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(.Continued from Inst week) He was John Stuart Webster again when Dolores saw him next; during the succeeding days his mood of oheerfalness and devll-niny-care Indifference never left him. And throughout that period of marking time Dolores was much In his society, a condition which he told himself was not to bis liking but which, nevertheless, he could' not obviate without seeming Indifferent to her happiness. And to permft bis friend's fiancee to languish In loneliness and heart-break did not appear to John Stuart Webster as the part of a true friend or a courtly gentleman?and he refnemhered that the bad once called him that. They rode together 1n the cool of the morning; they ffrove together on the Malecon In the cool of the evening; chaperoned by Don Junn Cafetero and a grinning Sohrnntean, they went shark nsning in Leber's launch; they played dominoes together; they discussed, throughout the lotyr, lazy, quiet afternoons, when the remainder of their world retired for the siostn. hooks, art. men. women, and things. And not once, throughout two weeks of camaraderie, did the heart-racked Wehster forget for a single Instant that he was the new friend, destined to hpcome the old friend; never, to the girl's watchful eyes, did he betrry the slightest disposition to establish their friendly relations on a closer basis. Thus did the arrival of The Pa.\ And them. Toward sunset they rod* out together along the hay shore and noted far out to sen the smear of smoke tlint marked the approach of La Rstrelllta?on schedule time. "You will go aboard her tonight," Wehster said very quietly to Dolores. "And you?" "I shall go aboard with you. I have arranged with Don Juan for him to stay ashore and to come out in Leber's launch with the first reliable news of the conflict. If Klcnrdo wins the city, he wins the revolution, and you and I will then go ashore?to dine with him in the pnlnce. If he loses the city, he loses the revolution, and we will both do well to remain aboard T.* Ral i-..!!!4s " "And in that event, what will be^ come of my brother?" "1 do not know; I forgot to ask him, hut If he survives, I Imagine he'll have sense enough to know he's whipped and will retreat on San Bru' no, fighting a rear guard action, embark aboard the steamer that brought tr.cn th""0, ?"d escape." "I'm worried about Mother Jenks." "I have, asked Mother Jenks to dine with us at 7 :.'I0 this evening, and have ordered a carriage to call for her. When she comes I'll tell her everything; then. If she wishes to stay ashore, let her. She's been through more than one such fracas and doesn't, mind them at all, I dare say." And In this Webster was right. Mother Jenks listened In profound silence, nodding her approval, as Webster related to her tlie story of the advent In the country of Rlcardo Ruey and bin plena, hut without revealing the Identity of Andrew Bowers. if n-~ ? *- - - ?i 1*1*3 *.v*nviuoiuu ui ijih reciuu tht old publican merely said: "0>r un me I" After a silence she added: "My sainted 'Enery used to s'y the proper hodds for a white man In a hally row ' this nature was 40 to 1. (Jor', hut how my sainted 'Enery would henjoy beln' 'ere this night to 'elp witli the guns." She sighed. "How about a little bottle of wine to drink pence to your sainted Henry and luck to The Cause?" Webster suggested. "That's wot I calls talkln'," Mother Jenks responded promptly, and Web ter, gazing reflectively at the old lady's heard, wondered why she had not been horn a man. .Dolores, fearful for her benefactor's safety, urged Mother Jenks to accompany thent out aboard I.a Estrelllta, but the old dame Indignantly refused, and when pressed for a reason gave It with the utmost frankness: "They'll be tykin' Sarros, an' when they tyke 'lm they'll back him ag'ln the same wall he backed my sainted 'Enery and your father against, my dear. I've a notion that your father's son'll let Mrs. Col. 'Enery Jenks come to the pa rty." At It) o'clock Webstei accompanied Mother Jenks home in the carriage, which he dismissed at El Muen Amigo ?with Instructions to return to the hotel while he continued afoot down the Calle Sun Itosnrio to the hay. where Leber's huge corrugated Iron warehouse loomed darkly above higji water mark. He clipped along In tin deep shadow of the warehouse wall and out on the end of the little dock, where he satisfied himself that Leber's launch was at its moorings; then he went hack to the warehouse and whistled softly, win reitpon a man crawled out from under the structure and approached him. It was Don Juan Cafetero. "They're all Inside," he whispered and laid finger on lip. "They got In half an hour ago, an' dlvll a sowl the wiser save meself." "Thank you, John. Now that I ' know the coast Is clear and the launch < ready, I'll go hack to the hotel for | Mlsa Ruey." "Verv \V(>II. ?nr " tVin .limn ponlled I? " . " ' ' ? and crawled back under the wn rehouse. Half an hour later the aound of boof beats warned him of the approach of Webster and Dolores In a carriage, and be came forth, loaded in EBSTER I AN'SMAN ler B. Kyrie \uthor of "Cappy <icks," "The Valley >f the Giants," Etc. \y F?Wf 1. lyw been enabled to bring, and held the gunwale of the boat while uis passengers stepped aboard. About a half a mile olT shore Webster throttled down the motor until the launeh barely made steerage way. "It would never do to go aboard the steuiuer before the fraeas started ashore," he explained to Dolores. "That would indicate a guilty knowledge of coming events, and in the event of disaster to the rebel nrtns It Is Just possible Senor Sarros might have pull enough, if he bears of our flight six hours In advance of hostilities, to take us oiT the steamer and ask us to explain. So we'll Just cruise "We'll Just Cruise Slowly Around and Listen." The uproar swelled, Hie noise gradually drifting around the city from west to south, forming', seemingly, n semicircle of sound. "The government troops nre up un<l doing now," Wehster observed, nnd speeded up his motor. "I think It high time we played the part of frightened refugees. Manser bullets kill at three miles. Some strays may drop out here In the bay." He speeded the launch toward Kstrelllta, and aa the craft scraped In alongside the great steamer's com s .J ....Mill.I mill nsieil ; me illlUCK will ? ?mn? just before (lawn; then shortly thereafter we can scurry out to the steamer ami he welcomed aboard for the sake of the news we bring." She did not answer, *and Webster knew her thoughts were out where the arc lights on the outskirts of Iluenayenturu met the open country?out where the brother site could scarcely remember and whom, until a month previous, she had believed dead, would shortly muster his not too numerous followers. * In the darkness Webster could hear the click of her beads as she prayed; on the turtle deck forward Don Juan Cafetero sprawled, thinking perchance of his unlovely past and wondering what effect the events shortly to transpire, ashore would have on his future, lie wished Webster would relent and offer hint it drink some time within the next twenty-four hours. In times of excitement like the present a man needs a drop to brace"him up. Five times the launch slipped lazily down the harbor along the straggling two mile water front; five times It loafed hack. The moon, which was In the first quarter, sank. Then to VVebster's alert ear there floated acrdsr t*.e still waters the sound of a gentle purring?the music of an autotruck. He set the launch In toward Leber's Utile dock, and presently the? saw the door of Leber's warehouse open. Men with lanterns streamed mini, ngniing trie way tor others who bore between them heavy burdens. "They're eiiifil a<*in^ the machine puns in the motor-truck," he whispered to Dolores. "We will not have to wait loop now. It's nearly 4 o'clock." Apaln they hacked out Into the hay until they could see far out over -the sleeping city to the hills beyond in the west. Presently along the side of those hills the headlight of a locomotive crept, droppinp swiftly down grnfle until it disappeared in the lowlands. | A half hour passed; then to the south of the city a rocket (tared skyward; almost instantly another Ha red from the west, followed presently by a murmur, scarcely audible, as of a mutYled 'mare drum, punctuated presently by a louder, sharper, insistent puck-puck pin k that, had Webster but known It. was the bark of a MnxltnVickers rapid-lire pun throwing a stream of shells into the cantonments of the government troops on the fringe of the rity. Webster's pulse quickened. "Th< re goes the 'tillcry to the south, sor," '"II .1111111 ril I l (Ml, ntlfl PVOtl us IIP spoke. n shell burst gloriously over the government palace, the white walls af which were already looming over the remainder of the city, now faintly visible In the approaching dawn. "That was to awaken our friend, Sarms," Webster cried. "I'll bet a buffalo nickel that woke the old horse thief up. There's another?and another." 50good cigarettes for 10c fron one sack of GENUINE "BULL" DURHAM /-<&>. TOBACCO the ladder to greet them nnd Inquire | eagerly of the trend of events ashore. "We left In a hurry the Instant It started," Webster explained. "As Americana, we didn't figure we had any interest In that_ scrap, either v ay." He handed Dolores out on the landing stage, tossed their baggage after her and followed; Don Juan took the wheel, and the launch slid out nnd left them there. At the head of the companion ladder Webber paused and turned for another look at Ruennventura. To the west three great fires now threw a lurid I' :hl skyward, mocking an equally 1 .r!d light to the east, that mnrked the approach of daylight. Ue smiled. ' i'hnsc are the cantonment barracks I.Mining," he whispered to Dolores. ' iticardo is keeping his word. He's driving the rats hack Into their own holes." I The weeks of clean living, of ab- ; f entIon from his wonted dally alco- j I olic ration, had Inspired In Don Juan ' t'nfetero a revival of his all but de- j f met Interest In life; conversely. In j faese stirring times, he was sensible of an equally acute Interest In So; hrontean politics, for he was Irish; j and flabby Indeed IS tbnt son of the I Green Little Isle who. wherever he I may be, -declines to take a band In ' any public argument. For the love of polftlcs, like the love of home, Is nev- i I er dead in the Irish. It Is instinct with them?the heritage, perhaps, of centuries of oppression and suppression, which nurtures rather than stilles the yearning for place and power. Now as Don Juan turned Leber's launch shoreward and kicked the motor wide open, he, too. descried against the dawn the glare of the burning cantonments west I of the city, and at the sight his pulse beat high with the lust of battle, the longing to be In at the death In this druggie, where the hopes and aspl- < ; rations of those la; loved were at stake. Two months previously a revolution ; would have been a matter of extreme indifference to Don Juan; he would have reflected that It was merely the outs trying to get in, and that if they succeeded, the sole benefit to the gen- ( ernl public would be the privilege of paying the bill. Today, however, in the knowledge that he bad an opportunity to tight beside white men and perchance even up some old scores with lk? ia mr uimniin * hii. n occurren smnienly to Dun Junn th:it it would he a brave and vlrt turns net to east his lot with the Ruey forces. lie was a being reorganized and rebuilt, and I' , behooved him to do something to dem- I j onstrate liis manhood. Don Juan knew, of course, that ! should the rebels lose and he be captured. he would he executed; yet tills contingency seemed a far-fetched one. in view of the fact that he had John Stuart Webster at his hack, ready to finance his escape from the city. Also Don Juan hajl had an opportunity, In the hills above San Miguel de Padua, for a critical study of Ilicnrdo Ruey and had come to the conclusion that at Inst a real man had come to liberate Sohrante; further, Don Juan j had had ocular evidence that John Stuart Webster was connected with j the revolution, for had he not smug ' gled Ituey into the country? It was ! something to he the right-hand man ! of the preSfdeiit of a rich little conn- | try like Sohran1e;'it was also some- j thing to he as close to that right-hand man as Don Juan was to his master, j | Webster; consequently self-Interest i and 'ii sporting code whispered to Don Juan t int It behooved iifm to demonstrate his lo.valtj with every means at Ids command, even uuto his ! bean's hlnod. "Who knows." he cogitated as the launch ?hore him swiftly shoreward. | "hut what I'll acquit mesclf with lion or and get a line Job iindher the new administration? 'Tis the niasther's fight. I'm thinliln*: then, be tlie same token. 'tl< John Joseph Cnfferty's win, lost or draw, an' may the devil damn me if I fail him aftlu r what he's done for me. Sure, If Glnernl i Ruey wins, a crook av tlie masthor's J finger will make me jefe politic). An' If he does?hoo-roo! lino-ray!" With Ids imagination still running riot, Don Juan made the launch fast to Hie little dock, down which he ran straight for the warehouse, where the Ruey mercenaries were still congregated, busily wiping the factory grease from tlie weajsms which had just been distributed to them from the packing cases. A sharp voice halted lilni, he paused, panting, to find himunit l,inL-lnif ilnu-n Oin t.iiw, SliA. l- ? ? ? "- IIHIC nm* rel of M si TV i CO pistol. "W'lio nro you, and what nro yon doing hero?" the man behind the weapon demanded brusquely. "I'io Private John J. CnfTorty. the latest recruit to the Ituey army." Don Juan answered coiii|>osedly. "Who did ye tlilnk I was? Private secreth'ry to fhnt dlvil Sarros? Man, dear, lowpr that gun flv yourH. for <;*x| known I'm nervous enough as It Is., Have ye something' ye could give me to tight wit.' avlc?" t The man who bqd challenged him? a lank, swarthy individual from the Mexican border?looked him over With twlnkl|ng eyes. "You'll do. Caf yon don't, you'll wish you had. There'* a man for every rifle Just now. hut ! wouldn't he surprised If there'd l> * a right smart more rifles than men hefore a great while. Help yourself to the gun o' the" first man that goes down; In the menntlpie, hop Into that there track and keep the cartridge belt for the machine guns full up. You're Just In time/*" Without further ado Don Juan cllmhed Into the truck. A little citadel of sheet steel had been built around the driver's seat, with a narrow slit In front through which the latter peered out. The body of the truck had been boxed In with the same material and housed two machine guns, emplaeed, and a crew of half n dozen men crouched on the floor engnged In loading the belts. Four motor bicycles, with sturdy, specially-bullt side cars attached, and a machine pun in ench side car, were waltlnp near by. together with a half-dozen country carts loaded with ammunition cases and druwn by horses. "How soon do we start?" Don Juan demanded anxiously, as he crowded In beside one of his new-found comrades. "I believe." this Indlvldun" replied In the unmistakable accents of an Oxford man, "that the plan Is to wait until five o'clock; by that time all the government troops that can be spared from the arsenal and palace will have been dispatched to the fighting now J taking place west of the city. Naturally, the government forces aren't anticipating an attnck front the rear, nnd so they will. In all probability. ' weaken their base. I believe that i eases our task; certainly It will save i us many men. I Don Juun nodded his entire approval to this shrewd plan of campaign ami fell to stufling cartridges in the web belting, ,the while he whistled softly, unmusically, nnd with puffing, hissing sounds between his snaggle teeth, until a Sobrantenn gentleman (It was Doctor Pacheco) came out of the warehouse and gave the order to proceed. Tliey marched along the water front for four blocks and then turned up n side street, which happened to be the Calle de Concordia, thus enabling Mother Jenks, who was pee-'n^ from the doorway of El Buen Am '?? see them coming. "Hah!" she muttered. ' 'Kner> they're comln'. The worm Is turulo', 'Enery; lf? years you've wyted for vengeance, my love, but tod'y you'll *et It." She waddled out Into the street and held up her hand In a gesture as authoritative and Imperious as that of. a traffic officer. "Ratter-r ry "nit!" she PPnoL ViliA l**wl A " ........vm> .'..c ..nil lir.ml nil* IHII* I'.nery ulve that command often enough to have acquired the'exact In (lection necessary to make an impression u( an men accustomed 10 obeying such a command whenever given. Instinctively the column slowed up; seine of tlie Foreign Legion, old coast artillerists, no doubt, came to a halt with promptness and precision; all stared at Mutlier Jctiks. 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I lis lirst J thought had boon to send all It's , nvailnhlo forcos to support the troops hearing the brunt of tho rehol nttaok. , and It was treniondously important that this should ho done very prompt- ' ly, in view of the lack of information 1 concerning the numerical force of tho t enemy; consequently ho had reduced 1 the arsenal force to 10<) men and re- i tained only his favorite troops of tho ( guards and one company of the Fif- | . teenth infantry to protect the palace. | Acting tinder hastily given tele- j phonic orders, the commanding olli- | cer at tlit? cantonment barracks hail , detaik'il a few hundred men lo light a rear-guard action while the main army | 1 fell hack in pood order hehind a rail- I s \>uy embankment which swept In a wide arc around the city and offered an excellent substitute for breastworks. Tlds position had scarcely been attained before the furious advance of the rebels drove in the rear puard. and pending the capture of the arsenal. 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