a troubled utterance. He suffered much from a physical cause, and in the trial of cases paced slowly up and down behind tho bench. Later he became Chief Justice of the Common wealth and, after a career of great distinction, died universally, esteemed and leaving his edition of Bluckstone for the instruction of the profession. The lectures were delivered in the building on the west side of Ninth street, north of Chestnut. When I was grad uated as a Bachelor of Laws we had no commencement save that I called, with others, und was given my diploma. ' I was admitted to the bar in May, I860. On the board of examiners sat George W. Biddlc and William Henry Rawle, among others, and John Cadwalader, Jr., acted as sepretary. They made an entry on their minutes that I had passed tho best examination which had come before them during their term, much to the delight of Mr. McCall as well as melf. Biddle, long regarded as the loader of the bar, never forgot me and frequently recalled the impression of me then made. In the tiial of cases he had a nervous habit of raising one hand and lubbing tho buck of it with the palm of the other, and he always spoke impressively. He had three sons, all of them lawyers, and it wus his sad fute to see them all die in young manhood. dU.VTIM Kl) J!OM-A) 'A '41 ' S'l -J & ."m ,. fM ,",1 i'l V . M - jpi RAINBOW'S END Jf eF By REX BEACH Author of "The Spol!rV "Th Ilarrlfr." "Heart of the Sumet." ?3 St A novel of love, hidden treasure and rebellion in beautiful, mys terious Cuba during the exciting days of the revolt against Spain. Copyright. 1017, Harper Urol. CHAPTER XXI (Continued) TT was a litdeous story, n. story of rape, X murder. I wonder that I didn't go mad. It never occurred to me to doubt, nnd, an a matter of fact, tho fellow was honest enough ; ho really J)ollaed what hu told me. Well, I was norry I hadn't dlml that iilnht In tho sunken road. All tho hope, nil the deslro to live, went out of mo. Vou soe, I had been (npro than half expecting Komcthlng of :the vklnd. Kvery time I had left Kova It bad been with tho Klukenlnic ar that I might never pee her aenlu. After tho man had finished 1 felt tho deHlra to Ket av.ay from nit I had known and loved, to leava Matanzas for new fields and Klvo what was loft of mo to the cause. "I presume Alberto nnd tho girls wcro relieved to set rid of me, for It meant rnoro food for them. Anyhow, between us we prevailed upon the messenger to tnl mo along. I vas free to enlist, since t couldn't reach Coper, and I cama to join our forces In the Orient. ; The End of the Story "That Is how you found.mo In this province. Lopez's man never dclleied those dispatches, for wo were taken cross Ine the trcicha at least, 1 was taken, for Ptlblo was killed, They'd have made uu end ot me, too, I daro say, only 1 was so weak sit seenis a century since that iilnht. My,ttpemory doesn't sere mo ery well from rbcn:pointi for they jailed me, und I Brow VOrle ' , , , , , . l u-an not nf mv head a cood'deaL' I seem to remember a stockade soinewfieio and me, Unn know how I cot there, and I never heard of the place." . "It wllb probably all coma back to you In time" nald O'ltcllfy. "no doubW The two men fell silent for a while, Kste. ban lay with doted eyes, exhausted. O'Hellly cave himself up to frowning thought. His thoughts wore not pleasant; be could not. for the life of him, believe In Uosa's safety so Implicitly as he had led Ksteban to suppose; hs efforts to uheer tho other had sapped his own supply of hope, le:lng hlin u, prey to black misgivings. Ha wns glad when Norlne Kvuna's return put an end to his speculations. Ksteban was right; the girl did have an unusual ability to banish shadows, u splen did pouer t rout devils both of the spirit and of the flesh; sho was a sort of anti body, destroying every noxious or un healthy thing mental or physical with which she came In contact. This blessed capabil ity was quite distinct from, her skill with medicines It was a gift, nnd bh much a pntt ofi her hs the healing magic which dwells In thp sunshine, , t..'' i : vv.'"iJ ..v., .,..-w.. v. .... ..... .,.-.,... ...... I'Vvrf nrengtl irom nor own ununouni giors nnu n to reniemuer a siocKauo soinewncie other prlsonersj some.gf whom, nursed You say ,you found mo In u'cell In Antonio dH los Hnn. Well, I don't sho had brought him back from tho very oids, It was ciultc uatuial. theroforo. that she should take n prldo In her work arid regard him with a cot tain Jealous proprietary Interest; It wasvequally natural that he should claim thu greater share uf her attention. "Have you harrowed this poor man's feeling sutllclently for oncei" she Inquired of O'Hellly. "I hau-. I'll iigreo t talk about noth ing unpleasant hereafter" Kstrhaii turned to his nurse. Inquiring, abruptly, "Do you think ltosa Is alfvo?" "Why, of course I do! Aren't you ullvo and almost well?" Now, as an argument, thero was no par ticular force In this suggestion; neverthe less, both men felt reassured. KHtollan heaved a grateful sigh. After n moment ho said. . "Thcro Is something I want to' tell sou both." "Walt until tomorrow." Norlno advised, Hut he persisted ''No! t must tell It now, V'lrst, hottccr, did cither of you dls ccner un old coin In any of my pockets an old Spanish doubloon?" "That doubloon ngaln!" Norino lifted her hands protestlngly, und cast a meaning look at O'Hellly. "You talked ubout nothing else for a whole week. Let mo feel your pulse." Ksteban surrendered his hand with sus picious readiness. "Vuu wero flat broko'when we got you." O'Hellly declared, 'Trobably. I seem to remember that somebody stole it." Treasure "Doubloons! Pieces of eight! tioldcu guineas!" exclaimed Norlne. "Why thoio are pirate poliis! They remind mo or Treasure Island ; of Long Jdhn Silver and his wooden leg; of Hen (Sunn und ull tho test," With u voice made hoarse, doubt less to imitate tho old nut-brown seamun with tho saber scar and tho tarry pigtail, who sat sipping his rum und water In tho Admlrul Henbow Inn, she began to chant; t "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink und the devil had done for tho'rest; Yo-ho-ho; and a bottlo of rum 1" Ksteban smiled uncomprehendlngly: 'Yes? Well this has to do with treasure. That doubloon was a part of tho lost treas ure of the Varonas." "Lost treasure!" Norlne a gray . eyes widened. "What are you talking about?' "Thero Is a mysterious fortune In our family. 11 y father buried It. He was very rich, you know, and he was ufrald of the Spaniards: O'Hellly knows the story." Johnnie assented with u grunt. 'Sure! I know Hit about it." Ksteban raised himself to Jus elbow. "You think It's a myth, a Joke. Well, It's not. 1 know where It is. I found It!" Norlne gasped ; Johnnie spoke soothingly: "Don't get excited, old man; you've talked too much today," "Ha!" Ksteban fell back upon his pil low, "t haven't any fever. I'm eano aa - '",4iivr :bwn betterliQWHthp,n In Ksteban'a low. "I, haven'); any fever. I'm eano aa . Hoar, for .wit olW nynifJjitat assistance ever' Vwatv Thatre.isurt exists, and that doubloon gae mo the due to Its where abouts. I'micho Cueto knew my father, and ho believed the story. He believed In It so strongly that well that's why hu do nounied my slsKr and inu us traitors. He dug up our entlio premises, but ho didn't Und It." Ksteban chuckled. "Don Ksteban, my father, was cunning; ho could hide things better than u imtgiile. It remained for mo to dI'oer his trick." Norlne Kvauy siinko breathlessly, "on, glory! Treasure! Ileal treasure! How pel fectiy ocltlng! Tell mo how you found It quick! Johnnie, you icmeinbcr he lined bout a doubloon- ' "He Is raving now," O'Hellly declared, with u shall- stare at his frit ml. Tho gill turned loyally to her patient. "I'll bcllevo you, Mr. Vuiona I nlwuys be lieve ewrythlng about hurled treasure. Tho bigger tho treasure the mrro Implicitly I bellevo In It. I simply adore plroteu and such things; If I were u man I'd be one. Do j on knowi I've ulwas been tempted to bury my money und then go look for It," "You'ro making fun of me. What?" Ksteban eyid the pair doubtfully. "No, no'." Norino was Indignant. "Johnnlo doexn't bellevo m pirates or treas. ure, or anything. Ho doesn't een believe In fairies, and he's Irish, too. Hut I do. I revel In t?uch things. If you don't go on, I'll blow up," "There Is no doubt that my father bad n great deal of money ut one time." Ksteban begun; "he wus the richest man In the richest city of I'uba and " O'Hellly shook his head dubiously and braced his back ugainst a tree-trunk ; there was u look of mild disapprobation on his luce ns he listened to the familiar story of Don Kftchan and the slave, Sebastian, Young Ksteban told the tale well. Ills own fulth In It lent a certain convincingness to his words und Norino Kvuns hung upon them entranced. She wus horritled at the account of Don Ksteban's death ; her eyes grew dark as Ksteban told of his and Hosa's childhood with their avaricious stepmother. That part of the narrative which had to do with tho death of Dona Isabel nnd tho finding of the gold coin was now to O'Hellly und lie found himself considerably lin uressed by It. When Ksteban had finished Norlne drew a deep breath. "Oh! That lajs over any story I ever heard. To think that the deeds and the Jewels and everything are in the well at this minute! How could you go away and leave them?" "I didn't think It out nt the time. I didn't evolve my theory until after I had tied. Naturally, I wasn't able to get .back." "But suppose somebody tlnds It?" Norlne was aghast at the thought, ' "Not much chance of that. The treasure has lain there for a generation, and the stofy Itself is almost forgotten." Ksteban turned triumphantly to O'Hellly saying, "ow then, do you think I'm so era xv?" O'Hellly didn't hve It In his heart to say exactly what ho really thought. The clr nmstnnces of the discovery of tho ciln were r.,1,1 iMiouch. certainly, but it seemed to him that they were capable ot several explana- tlons If, indeed, tln-ro had ever been u doubloon and If Ksteban had found It In the dead hand of his stepiuuthei, that, 111 o'Kellly's opinion, by no means proved Iho existence of tho mythical Vuronu hoaio. nor did It solvo the stcret of Its where abouts. Wh'U he more than half suspected was that some fa voted fancy had found lodgment In Kstcban's bruin The l'romise "It's uu Interesting theorj," ho admitted, "Anihou, there Is no danger of tho treas ure being uncovered ery soon. Cueto had u good look and made himself ridiculous. You'll have uniple cliunce to do likewise when the war Is over." "Vou muni help mo Mud It," said Ksteban. "Wc shall ull shure the fortuno equally, you two. Itiuu und I." "Wo? Why should wo rharo In It?" Norino asked. "I owe It tu j ou. Didn't O'Hellly rescue mo from u dungeon? Haven't you nursed inn back f health? Don't 1 owe my life to you both !" "Nonsense ! I, for one. shan't take a dollar of It," the girl declared. "All I want to do is help dig, If you'll Just prom ise to let me da that " "I promise. And you bhnll have one fourth of everj thing" "No! No!" "Oh, but u must. A Insist Nursing Is u poorly paid profession. Wouldn't you like to be rich?" "Profession! I'oorly paid? Norlne sput tered, ungilly, "As If I'd take pay!" "As If I would accept a great service and forget It. like some miserable beggar!" Ksteban replied, stlllly. O'Hellly laughed out. "Don't let's quarrel over the spoil until we get It," said hi.. "That's the way with all treasure-hunters. They Invariably fall out and go to righting. To avoid bloodshed, I'll agree to sell my Interest cheap for cash. Come! What will vou bid? Start It low. Do r hear a dollar bid? A dollar! A dollar! A dollar! My share of the famous Yarona fortune going for a dollar !" 'There! He doesn t believe a word of It," Ksteban said, Norlne gave an Impatient shrug. "Some people wouldn't believe they were alive un less iney bw ineir oreatu on a loosing "News' Kroin Matunzas!" ho tried. "Ciniue4'h man has m rived." Ksteban struggled to rise, but Norino io strained him "Itot-u! What does he sa .' Quick'" "CjoocI news' She left tlio l'an de Mutun 7as with the two negroes She went Into the city in fore folio's in'd." Ksteban collapsed limply. Ho closed bis eves, his face wus very white. He crossed himself weukl. "The letter is definite It seems thev weie starving. They obejed cylern bundo. They're In Mutanzus now. "Do you hear. Ksteban?" Norlne shook her patient by the shoulder. "She's alive, Oh. can't jou we that It always pays to believe tho best?" "Alive! Safo'" Ksteban whispered. His ejes, when he, opened them, were swim ming; he clutched Norlnn's bund tightly; his other hand ho extended to O'Hellly. Tho Intter was choking! his cheeks, too. were wet. "A reconcentrudo! In Matunxas! Well, that's good. We have friends thero--they'll not let her starve. This makes a new man of me. See! I'm strong aguln. I'll go to her." . "You'll go?" quickly cried Miss Kvuns. "You'll go ! You'ro not strong enough It would bo suicide. You, with u price upon your hoad! Kvervbody knows you there. Matauzas Is virtually u walled city. There s sickness, too yellow fever, typhus " "Kxuctly. And hunger, also Suppose no one has taken ltosa in? Those con centration camps aren't nice places lor a girl." "Hut wait! I lmvo friends in Washing ton, They'll' Influential. They will cable the American consul to look ufter her Anyhow, you mustn't think ot leturnlng to Matanzas," Norlne faltered ; her voice caught unexpectedly and sho turned her faco away. O'Helly nodded shortly, "loure a sick man," he agreed. "There's no need for both of us to go." Ksteban looked up, "Then you" "I leave at once. The Old Man has given me a commission to Generil Iletan court, und I'll be on my way In un hour. The moon Is young ; I mubt cross the trochu before" "That trocha!" Ksteban was up on his elbow ugaln. "Be cureful there, O'Hellly. irlass. (loodness ! How I hate a sneering Thev keen a sharo lookout, and Its guarded skeptic, u wet blanket." with barbed wire. Be sure you cut every O Helliy rose wnn one arm snieiuing nis strand. Yes, anu mumo your nurses noois. fin,,. "In tba Interest of friendship I withdraw. A curse on these burled treas ures, anyhow. We shall yet come to blows."1 As he walked away he heard Norlne say; "Don't pay any attention to him. We'll go and dig It up ourselves, and we won't wait until the war Is over," An hour later Ksteban and his nurse still had the(r heads together. They were ctllt talking of golden ingots and pearl from the Caribbean the size of plums wheii, they looked up to see O'Hellly running toward them. He was visibly excited: ho waved ana snouted at tnem. tie was pant too, on crossing the railroad track. That's how we were detected. Pablo's horse struck a rail, and they fired at the sound. He fell at the first volley, riddled. Oh, I know that trocha t" "Damn the trocha!" O'Hellly exclaimed. "At last I've got a chance to do something. God! How long I've waited." Ksteban drew O'Hellly's tense form down and embraced his friend, after the fashion of his people. "She has been waiting, too," he said, huskily, "We Varonas are good waiters, O'Reilly. Hoaa will never cease waiting until jou come. Tell her. for me'' There were a lump In her throat and n pain In her breast Sho had aciulnd a pecul iar und affectionate Interest In this un happy girl whom she hud never seen, nnd she hud learned to respect O'Helllj's love The j earning that had pulsed In his voice a moment before had stirred her deeply ; It uwoke a throb in her own bosom, for O'Hellly wus dear to her She wanted him to go, yet she knew the hazards that ho In his way If, Indeed, the ghl weie In Muliinzas, how, Norino asked herself, was It possible for him to reach her? That O'Hellly hud some mud design was evident, that he would utter!) dlsiegard his own safety sho felt sure. Hut that he would meet with failure, perhupi worse, seemed equally certain. Matunzas wus u beleag ured city, nnd strangers could not enter or leave It nt will If ltosa hud not put her self behind prison vvulls, If she weie still In hiding somewhere on the Island, it would be u simple matter to seek her 6ut. But Ma tanzas, of a 1 places ! ' Then, too, the pucltiax. according to, ull reports, were dying like tiles lu the prleon t'unuiH, Norlne wondered If there might not be u tenlble heartache ut the end of O'Hellly's quest? Her fure was grave and worried when, hearing htm speak to her, hhe turned to take his outstretched hand, "Vou will be careful, won't yuu" sho Im plored "And jou'll be stout of heuit, nu mutter whnt occurs?" Ho nodded. "It's u long vvaj back here to t'ubltas. You may not see or hear from me again." tf "l understand " She choked miserably "You mean you may not coma back. Oh, Johnnie!" "Tut, tut! We O'Helllys have moio lives than n litter of cats. I meun I may not sect sou until the war Is over and we meet In .New York, Well, we've been good pals, and I'm glad you came to Cuba," Ills grasp upon her two hands was painful, "You must go. I know, and I wouldn't try to keep you, but " Norlne faltered. then Impulsively she drew him down und kissed him full upon the lips. "Kor Rosa !" she whispered. Her eyes were shining hs she watched hlin pass swiftly out of sight. CHAPTER XXU THE TROCHA Or ALL the military meaauies einp.ojed by the Spaniards In their wars against Cuban Independence, perhaps the most unique was the trocha trench or traverse. .uamnez usmpos auring the Ten Years' l developed to their fullest extent. Uncle? the rule of the Butcher several trochas were constructed ut selected points, and ho carried to Its logical conclus on the policy of concentration, with results sufficiently frightful to shock the world und to satisfy even Wejler's monstrous appetite for cruel ty Although bis trochas hindered the fteo movement of Cuban troops und his prison camp-) decimated the peaceful population of sevvial picv nces, tho Spanish onus ruined little. Hoth trenches nnd prison camps became Spanish grave urds. Complete Preparations Weyler's lntrenchmentH cost millions and wero elaborately constructed, belted with barbed wire, bristling with blockhouses and Jtii forts lu both the digging und the. man- fjl nlng. however, they cost uncoupled llcs. Spanish spudes turned up fevers with the soil, and, so long as raw Spanish troops were compelled to to'l In the steaming mo rasses or to lie Inactive under the sun unci the rub', thoso traitor generals June, Julv und August continued to pile up the bodies lu rotting heaps and to timber the trenches with their bonus. So long us the cities weie overcrowded with pacliVcos and their streets wore putrid with dlreuse, so long did the Spanish garrisons sicken nnd die, as files perish upon poisoned carrion. Out on the cool, clean bills und tha windy suvunnus where the Inaurrecton dwelt thero was health. Poorly armed. iffl lagged, guuut, these lusurrectos were kept (',,--V iiujvuia oy iiuiiKc-i, always moving nice i J,a cuttle on n bunen range, Uut they were i'; i healthy, for d'aease. which is soft-fooled SrlA and tenuei -bellied, couui not seep up. ' At the time Johnnie O'Hellly set out forj Mutnnzus the war a war without battle.) without victory, without defent had set-? tieci into a grim contest or. enaurance. in he cast, where the lusurrectos were virtu ally supieme. there was food of a .sort, but. .t" uejoncl the Jucaro-Moron troenu the old -,V one of C'nmis's building the rquntrv was sick, immediately west or u, in t.iut.s illxtrlut wli'ch I lie Cubans called I.iih Vlllim- '.'.' tlie land lay dying, while the entire piov-'p f Incfs, of MHtanzas, Habana und Pinar. defl 11,.. ...A..-. ul.ln.ll.I il.-J -,.i.ua ,l,ka- ..... inu ,aie viiiuii u,u. iiicdq umb wvre skeletons, picked bare of fles! by WeylerSi - linU t 'V. The, Juram-Moron trocha bad f really strengthened since Campos V( t followed the line of the translnsutar.j way. Dotted at every quarter oft-Sk-'j .niiinir ma cruatt uern lima inrra.f by telephone and telegraph lines,.' war hull, ihi, rirl. rorh ,,., 2.t ? lliese, fbrtlnas were sentry Utatlona war oullt me nrst trocha Just west Of CU- . ratlrnnri tlea. The luna-le on -! Mm. Mnnninln u-her. th u-ii. kt ,k. or rauroaa ilea, i ne ;uoie on iw- Island Is narrowest. It was CnmnnH's hm, by -means of this artlflolul barrier, to con fine the operations of the Insurgents to (he eastern end of Cuba, but in that he failed, as likewise he failed In the results, gained by b lutlo time lorta to concentrate the rural oonu. &... .... . . . ... .-.-. Line cities. .-.oi until weyiers .these two methods of paolflca-, lskjtia eanV 1A lyCnAAhia ft 1 A -bJ wuveu una snouieo. ac cnem. ne was pane- wmraii wnu ju , u , i im- :r""B - ,. n4a w iiiii,, v, ing "when he, arrived. .Norlne withdrew softly out of earshot, ttonpicha and the MriW8trtk)nan.. f1 7,-V, of the right of way had been cii&TM, ironi ine remaining stumuenna jm fallen, tree trunks hung a. maw. of Wire iturougn wmen a man coci rruwi, even in uayiisiii, .r.yas n rinra were ready, onauen wq ,i,ii1 lrni,nrrAl0'naV xraire' nu!f-lr1v i the Juoaro-Moion'tochoJ "-,' V fvwvrwimn wtvna .vv.i.fvHp. ----.q m v .. It?1 7 ' V tfWv- rv.
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