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( For your Spi J Oxft | King'sti I A MEXICAN'S FLIGHT By ARTHUR W. BREWSTER During the recent transition of the government of Mexico, in a suburban Tillage lived two families, one ot -whom, the Fernandes, favored the government, while the other, the Molina*, were known to be revolutionary sympathiser*. Nevertheless, these two families bad bean Intimate friends for years, and when a revolution came and the Madero government was about to be deposed both families made an arrangement for mutual protection. If tbe Madero side won then any bunted " RAUIKU ha mncMlwi JHUUAUft WVUIU i* ^v*utv?v ww ? to the Fernandez borne. If the Dlar. side woo the Fernandez might eeek refuge in the Molina home. Young Leandro Fernandez, a boy of eighteen, during the fighting for the capture of the police In the City of Mexico acted with the government troops and when the end came fled to ' the home of the Mollnaa. He was of 1 no political Importance, but had bitter enemies who desired to take advantage of the anarchy that followed the president's assassination, to be avenged upon the young soldier. He was successful In reaching the Molina home and making an entry without be log seen. Leandro, not relishing remaining hid den away In an attic or a cellar, possessing fresh, rosy cheeks and being without the slightest sign of a beard. xesolTed to make himself up as a girl in order that he might go about like other persons. Senorlta Inez Molina, a girl of sixteen, was about his size and loaned him some of ber wardrobe. His mother procured him a blond wig and sent It to him, and with a little paint and powder his maidenly toilet was complete. He bad been educated in New England, so was able to pass himself off for an American girl, a niece of 8enor and 8enora Molina. No sooner were the revolutionary forces victorious than young Fernandez's enemies, led by one Manuel Cosarees, set a watch for him at bis home, expecting to take him there after the assassination of the president. | They waited ror Dim to arrest Dim on a forged order of the revolutionary dictator, bat he did not appear. They were about to give up. thinking that ; he had fled to the country, when some of the neighbors of the Molinas heard that be was In their house masquerad- j lng as a girl, and. the report reaching > <Coaarees, he made inquiries and found , ^hat the only two young persons In the j Molina family were Inez Molina and | Jher cousin, Miss Mary Ashurst of j Massachusetts. Had the would be murderers been j certain that this supposed Mary Ash j urst was the man they wanted or had she not posed as an American they J would not have hesitated to take him i out forcibly and kill him. Hut first i they must satisfy themselves that tin girl was a man and the man they want ed. and, secondly?a matter of even more importance?they dare not risk troubling a citizen of the United States The Diaz government was at tue tune i in dread of American intervention, and I an.v man committing an outrage on an I, American citizen would be severely ' punished. The Cosarees gang visited the Molina j J home osten?ihlv to make an inspection I That i | We guarani II our Clothes. N I: satisfied, a new I | S. MAJ smmmmmm I . SPR ring Millinery tl >rds for Men ai ~ee Dry of some Kina ana saw rernanaez, out did not recognize him, though he rec ognlzed them. They went away evi dentlv dissatisfied, and Fernandez be lleved that as soon as they could make up their minds to some method of procedure they would call again. It was natural to suppose that If they suspected him they would brlnp a woman for the purpose of determln lng if he were really a woman, and upon the discovery of his sex they would take him a prisoner into Mexl co and shoot him on the way. Some j thing must be done to provide for such a contingency. The plan was hit upon for the two girls to change identities by means of a makeup. Ines, who was about the same complexion as Fernandes, put on the clothes he had worn during the vis it of his enemies. The blond wig war then put on, and she was made up with wax and cosmetics to resemble him. He. too, was made up for Ines. True enough, the very next day aftei their first visit they came again. Thle time they threw off the mask and. producing a forged order from the new regime, said they were looking for a Madeno soldier who bad assassinated a Diss supporter. They bad heard that be was masquerading as an American girl from Massachusetts and wished to determine the troth of the rumor. They had brought a woman who would satisfy herself that the person was really a female, and if It turned out to be so that would end the matter. It was coming evening when they called, and the lights had not been lighted. The two girls were sitting together In a corner, and Inez, now changed to personate the Massachusetts girl, arose and accompanied the woman to another room. In a few minutes both returned, and the woman reported herself satisfied. Then the visitors went away and did not return. But Fernandez thought It prudent to take his departure. Resuming the per sonality of the Massachusetts girl, he traveled to Vera Cruz as such and did not change his garb till he boarded a steamer bound for New York. Tben be astonished the passengers by pulling off his wig at the dinner table and exclaiming in his natural voice: "Saved, by thunder!" A Long 8iege. ' After a siege of twenty-four years Turkey took Candia from Venice In ioee. Cologne Cathedral. 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