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SYNOPSIS. I-?John Stuart Webster, mining engineer, after cleaning up a for}"n? 'n Valley. Calif.: board, a Ud'v inFn i^.8t" He bofl|end? a young troumMng the "Jest*" thorou?hlr CHAPTER II.?At Denver Webster receives a letter from Billy Geary, his cloaeet friend. Oeary urges him to come to Bobrante, Central America, to finance and develop a mining claim. He decides to go. CHAPTER III. ? Dolores Ruey, the youn* woman Webster befriended, and Who has made a deep Impression on him as he has on her, is also on the way to , Bobrante. CHAPTER IV.?At Buenaventura, capital of Bobrante. Billy deary. 111 and penniless, Is living on the charity of "Mother Jenks," keeper of a dramshop. She receives a cablegram from Doleres. telling Of her coming. (Continued from last week) "fiord's truth!" the holy murmured "An' me about to turn him ndrift for the Inwst fortnight 1 Well for Mm 'e gllers hadtnlred the picture o' my tAlnted 'Enery, ns was the splttln' Image of his own fnwther. 'Evings! Ell's hells 1 But that was a hit of n tight squenk! .lust ns I'm fully conwinced Vs bent It an' I'm left 'oldln' the sack, nil nlong o' my kindness of 'eart. > gets the cnhlegrain 'e's been IA/VI-U' #..M tKlo * uirn in K'l una inu IMUIIlllS , I'll B alters claimed as 'ow nny time 'e got a cnMfirnm It'd he an answer, to Ma letter, with money to foller! M* word, but tliat was touch an' go I" 8tlll congratulating herself upon her food fortune In Intercepting Don Juan Cafetero. Mother Jenks proceeded upstairs to her chamber, clothed herself. and adjourned to the kitchen. After giving orders for an extra special breakfast for two, Mother Jenks returned to her cantlna, and fortnally opened the same for the business of that day and night. To her came presently, via the tiled hallway, the object of her solicitude a young man ou the sunny side of thirty. He was thin for one of his height and breadth of chest; In color his countenance resembled that of a sick Chinaman. His hair was ihlek and wavy, but lusterless; his dark blue eyes carried a bint of Jaundice: and a generous mouth, beneath an equally generous upper Hp, gave ample ground for the suspicion that while Mr. William Geary's speech denoted him ?n American citizen, at least one of his muternal ancestors had been wooed and won by an Irlslmiuu. An old Pnnumu hut, sad relic of a pros perous past, a pair of soiled buck skin pumps, a suit of unbleached linen equally befouled, and last but not least, the remnants of a smile thnt much hard luck could never quite obllttwate, completed his attire?and to one a stranger In the tropics would appear to constitute a complete Inventory of Mr. Geary's possessions. "Dulce corazon mlo, I extend a greeting," he cnlled at the entrance. **1 trust you rested well last night, Mother Jenks, and that no evil dreams were bom of your midnight repast of frljoles refrltoa, marmalade, and arfan'-nrf I" "Chop yer spoofln', Willie," Mother Jenks simpered. "My heyel Bo I'm "Chop Your Spoofln', Willi*. yer woet'eart, cl? ? \>r wheedlln' blighter, tonkin' love to a Kirl as Is old enough to be yer mother!" "A woman." Mr. Oeitry retorted nnttely and not a lilt ubashed, "Is at the 4pex of her feminine chnrtng at thirty-seven." He knew his landlady to be not a day under fifty, but such la the ense >vmii w 11u*ii i iit- innu Buuirr uinr blarney that neither Hilly dowry nor Mother Joukw regarded this pretty sj>eoeh In the 11(tht of au observation Inunnterlnl, Inconsequential and not RoPnane to tho matter at Issue. Never! heless. there was a deeper reason for his hlnrney. Tlila morning. watchInpc the relltale tinge of pleasure underlying the alcohol-begotten htie of the Rood creature's face, he felt almost ashamed of hla own heartlessness?almost. but not quite. For two months he had existed entirely because of the leniency of Mother .Tanks In the matter of credit. He could not pay har cash, devoutly as he hoped to do seme day, and ho considered H of the m^t vltsl Importance EBSTER I AN'SMAN ! ler B. Kyrie \uthor of "Cappy ticks," "The Valley _ ? xl t - ri. h cue oianis, Lie ! CoryOgfct Vr Wtfl ICyM how survive. Therefore, in lieu of cash he paid her compliments, which she snapped up greedily. An Inventive genius was Billy. He never employed the same defensive tactics two days In succession, apd when personal flattery threatened to fall him. a large crayon reproduction of the lnte Henry Jenks, which hung over the l>nck bnr, was a never-falling ! source of Inspiration. Tills wns the "sainted 'En??ry" previously referred to hv Mother Jenks. He had been a sergennt In Her Brlttanlc Majesty's Ko.val Horse artlllerv. ! and upon retiring to the reserve had barkened to a proposition to emigrate t* Sobrante and accept a commission as colonel of artillery with the gov; eminent forces then In the throes of a I revolutionary attack. The rebels bad triumphed, and as a result 'Enery had been sainted via the customary expeditious route; whereupon his wife had had recohrse to her early profession of barmaid, and El Buen Amlgo had resulted. However, let- us return to our sheeps. as Mr. Geary would have expressed It. Seemingly the effect of Billy's compliment was Instantly evident. for Mother Jcnks set out two glasses and a bottle. "T know yer a trlfler, Willy Geary," she simpered, "but If I do s'y It as shouldn't, I was accounted as 'andsonie a barmaid as you'd find In Bristol town. I've lost my good looks, what with grief an' worrltln' since lositf my sainted 'Enery, but 1 was I 'andsnnie oncet." j "i well believe It, Mother? since vioi are handsome still! For my ' pan." he coutinued cougdentirdly, as with vhnklng h ?... .1 . nis oin.idvglass, "you'll excuse this drunkard's drink, Mother, hut I need It ; 1 had the shakes again last night?for my part, I prefer the full-blown rose to the bud." Mother Jenks fluttered like a debutante as she poured her drink. They touched glasses, calloused worldlings | that they were. He tossed oft his drink. It warmed and strengthened him. after his night of chills and fever, and brazenly he returned to the attack. "Changing the subject from feminine grace and charm to manly strength and virtue. I've been marking lately the resolute poise of your martyred husband's head on his Hoe military shoulders. There was a man, if I may Judge from his photograph, that would flght a wildcat." "Oh, m'ybe 'e wouldn't!" Mother Jenks hastened to declare. "You know, Willie, I was present w'en they shot im, a-waltln' to claim 'Is body. *E kisses me good-bye. an* says 'e: 'Brace up. ol' girl. Remember your 'usbaud's neen a sergeant In *Er Majesty's Royal 'Orse artillery, an* don't let the bloody blighters see yer cry.' Then 'e walks out front, with Ms fine straight back 10 the wall, draws a circle on Ms blue tunic with white chalk an' says: 'Shoot at that, yer yeller-bellled bounders, an' be d??d to yer!' " "To he the widow of r.v.eh a gallant son of Mars," Rllly declared, "Is a greater honor than being the wife of a duke. Ah. Mother," he added with n note of genuine gratitude and sincerity, "you've been awfully good to me. I don't know what Fd have done without you." He laid his hand on her fat arm. "Mother, one of these days I'll get mine, and when I do Fm going to stake you to a nice little pub back In Bristol." She smiled at him with motherly i tenderness and shook her head. In a concrete niche In the mortuarv of the Catedrnl de la Vera Cruz the bones ! of her sainted 'Enery reposed, and when her hour came she would lie heside him. x *ri il llll.r, Willie, "np roill I him-, "an' I'd trust yer for double the score, s'help me. 'Evlng knows I 'aven't much, hut wot I 'ave I shares freely with them I likes." Mother .Tenks preceded him Into the shady side of the veranda, where ordinarily she was wont to breakfast In solitary state. Her table was set for two this morning, however. Hilly j flipped an mlventurous cockroach off | the table and fell to with fine appetite. He was dallying with a special brew of coffee, with condensed milk In It, when the Jamaica negro entered from the cantlna to announce Don Juan Cafetero with n cablegram. "A cablegram !" Mother .Tenks cried, "fiord's truth! I'll wager the pub It's for you, Willie. Bob"?turning to the negro, and addressing him In her own | private brand of Spanish?"give T>on Juan a drink. If 'e 'asn't helped Mmself while ver hack Is turned, an' bring the cablegram 'ere." Wltliln the minute Bob returned wnn h long yeiiow envelope, wnicn ne handed Mother Jenks. Without no much n? ti glance nt the superscription. she handed It to Rllly Geary, who ??>re It open and read: "Los Angeles, C?1? 17. a. A., August 16. 1913. "Henrietta Wllklns, Calle de Concordia, No. 19, Ruenaventura, Sohrnnte C. A. ''Leaving today to visit you. Will cahle from New Orleans exact date arrival. DOIX1RBS." | The snaflow or deep disappointment I settled over Billy's face as ha read. > Mother Jenka noted It Instantly. "Wot'a ' yot to s'y, Wllllef* she demanded. "It Isn't a ha. It's a ha," BUly replied. "Besldee, the cablegram Isn't i for me at all. Wkfor one Henrietta Wllkltte, Calle df. ?& Wl ' may be is a mystery to me. fever have any boarder by that name, Mother?" Mother Jenks' red fare had rone white. " 'Enrletta WUklns was my maiden nyine, Willie," she confessed soberly, "an' there's only one human as *ud cable me or write me by that nyme. Gord, Willie, wot's 'nppened?" "I'll read It to you. Mother." Billy fend the message aloud, and when' he hnd finished, to his amaze' ment. Mother Jenks laid her head on the table and began to weep. CHAPTER V. Without quite realizing why he did so. Billy decided that fear and not grief was at the bottom of the good creature's distress, and In his awkj ward, masculine way he placed his arm around Mother Jenks' shoulders. qVinnlr hor irontlt? or>?1 I>^? v.**? ? ..V f,. mm I'aur lici CIIIVIIIber that chaos might come and go again, but be. the said William CSeary. would remain her true and steadfast friend in any and all emergencies that might occur. "C.or* bless yer heart. Willie." Mother .Tenks sniffled, "t dunno wot In 'ell , yer ever goin' to think o' me w'en 1 j tell wot I've been up to this past flfi teen year." "Whatever you've been up to. Mother. It was a kind and charitable deed ?of that much I am certain," Billy replied loftily and?to his own surprise?sincerely. "As fiord Is my Judge. Willie, It started out that w'y," moaned Mother Ji nks, and she sipiee/ed Billy's band | a.- If from that yellow, shaking memj b; r rbe would draw aid and comfort. " F.r nyme Is Dolores Ituey. 'Er fa ii r?r was uon icicardo Rut;, presi- J d nt av This blasted 'ell on earth w'en n o nt:' my sainted 'Enery first eorae to ft o??r.v: .itnrn K ?\as too good for I ? vi?|ti-r-lf|l 1 ,.'\'0!'s; '< tried to di. r- edrnb fie tliein an run liic { "vrrnment on the square. ..? they c ul in't hunderstand. all along o' | Yvln' been kicked an' cuffed by a long ! I'..tp of hioiwly rotters. It wns Don ; I Tiirdo as gives tny sainted 'Enery 'Is I < annilssion as colonel in the hurtll* I It ry. "You've 'card me tell," Mother .1-nks continued. " 'ow the rebels got i rf a dozen Hainerlran gunners?deterters from the navy?an* blew 'Euery's battery to hits; 'ow the government forces fell hack upon Buenaventura. an' as 'ow w'en the dorgs begun to wonder If they mightn't lose, . they quit by the 'undreds an' went ; over to the rebel side, leavln' Don Ricardo an' 'Enery an' m'yhe fifty o' the gentry In the palace. In course they fought to a finish ; "rlstocrats, all of thoin, they 'ad to die fightin' or fflcin' u firin' squad." Billy nodded. He had heard the I trile before. Including the recital of the sainted 'Enery's gallant dash from the "And you haven't seen her In all these years?" Geary demanded, j "Not a look, Willie. She's been aftj er me ever since she grnduated from the convent to let her come 'onie an' wlslt me, hut Hl've told 'er to w.vte? that I'd he eomln* aoon to wlslt her. An' now, s'help me, she won't wait no longer; she's eomln* to wlslt me! Gor\ Willie, she's on her w'y!" "80 this cablegram would Indicate," Geary observed. "Nevertheless, Mother. I'm at a loss to know why you should feel so cut up over the Impending visit." There was real fear In Mother .Tenks' tenr-dlmmcd eyes. "I cawn't let *er see me." she walled. "I wasn't this w y w'en mv snlnted Enery hentrusted the lamb to me; It wasn't until awfter they hexecuted 'Enery that I commenced to slip?nn* now look at me. Look at me, Willie Geary; look at me, I a'y. Wot do yer see? Aw, don't tell me Tm younj^an' 'andnoma, for T know wot T am?e ^ a frowsy, dmnkcn. dlsrepyie^&ocordiWe, with made by Dr. D. * letter, I've been 'Enrletta Wllklns to 'er, an' Mother Jenks to every beachcoinhln' beggar In the Caribbean tropics. I've lied to 'er, Willie. I've wrote 'er as 'o\v 'er fawther, before 'e died, give in? enough money to lied lien te 'er like a lydy?** Again Mother Jenks' grief overceme her. "Oor\ Willie, I ain't respectable. She's comln' to see rae?an' I cawn't let 'er. She mustn't know 'ow I got the money for 'er heducatlon?sellin' 'ell-flre to a pack of rotten clorgs nn* consortln' with the scutn of this stinkIn' *ole! Oh. Willie, you've got to 'elp me. 1 cawn't 'nve 'er comln' to 131 Buen Anilgo to see me. nn' I cawn't ruin 'er reputation by culltn' on 'er In public nt the 'Otel Mateo. Oh. Gor\ Willie. Mother's come a cropper. Willie agreed with her. lie patted the sinful gray head of his landlady and waited for her to regain her composure. the while he racked his agile brain for a feasible plnn to fit the emergency. "She been plcturin' me In 'er mind all these years. Willie?plcturin' a fraud," walled Mother .lenks. "If sha sees lite now wot n shock she'll get, pore sweetheart an' er the sp'ttin' hImage ol u hnngel And oh. Wlliiw, while she don't remember wot ! looked l!Re, think o' the shook If she meets me! In 'er lawst letter she said as 'ow I was the only hanchor she had In life. Ho, yes. A sweet-lookln' hanchor I am?an' Hi was 'opin' to die before she found hout. I've got a hanuerlsni in my 'eart, Willie, so the surgeon on the mail boat tells me. an' w'en I go, I'll go like?that!" Mother Jenks snapped her cigarette-stained fingers. I'm fifty-seven. Willie, un' since my sainted 'Enery passed away. I 'aven't been no bloomin' hangel." She wrung her hands. "Oh, w'y in 'ell couldn't them harteries 'avo busted in time to save my lamb the 'iimiliatin' knowledge that she's he'oldln' to the likes o' me for wot she's got?an* 'ow I got it for 'er." Hilly (deary had a bright Idea. "Well." he said, "why not die?temporarily?if you feel that way about It? You could come hack from the grave after she's gone." Rut Mother Jenks shook her head. "No." she declared. "While Dolores is self-support in' now, still, if nnythink 'appened an' she was to need 'elp, 'elp Is somethin' no ghost can give. Think again, Willie. Dor, lad, w'ere's yer brains?" "Well," Hilly countered thoughtfully, "apparently there's no way of heading her off before she takes the steamer at New Orleans, so we'll take It for granted she'll arrive here In due course. About the time she's due. The Sainted 'Enery's Gallant Dash. blazing palace In an effort to save Don j Rlcardo's only child, a girl of seven, an? or nis capture and subsequent execution. "Thnt ended the revolution," Mother Jenks contlnuued. "But 'ere's somethink I've never told a llvln' soul. Shortly before 'Enery was hexecuted, 'e told me where 'e'd 'Id the youngster ?In n culvert out on the Mnlecon; so I 'Ired a four-wheeler an* went out an' rescued the pore lninh. I 'Id 'er until the hnrrlvnl o' the next fruit stenmer, w'en T shipped 'er to New Orleans In care o' the stewardess. Ill 'ad 'er put In the Catholic convent there, for as 'Enery said: 'Tnrietta, keep an eye on the little nipper, an* do yer damndest to see she's raised a lydy. 'Er father was a gentleman, an' you never want to forget 'e made vou Mrs. Colonel .Ter.ks.' So Hl've made trlydy out o' her, Willie: education, planner lessons, palntln', slngln', an' deportmlnt. After she graduated from the convent. I 'ad her take a course In the TT?I 1 I 6* t ~ | ^llinrinilj t? VHIIKMIIIU m*W V?rlenns wasn't 'ealth.v for 'er, an' she | needed a chynpe o' climate?an' for I the last two years she's been teachin' t In the *lph school In T,os Anpeles." DR. J. T. RUTLEDGE D?n!m? jarg?uu At Paftt'od "ojTuaaday and Wednes-^lundrfc ofWtjmo at Chesty^ k> t>R0k jranta suppose you run up to Ran Miguel de Padua for a couple of weeks and leave me to run El Buen Amlgo In your absence. I'll pln.v fair with you. Mother, so help me. I'll account for every eentavo. T'U borrow some decent clothes from Leber the day the steamer pets In; then I'll go aboard nd look over the passenger list, and If she's aboard, I'll tell her you closed your house and started for California to visit her on the last north-hound steamer?that her cablegram arrived Just after you had started; that the cable company, knowing I am a friend of yours, showed me the message and thnf T took It upon myself to call and explain that as a result of your departure for the United States It will he useless for her to land?useless and dangerous, because cholenn is raging In Buenaventura, although the port authorities deny It?" "Willie," Mother Jenks Interrupted impressively, a ghost of her old debonair spirit shining through her teajs, "yer don't owe me a bloomln' sixpence! Yer've syved the day, syved my reputation, an' syved a lydv's peace o* mind. Kiss me, yer precious byby." Ro Billy kissed her?gravely and with filial reverence, for he had long suspected Mother Jenks of being a pearl cast before swine, and now be was certain of It. "I'll send her back to the United Rtntes and promise to cable you to await her there," Billy continued. "Of course, we can't help It If yon and the cablegram miss connections, and once the young lady Is bnck In the United Rtates. I dare say she'll have to stay there a couple of years before she con save the price of another sea voyage. S A Tonic 8 K For Women g Z "I was hardly able to drag, I Uk L was so weakened," writes Mrs. U X W. P. Ray, of Easley, S. C. [l "The doctortreated me for about ri |V| two months, still 1 didn't get M yy any better. ! had a ifrge U fly and felt 1 surely must do U jXJ something to enable me to take Uk care ot my Uttle ones. I had Q jn heard of fr CARDUI m The Woman's Tonic K jy "I decided to try it," con- yf tinues Mrs. Ray ... "I took V. eight bottles in all... I re- W M gained my strength and have M had no more trouble with wo- U X] manly weakness. I have ten Ufa J children and am able to do all E XI my housework and a lot out- Qf doors ... I can tore recom- Ir^ M mend CarduL" M M Take Cardul today. It may M M be Just what yod need. M At an druggists. M And In the meantime \he may I marry?'* "Or that haneurlsm may 'ave turned the trick before that." Mother Jenka | suggested candidly hut Joyously. "In | course she'll he disappointed, but then disappointment never In.vs 'eavy on a young 'cart, Willie: an' belu' disappointed at not seeln' a person you ain't really acquainted with ain't as bad aa some disappointments." "I guess I know," Billy Geary replied bitterly. "If that cablegram had only been for me! Mother, If my old nnrtnat* nmil/l Kw onmn mlmolA **??*?%_ age to marry tills Dolores girl. your arteries 'and your aneurisms might bust and be damned, but the girl would be safe." "M'yhe," Mother Jenks suggested hopefully, "yer might fix it up for her w'en I'm pone. From all harcounts 'e's no-end a gentleman." "He's a he-man," Mr. -fleary declared with conviction. He sighed. "John Stuart Webster, wherever you are, please write or cable," he mue mured. CHAPTER VI. The ancient bromide to the effedt that man proposes but Ood disposes was never better exemplified than In the case of John Stuart Webster, who, having formulated certain daring piuns Tor me morrow ana surrendered himself to grateful slumber In his stateroom aboard the Gulf States TJmIted, awoke on that momentous morn ro a distinct apprehension that all was not as It should he with him. His mouth reminded him vaguely of a hird-and-animal store, and riot and Insurrection had broken out in the geometric center of his Internal economy. Webster was sufficient of a jack-leg doctor to suspect he was developing a splendid little case of ptomaine poisoning. He decided to go Into executive session with the sleeping-car conductor, who wired ahead for a doctor to meet the train at the next station. And when the sawbones came and pawed Jack Webster over, he gravely announced that If the pntient i had the slightest ambition to vote at , the next presidential election, he should leave the train at St. I?uls and enter a hospital forthwith. To this heart-breaking program Webster entered not the slightest objection, for wnen a man is seriously ill. he Is in much the same position as a politician "?to-wit: He is in the hr.nds of his friends. However, life had the habit of golug hard with Webster so frequently i that fortMiately he was trained to the minute, and after three days of heroic battling the doctor uwar<ied Jack tha decision. Thereafter they kept him in the hospital ten days longer, "feeding him up" ns the patient expressed it? at the end of which period Webster, some fifteen pounds lighter and not quite so fast on his feet as formerly, resumed Ids Journey toward New Oi leans. In the meantime, however, several things had happened. To begin, Dolores Iluey spent two days wondering what had become of her quondam knight of the whiskers?at the end of which period she arrived in New Orleans with the conviction strong upon her that while her hero might he as courageous as a wounded lion when dealing with men. he was the possessor, when dealing with women, of ahout two per cent less courage than a cottontail rabbit. Being a very human young lady, however, she could not help wondering what had become of the ubiquitous Mr. Webster, although the fact that he had mysteriously disappeared from the train en route to New Orleans did not perturb her one-half so much as it had the disappearee. She had this advantage over that unfortunate man. Whereas he did not know she was bound for Buenaventura, she knew he was: hence, upon arrival in New Orleans she dismissed him from her thoughts, serene in abiding faith that sooner or later her knight would appear, like little Bo-Peep's lost sheep, dragging his tail behind him, so to speak. Dolores spent a week in New OrIfMiniQ rnnau'ln rr felmwUhlne frcm her convent days In the quaint old town. This stop-over, together with the one in Denver, not having been taken Into consideration by Mr. William Cear.v when he and Mother Jenks commenced to speculate upon the approximate date of her arrival in Buenaventura, resulted In the premature flight of Mother Jenks to San Miguel de Padua, a fruitless visit oh the part of Billy aboard the f unique, of the United Fruit company's line, followed by a hurry call to Mother Jenks to return to Buenaventura until the arrival of the next steamer. This tlnig Billy's calculations proved correct, for Dolores did arrive on that steamer. The port doctor came aboard, partook of his customary drink with the captain, received a bundle of the latest American newspapers ami magazines, nosed around, asked a few |?erfunctory questions, and gave the vessel pratique. Dolores observed a gasoline launch shoot up to the landing at the foot of the companion-ladder and discharge a well-dressed, youthful white man. As he canie up the companion, the purser recognized him. nowny, Kin," no cnneu. "Hollo, yourself." Ml". William Geary replied, and Dolores know hlui for nn American. "l>o you happen to have as a passenger this trip a Inrge. Interesting person, by name John Stuart Webster?" ^rhleri Hlllv Geary. "I don't know, Billy. I'll look over the passenger list," and together they moved off toward Ids office. Dolores (To he continued on last page) J. ARTHUR KNIGHT Attorney-at-Law Office in Courthouse Chesterfield, S. C. 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