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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY or A PENN5YLVANIAN
Z?y Samuel W. Pennypackcr
Pennsylvania Most Zealous
and Energetic Governor
C6Pjrlht, lot", by Public I.eilier Compsnr
CHAPTER V (Continued)
AT A dinner, October 1, 1888, Justice iMiller, of the Supreme
. Court of the United States, gave such an interesting narrative of
a crisis in American history that I wrote it out in full at the time,
as follows:
October 1, 1888.
. Todiiy Justice Samuel V. Miller, of the Supremo Court of the
United States, delivered the opening address to the law class of
the University of Pennsylvania, and at 7 o'clock he Mit down to n
dinner at the Rittcnhouso Club, No. 1811 Walnut street, tendered to
him by the faculty of the law depnrtment of the university. There
were ut the dinner C. Stuart Patterson, George Harding, Wnyne
MacVcagh, Dr. William Pepper, Judge T. K. Finletter, Samuel W.
Pennypackcr, Dr. Jayne, Judge Henry Reed, A. Sydney Biddle,
Judge William Butler, Morton P. Henry, Judge James P. Mitchell,
George Tucker Bisphnm, Justice Miller, Richard C. McMurtrio and
Judge William McKcnna.
After wine hud to tome extent enlivened the party, the turn
taken by tho conversation made it a most Interesting event. The
Justice said that during tho war the most strenuous efforts were
made to use the court in .such it way as o embarrass the Govern
ment in its conduct of operations by endeuvor'ing to get decisions
upon such questions as the right of Mr. Seward to confine obnoxious
persons in the forts, the right of Mr. Stanton to confiscate property
of citizens in the rebellious States, etc. One lawyer from Mississippi
spent about two years in endeavoring,. in various ways, to get a de
cision upon some case of this kind. Once upon an application to
ndvance n habeas corpus case the court seemed inclined lo take tho
action. The Justice took occasion to see a friend of Justice Nelson
and tell him that it would depend upon how Nelson voted as to
whether the case should be advanced upon the list, and since it was a
matter simply of the methods and administration of tho business of
the court, it did not seem improper to talk to him about its effect
on public affairs. Nelson afterward voted against tho advancement.
The Justice did more to prevent interference by the court than per
haps any other member of it. This brought up the subject of Jere
miah S. Black. The Justice said: "Black, as a man, was simply
abominable, but there was no one who appeared before the court
lo whom it was so agreeable to listen. In hearing him you felt that
you did not care n damn whether he was talking about his case or
about any other case, hut there was a wealth of illustration, a knowl
edge of the Bible and of Shakespeare wrought into his arguments
which made you feel that you would like him to go on forever. On
one occasion he had a case arising under the Civil Rights Bill from
South Carolina, in which, characterizing the position of the other
side, he said that there was no decision in any court in Christendom
which would justify it. He then renched into his pocket for his
silver tobacco box, which was always there, look it out slowly, put
into his cavernous jaws a mass of the tobacco and, as if it had just
occurred to him, continued. "Yes, there is one case which may
apply. It is that of Dido vs. Carthago. There, you remember, the
land was bought by hides and the amount was determined by o
many covering the ground. It occurred to one casuist there that
the hides might bo cut in strips and more land be got under them
in that way. Now that case may be an authority for the other side.
"He never was a sound lawyer. When he first came down to
Washington he had only been in the habit of getting ten and fifteen
dollar fees, but he soon found that he could get almost any sum and
he afterward charged enormous fees.
"Toward the latter part of the time he used to argue for the
listeners and pay less attention to tho law and would maneuver so
as to postpone his cases until there were hearers. We humored
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given to the United States Supreme Court in the Academy
of Music on the morning of September 15, 1887, during the
Constitutional Centennial celebration.
him, more or less, in the matter. After the icport of the Electoral
Commission he, for the purpose of abusing us. appeared before the
Commission. He said the most dreadful things. If it had been a
court ho would have been locked up for contempt. I would have
locked him up for contempt within ten minutes after he began. Judge
Strong, who had been a great friend of his, refused, afterward, for
more than n year, to recognize him. At length, when Strong was
going to Europe, Black wrote to me snying that what he had paid
was in a public capacity, that I had not taken personal offense at
it, and asking me whether I would not see Strong and endeavor to
present it to him in this light. 1 did so, and they became reconciled.
The more outrageous things Black said never were printed."
Judyv Strong anil Wayne MacVcagli
This brought up MacVcagli. who said with an assurance which
is natural to him: "Strong felt it because he could not rid himself
of the idea that lie was sitting as Judge of a Couit, which was a
great mistake. You took the sensible view of it. You always
recognized that you veio not then; as a Judge at all." "I was
there," replied the Justice, "as if I were a Judge to decide the
matter as nearly according to the law as it could be done and to do
justice." "There is no use in disguising tho fact," said MacVcagli.
"that the Commission was in no sense a Court. The Commission
decided in favor of Hayes, and when I went down to New Orleans
at the head of the MacVcagli Commission 1 oerrulcd them." "What
is your view of the law of the matter, MacVeigh?" inquired tin
Justice. "When 1 went down there," said MacVcagli, "1 found that
everything, in fact, was under the control of the Nichols government.
When a child was born he was registered by an officer under Nichols.
When ho died, probate was granted by an ofiicinl appointed by the
Nichols government. Marriage certificates were taken out in its
name. I established it, dV jure as well as de facto. With a grim and
resolute President like Grant, with a Secretary of War like my
brother-in-law, not overscrupulous, with an army oflicor like Sheri
dan, with a icturning boaid not overset upulous, if the Republicans
could not get a majority of more than eight thousand, there was not
much in their position."
The Justice said:
"The Constitution of Louisiana provided jears before that there
should be a leturning board empowered to count the votes and deter-
mine the result. It seems to have been foreseen that there might
conic a time when force might be used in an election, and this was
the means provided foi meeting it. We considered that this was a
subject within the control of the State. To permit Congress to
determine the vote would have resulted in the destruction of tho
Government. That body never acts judicially. It would be like their
determination upon the rights to seats, which arc invariably decided
in favor of those in sympathy with tho majority. So it would be in
the case of a President. There was- no doubt fraud in Louisiana, as
there was also tho use of force. But our view was that the State
must regulate the casting and the counting of the vote. It had de
veloped this plan and had the power to do it. Wc saved the country
at that time from anarchy, and theje has been little recognition of
our service. The Democrats abused us, and the Republicans have
never come to our defense.
"Many Democrats have thanked me since for preserving this
right to the States. There is more appreciation of it among the
Democrats than among the Republicans. But unquestionably it was
a grave crisis happily surmounted."
MacVeagh's attack did not meet the approval of those present,
and Judge Mitchell said, hardly in undertone; "I have a good deal
of patience, but it provokes me; it is as much as I can stand to sit
here and listen to MacVeagh talking his Independent Republican
politics."
The Constitution of tho United States having been adopted in a
convention held in Philadelphia in 1787, and fiom the national point
of view this being the most impoitnnt event in our history, it was
determined to celebrate the centennial anniversary in a fitting manner
in 1SS7. J. Granville Leach offered a resolution in the Law Acad
emy that the Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States be entertained by the bar of tho city.
The project took shape. McMurtrio was made- chairman, Joseph B.
Townscnd, treasurer, and Pennypackcr, secretary, of a committee to
cany out the plan, but Leach and I did nil the work. We gathered
in the subscriptions by personnl solicitation at $10 each, and made
tho arrangements. We gave the Justices :i breakfast in the foyer of
the Academy of Music on the 15th of Sc-embor, at which tho Chief
Justice, Morrison R. Waite; Richard j. McMurtrio, Judge J. I.
Clark Harp, president judge of the Court of Common Pleas No. 2;
Justice Kdw.it d M. I'axson, of the Supremo Court of Pennsylvania;
the Honorable W. S. Kirkpatrick, Attorney General of Pennsyl
nnia, and John Sergeant Wise, of Virginia, made, speeches. Society
ladies sat in the adjoining room and ate, drank, chatted and listened.
In connection with tho same celebration, the learned societies
of Philadelphia, including the University of Pennsylvania, the His
torical Society of Pennsylvania and the American Philosophical
Society, gave a dinner in the Academy of Music on the 17th of
September which was perhaps the most imposing function that ever
occurred m the United States. The subscription price was 525 a
plate. The menus were entirely etched and cost ?3 each. Dr. Wil
liam Pepper, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, appeared
the most conspicuously and Frederick D. Stone furnished tho mo
tive power. I was chairman of cho executive committee. The Presi
dent of the United States, Grover Cleveland; the Vice President, the
Chief Justice, the Secretaries of War and of the Navy, the general
of the army, Philip H. Sheridan; the English Ambassador, Sir Lyon
Playfair; tho French Ambassador, the Marquis de Chambrun; tho
Goernors of many of the States, with Senators, Congressmen, men
of science and of letters, thoroughly representing the activities of
tho whole country, took part in the dinner. Mrs. Clcvlcand, who
had been recently married and who was in the pride of her youth
ful beauty anil popularity, held n reception in the corridors, where
ladies and gentlemen listened to the proceedings, watched the move
ments and decorations and wished for the terrapin. I wrote little
books describing these banquets, and both of them were subsequently
printed. My connection with thefe affairs and the correspondence
necessarily conducted brought mc temporarily into almost intimate
association with the Chief Justice and other members of tho Su
preme Court. Waite was a dark-eyed, good-looking man, well
groomed, with much courtesy of manner, but he made no other im
pression on me.
As it happened, a few months later, for the first time in my life,
I had three cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, and I
wont down to Washington, having arranged with a friend at our
bar to move for my admission. He failed to appear. Seeing Gen
eral Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts, looking old, stout,
weather-beaten, but sturdy, with his twisted eye fastened on a brief,
I went over to him and said:
"General, you do not know me, but you did know my cousin,
General Pennypacker, who fought in your command on the James.
I have been disappointed in not finding a Philadelphia lawyer here
whom I had expected to see and I should be much pleased, as well as
honored, if you would move for my admission."
He turned that eye on me a little athwart and said n little
gruffly: "But tho rule requires a personal acquaintance. Do you
know no one here?"
"Oh, yes; I know all of the court."
Just then the Justices filed in nnd each of them in turn nodded
to me with a smile, a recognition unusual in court and accorded
to no other man there.
"I shall be glad to make the motion," said the General, and
at Pennypackcr's Mills, along with the paper3 and letters that
relate to tho two banquets, is the parchment scroll that certifies my
admission to prnctico in the Supreme Court of tho United States
on the motion of Benjamin F. Butler, Esq.
CHAPTER VI
Litterateur and Bookhunter
TVTV GREAT-GRANDFATHER, Matthias Pennypackcr, had a repu
tation for vigorous and apt expression. Since his day the faculty
has manifested itself in a number of his descendants. Judge Henry
C. Conrad, of Wilmington, Del.; Charles H. Pennypacker, the
Burgess of West Chester; Elijah F. Pennypackcr, Canal Commis
sioner of Pennsylvania, with Thaddcus Stevens; Dr. Nathan A.
Pennypacker, member of Assembly in 186C, and my father havo
shown the gift of speech in moro than the ordinary measure. My
brother, Isaac R. Pennypackcr, who wrote the accepted life of Gen
eral George G. Meade, has written poems which caught the atten
tion of Longfellow and were included in his "Poems of Places" and
other verso which Edward Clarence Stcdman said was superior
in merit to his own efforts.
I began to write in my childhood and to make speeches in my
early youth. At twenty-four I wrote an epic poem upon the war,
giving in somber ond gloomy tones the incidents of tho sad careers
of Josiah White nnd his sweetheart, with the scene laid at Phoenix
villc along the French Creek nnd the Schuylkill River. I give below
a piece of early occasional verso; a tribute to My Mother; and a
sonnet to Lloyd Mifflin, written within the Inst few years. Somo of
my translations of German hymns may bo found in Brumbaugh's
"Christopher Dock," in my "Pennsylvania in American History," and
a translation from the German verse of Pastorius was set to music
by the Orpheus Club of Philadelphia and" sung two winters at the
Academy of Music.
To the verse above mentioned I select another to be included in
this narrative. The Haslibncher hymn, written in tho sixteenth
century and published in the Ausbund, a hymn book of tho Mennon
itcs which has gone through eight editions In America and is still
used among the Amish of Lancaster County, always made a strong
impression upon mo because of its dramatic power and simplicity.
It has many of the features of the ballad literature and of tho
Xibrlungcnlied. I translated it from the German when at Harris,
burg in tho midst of my first session of the Legislature as a sort
of relief from tho onerous pressure of new and difficult duties. The
translation preserves the rhyme, meter and versification, and to
certain extent maintains the spirit of the original.
XANTHIPPE
(Sola)
The tea of jarbs that cured lny mother must
Havo lost Its virtue, opodeldoc don't
Appear to do no pood, and what betwixt
Tho iheumotlz and Pocrates I feel
A-worrled nigh to death. Ho is the mst
Provoking man allvo I do believe.
While I am down upon my knees, and mo
All fetlfT and crippled, scrubbing oft tho floor
And trylnff hard to keep thlncs neat und clean.
Ho's gone with Alclblades and them
Old loafers wandering around the streets
To talk about philosophy. There's lot3
Of work to do in Athens ho might cct.
If ho would only try, and glvo up these
Illdlciilous notions. Then wo might live Just
As nice us other folks. There has not been
A carpat on this floor for seven years,
And whin I tell him, as I bomettmes do,
Ho says, "The gods require no carpet and,
Xanthippe, wn but imltato tho gods."
A) if that consolation wcro to mc!
What use it is to dream about old boolis
And such llko rubbish when tio flour's all gone
And mo nnd his poor children havo not got
A decent thins to wear, I do not pee.
Xow here's Rpamlnondas' punts. If I
Uac patched thorn once I've patched them forty tlmei
Until the stuffs so thin the thread won't hold.
And vet ho koch a-sncaklng through tho houpe,
His eyes lmlf shut, his thoughts Intent upon
Klyslum or somo other place, and can
N'ot sea tho boy's ashamed to turn his back
Toward any one. No wonder that I scold,
But 'tHln't a bit of use. He pays no more
Attention than a post. I might as well
no pouring water In tho Hellespont.
Ho all tho while that soft and Bheeplsh smllo
Will wear upon his face and count tho flics
Along tho wall until I stop to get
My breath, and then lio walks away without
A word. I get so mad, it makes mo feci
As If I wcro Krymneus. "Tother clay,
When I for fully half nn hour liad been
A-telllng him about tho ham wo want,
Ho stared and slowly said, "Yes, Crltias,
The cycle system must bo right." I up
And snatched tho basin of hot water that
I had to wash the dishes with and poured
The slops upon his old bald head. He wiped
His face and muttered, "When the thunders cease
Then comes tho rain." He'll be the deattyf me
I know. 4
Written hy rrqutit In early life for a public ent-rtatnnint riven at.Phoenlx
villa nt which vrere reprrientetl a number of historic women.
Mora Honjri and poems written by Corernor Pennypacker will appear
In tomorrow's Installment,
(CONTINUED TOM.OimOW)
RAINBOW'S END
By REX BEACH
Author of
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"The Spoiler"
"The turrler." "Heart of the Sunset."
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A novel of love, hidden treasure and rebellion in beautiful, mya-1
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terioua Cuba during the exciting days of the revolt against Spain.
ropjrlsht, HUT Unri'tr llrus
CHAPTER XXIII (Continued)
O'HRIMA' knew that although MaUuzas
was u pribon and a ivatholo. a girl like
Itosa would Miffer therein perils Infinitely
woro than Imprisonment or disease. It
was a thought he could not bear to dwell
upon.
S'gns of life began to appear now, the
travelers punned bmall garden patches and
occasional cultivated fle!dn; they encoun
tered loaded carts bound Into the citv. uud
onco they hid tliemelvea whllo a column
of mounted troops went by.'
O'ltellly stoj-ped to pas.1 the time of .day,
with u wrinkled rurtmau whose dejected
oxen were retting.
"Going Into tho city, arc you?" the fel
low Inquired. ".Starved, out, I suppose.
Well. It's pleasant to starvo In one place
as another."
Jacket helped himself to a stalk of cane,
from the load and began to strl'i It with
his teeth.
Into the 'City of Death
Will the soldiers allow ui to emcrV"
Johunlo Inquired. ,
"Of course. Why not?" the old man
laughed mlrthlebsly ; then his voice changed,
do back." he bald, "go back and dlo In
the ttelds. Matunias stinks of rotting
dorpbes. 0 brck where the air is clean."
lie swung his long lash over the oxen,
they leaned against the load, and the cart
creuked dismally on Its way.
It Is never difficult to enter trap, aim
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beggars !
Mataniax was precisely tnai.
soldiers everywhere,
There were
but beyond an Intllf-
bentrles 'I lipy observed silently; In aimless
bow lldei merit they bhultlcd along toward
tho lirari of tho lII. Almost before they
leallzed It they had run the rantlet and
hail Jolntd that army of misery, llftn-n
thousand strong. Thu hand of Spain had
clofed over them.
CHAPTER XXIV
KOSA
OOIC" Jacket elutiliid at O'hcllly and
pointed a bhal.lng linger. "More
Crlsto' And thoce little chil
dren!" The boy tried to I lugn. nut inn
volee cracked nervously. "Are they chil
dren or gourds with legs linear them?
O'Reilly looked, then turucd his eyes
away. Ho and Jacket had reached the
heait of Matanxas and wcro facing thu
public Hijuaie, the Plaza de x I.lbertad It
was called O'ltellly knew tho place well;
every building that flanked It was familiar
to him, from the vust, rambling Governor's
I'alaco to the ornate CibIiio Kspanol and
the (irand Hotel, and time was when ho
had been a welcome visitor nt all of them.
Hut things were different now Clone wvre
tli,i customary crowds of well-dressed, well
fed cltUens; gone the rows of carriages
which at this hour of tho dav were wont
to circle the I'laz laden with tho nrls
tocrnry of the city: gone was that nlr of
cheerfulness and substance which had lent
distinction to the place. Matanzas tip
peared poor and squalid, deprcsslngly
wretched ; Its streets were foul and the
Plaza do la I.tbertad grim mockery of a
name was crowded with a throng such an
it had never held in O'ilellly'a time, a
throng of people who were, without excep
tion, gaunt, listless, ragged. There vrai
nn afternoon nando of finery, no lauchter.
no noise; the benches were full, but their
. " . .i...ii..,.. Vu tlie miter blni klioliiu. ii no noise; me ueiiciirs, were J nil. out wieir
S,$ y,e,ue4iV i S,S -enpanta were , silent g -Ick or too weak
to move. Nor were there uny romping chil-
hart compaifd llieni to gourds with lego,
for all were Hiked, and most of them had
bodies bwollcn into tho likeness of pods
or calabashes. They looked peculiarly
grotcsqiiH with their spidery legs and thin
face
O'ltellly passed a damp hand across his
eyes. "Cod '" ho breathed. "She she's
one of theso!"
Ho hd not penetrated even thus far into
tM city without receiving a hint of what
renditions must be, for In tho outlying
streets hn had been sights and smelled odors
that had slikened him; but now that ho
was fice to face with the worst, now that
he breathed the verv breath of misery, ho
could scan-el) ciedlt what he saw. A
stench. Indescribably nauseating, assailed
him and Jacket as they mingled with tho
crowd, for as et their nostrils wero un-u-ed
to poverty and filth. It wis tho rancid
odor that ailses from unwashed, unhealthy
bodies, and It testified etoquently to tho
living conditions of tho prisoners. Hollow
c)cs and hopeless faces followed tho two
newcomers as they picked their way slowly
along.
Tho rcconcentrados overran Matanzas In
in unclean swarm; streets and plazas wero
congested with them, for no attempt was
mndo to conflno them to their quarters.
Morning brought them sti earning down from
the suburban slopes where they lived, eve
ning cent them winding back; their days
were spent In an aimless search for food.
They snatched at crumbs and combed tho
gutters for crusts. How they managed to
exist, whence cimo the, food that kept
life in their miserable bodies, was a m)s
tery, even to the citizens of tho city; no
organized effort had been made to care
for them and there was Insufficient surplus
food for half their number. Vet somehow
they lived and lingered on.
Of course tho city was not entirely peo
pled by the starving as a matter of fact,
they formed scarcely one-fifth of the nor
mal civil population and the llfo of tho
city was going on a good deal as usual,
Mores were open, at least, mere was
,,w.u..-."w -"t::-a ,,;. ,.i,i. ,.,. to mc
ever In T passing the lines. Discipline, never dren. Thero were, to be sure, vast numbers , dally train from Habana. and the barracks
irti ut iieMt. was extremely lax ai me ui unucieiu ..aw.- ... ,., OHUa.u, uuw n?iw uu m loitini uuui., n -- .-"
brick fortlnas along the roads, and. slnco irn needed to iook iwice to reauzo mat
urn. two refugees were too Door Ui warrant they were not p)gmles or wlzenej llttlo
search, they wero waved onward oy tne
old folks, it was not strango that Jacket
the wastacr of this normal population
that these ID, 0U0 prisoners wero fenced lo
live, liven this wastage was woefully In-
..ilfiiii.ilH. merely siivlng to prolong buf
feting bv making starvation slower.
At the time of O'ltclllv's arrival thn
bight prebented by these Innocent victims
of war was appalling; It roused In hhn h.
dull ted rage at the power width had
vvronl. tnls crime and at tho men who per
mitted It to continue. Spain was a r hrls
tlan nation, he reflected; bho had Bet up
moie ctosses than any other, nnd )Ct be
neath them bho had butchered moro people
than all tho nations of tho earth combined.
This monstrous coldly ca.culatlng effort
to destroy tho entire I'uban people seemed
to him the blackest Infamy of all, and he
wondered if it ould be allowed to suc
ceed. Kortunalcly for the two friends. General
Ilntancourt's generosity perved to relievo
them from any immediate danger of starva
tion. After making a few purchases and
eating with the utmost frugality, they be
gan their search. Later, they stretched
themselves out to sleep on tho stones be
neath the portals of tho railroad station.
The First Night
They spent a horrid, harrowing night, for
now the general distress was brought home
to them moro poignantly than ever. At
dawn they earned that these peop'o wero
actually dving of neglect. Tho faint light
betrayed the presence of new corpses lying
upon tho station flagstones. From those
still living, groans, sighs, sick mutterinss
rose until O'ltellly finally dragged his
youthful companion out of the place,
"I can't stand that." he confessed. "I
can't sleep when people are starving to
death alongside of mc. This money burns
my pocket I I " ....
Jacket read his purposo and laid a de
taining hand upon his arm.
"It will savo our lives, too," ho said,
simply. ,
"Bah! Wo are men. There aro women
and children yonder "
Hut Jacket's sensibilities were calloused.
It seemed. "Of what use would your few
pesetas bo among so many?" he Inquired.
Cod has willed this, and lie knows what
lla Is doing. Uesldcs, your 'pretty one' Is
probably as hungiy as are these people.
No doubt we shall find that she, too. Is
starving."
O'ltellly slowl withdiew his hand from
his iKicket. "Yes' It's llosa's mono). But
come; I can't endure this."
Hn led tho way back to the Plaza of
Liberty and there on an lion bench they
waited for tho full day. They wero very
tired, but further sleep was Impossible, for
tho death-wagons rumbled by on their way
to collect the bodies of those who had died
during tho night
Neither tho man nor tho boy ever w holly
lost tho nightmare memory of the next few
days, for their search took them Into every
part of tho rcconcentrado districts. What
they beheld aged them Day after day,
fiom dawn till dark, they wandered, peer
ing Into huts, staring Into faces, asking
questions until they wero faint from fatlguo
and Nick with disappointment.
As time passed and thsy failed to find
Itosa Vnrona a terrlblo apprehension began
to weigh O'ltellly down; his faco grew old
and drawn, his Nhou'ders sagged, his limbs
began to drag. It was all that Jacket could
do to keep him going. The boy, now that
thero was actual need of him, proved a
perfect Jewel; his optimism never failed,
his faith never faltered, and O'ltellly began
to feel a dumb gratitude at having tho
younrster by his side.
Jacket, too, became thin and gray about
the lips. Hut he complained not at all and
he laughed a great deal. To him the
morrow was always another day of brilliant
promise toward which he looked with never
lulling eagerness; and not for a single mo
ment did he question the ultimate success
of their endeavor. Such an example did
much for the older man. Together they
riractlced thu strictest, harshest economy,
Ivlng on a few cents a day, while they
methodically searched the city from limit to
limit.
At first O'ltellly concerned himself more
than a llttlo with the problem of escape,
but as time wore on he thought less and
leis about that. Nor did ha have occasion
to waste further concern regarding his dis
guise. That It was perfect he proved when
several of his former acquaintances passed
him by and when, upon one occasion, ho
came face lo face with old Don Mario de
Castano. Don Mario had changed; he was
older, his flesh had softened, and It hung
loosely upon his form. He appeared wor
ried, harassed, and O'ltellly recalled rumors
that the war had ruined him. Tho man's
air of dejection seemed to bear out the
story.
They had been enemies, nevertheless
O'ltellly felt a sudden impulse to make
himself known lo tho Spaniard and to ap
peal directly for news of Itosa's fate. But
Don Mario, ho remembered In time, had
a reputation for vlndlctlveness. so he smoth
ered tho desire. On other encounter
O'ltellly had reason to remember
Cobo Once More
It so chanced that one day he and Jacket
found themselves In the miserable rabble
which assembled at the railroad station to
Implore alms from tho Incomlpg passengers
of the Habana train. I'ew people were
traveling these days, and they were, for
tho most part. Spanish officers to whom the
sight of starving country peoplo was no
novelty. Now and then, however, there did
arrive visitors from whom the spectacle
of so much wretchedness wrung a contribu
tion, hence there was always an expectant
throng at the depot. On this occasion
O'ltellly was surprised to hear the piteous
whines for charity in the name of God turn
claimed tho boy. "Well, now, I should
enjoy cutting his heart out."
O'ltellly's emotions wero not ontlrely un
llko those of his email companion. Ills
lips became dry and white as lio tried to
speak.
"What a brute! That face Ugh!"
Ho found himself shaking weaklly, and
discovered that a new and wholly unac
countable feeling of discouragement had
settled upon him. He tried manfully to
shako it off, but somehow failed, for tho
sight of Uosa's arch-enemy and the man's
overbearing personality had affected him
queerly. Cobo's air of confidence and au
thority seemed to emphasize O'Reilly's im
potence and bring It forcibly homo to him.
To think of his lustful persecution of Itosa
Varona, moreover, terrified him.
That afternoon found tho two friends
among the miserable hovels which encircled
tho foot of La Cumbre, about tho only
quarter they had not explored. Below lay
San Severlno, the execution place; above
was the site of the old Varona home. Mora
than onco on his way about tho city O'Reilly
had lifted his eyes in tho direction of the
inner, lectins v. srrai Hunger lo revisit the
suddenly Into a subdued but vicious mutter """ .5? o1?,,,hiarI5Se."t2,no.8-aJ-."ir
would have upon him ho had thus far re
sisted the Impulse. Today, however ho
could no longer fight the morbid desire and
so. In spite of Jacket's protest at the useless
expenditure of effort, he set out to climb
the hill. Of course tho boy would not let
him go alone.
Llttlo was said during tho ascent. The .
La Cumbre road seamed very long and verv
steep. How different tho last time O'Relliv
had swung uu It I Tho climb had never
before tired him as it did now, and he.
reasoned that hunger must have weakened
htm even more than ha realised. Jacket felt
tho exertion, too: ho was short nt h.ii
and rested frequently. O'ltellly saw that '
of race. Hia-ps were Intermingled with vi
tuperatlons. then the crowd fell strangely
silent, parting to allow tho pa-wage, of a
great, thick-set man in the uniform of a
colonel of volunteers. Tho fellow was un
usually swarthy and he wore a black scowl
upon his face, while a long puckering scar
tho full length of ono cheek lifted his mouth
into a crooked sneer and left exposed a
glimpse of wolfish teeth.
O'Reilly was at a loss to fathom this
sudden alteration or attitude, tho whistle
of Indrawn breaths and tho whispered
curses, until ho heard somo ono mutter tho
name. "Cobo." Then Indeed he started and
stiffened In his tracks. He fixed a fas
cinatea stare upon tnoieiiow. th. boy's bare, brown lees had t,w v""1.
colonel cobo seemec, no iiitie. pleased Bme. n, had last noticed th.m. "nnH s".",'.
a sudden pang at having brought the littii
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"vvsu, nomore,
by tho reception he created. With his chest
arched and his black eyes gleaming malevo
lently he swaggered through tho press,
clicking his heels noisily upon tho stono
flags. When he had gone Jacket voiced a
Vicious oath.
"So thatvls the butcher of babies!" ex-
he said when thav n.i...j
to rest. "I'm afraid we came too late I'm
afraid we're licked." ,ale ra
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