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" - - .i.l.ljIII jH W. (Continued from leaf week) H' V* . ^va CHAPTER XVI. While Rlcardo' watched beside the unconscious Wehster one of his aides * galloped up the street, to return presently with a detachment with stretchers, Into which Wehster and Don Juan Cafetero were laid and carried up the palace driveway Into the huge golden reception hall where only the hlght before' Sarros hfftf greeted the belles and beaux of his capital. In the ra'cah- < time Mother Jenks had succeeded' lb restoring Dolores to ' consciousness; supported by ' the indomitable old woman the girl "Slowly followed the grim procession until', at the door of the reception room, they found their further progress barred by ? sentry. "Tho m?*h ? - ?V t vu-HHiavu umii w ?IT(|U, UV Informed them * In response to* their eager queries. "If you want his hod^,* he continued, hazarding a guess as to their mission. "I guess you- can have It. There he Is." And 'the sentry pointed to the stretcher vthloh had been set down along the wall'pf the reception hall. " 'Ow about the other?" Mother Jenks demanded. Don Junn Cafetero had, unfortunately, been so much of a nuisance to her In life that she waa pot minded to he troubled greatly over him to dentil, although the Spartanlike manner of his exit had thrilled the British bulldog blood In he*. The big fellow Isn't quite dead ye^ but I'm afraid he's a goner. The aurgeons have him In this room now. Friend of yours, Miss?" he Inquired In tones freighted with neighborly sympathy. Dolores nodded. "Sorry I can't let you In, Miss," he Continued, "but the General ordered me to keep everybody out ur.til the doctors have finished looking him over. If I was you, I'd wait In that room across the hall; then you can get the first news when the doctors come out." Mother Jenks accepted his advice ?nd steered her charge iuto the room Indicated. As they malted, Ricardo Ruey stood anxiously beside the table on which John St\mrt Webster's big, Jimp body reposed, while Doctor Pnclioco. assisted by a Sohrantcnn confrere, went deftly over him with surgical scissors and cut the blood-soaked Clothing from his body. "He breathes very gently," the rebel leader said, presently. "Is there any Jjope?" The little doctor shrugged. "I fear pot. That bayonet-thrust In the left aide missed his heart but not his ipng." ''But apparently he hasn't bled much from that wound." The hemorrhage Is probably Internal. Even If that congestion of blood In the lungs does not prove fatal very shortly, he-cannot, In his weakened state, survive the traumatic fever from all these wounds. It Is - bound?hello, how our poor friend still lives with the bayonet broken off In bis body?for here Is steel?hah ! Not a bayonet, but a pistol." He unbuttoned the wounded man's coat and found a strap running diagonally up across his breast and over the right shoulder, connecting with a holster under the left arm. The doctor unbuckled this strap and removed the holster, which contained Webster's spare gun; Ricardo, glancing disinterestedly at the sheathed weapon, noted a small, new, triangular hole In the leather holster. He nlek?d It lin urlfhrlrour fho nUfnl ?r?/l found a deep scratch, recently made, along the blued steel close to the" ml- i canite butt. When Hlcardo glanced at Pacheco after his scrutiny of the pistol and holster, the doctor's dark eyes were regarding him mirthfully. "I have been unnecessarily alarmed, my general," said Pacheco. "Our dear friend has been most fortunate In his choice of wounds " "He's a lucky Yankee; that's what he Is, my dear Pacheco. A lucky Yankee !" Hlcardo leaned over and examined the bayonet-wound In Webster's left side. "He took the point of the steel on his pistol he happened to he wearing under Ms left arm," he went on to explain. "That turned {he bayonet and It slid along his ribs, making a superficial flesh-wound." Pacheco nodded. "And this bullet merely btirned the top of his right fhoulder, while another passed through his biceps without touching the hone. His most severe wound Is this jal> In the hip." They stripped every stitch of rloth|pg from Webster and went over him Carefully. At the back of his head tfiey found a little clotted blood from 4 small spilt In the scalp; also they found a lump of generous proportions, pacheco laughed briefly but contentedly. iiiru ib?7 in uvi r\ rn nrinruBijr iu* Jored?" Rlcardo Interrupted that Igugh. I would die of fright If I had to light this flue fellow a month from today," the Httle doctor chirped. The man Is In superb physical condition; 1t is the hump on the head that renders him unconscious?not loss of blood." As If to confirm this expert testimony Webster at that moment breathed long and deeply, screwed up his face and shook his head very slightly. Thereafter for several minutes he pave no further evidence of an active Interest In life?seeing which Pacheco decided to take prompt advantage of |rts unconsciousness and probe the -r y.wr tr , iiirw.,.i.r ^j^1'"' | 4N'SMAN V ? ' ' iter B. Kync \uthor of "Cappy (icks," "The Valley rf the Giants," Etc. . Ci|)i^i1|W>il Ky? . the fragments of clothing which the bullets must have carried Into them. After ten minutes of probing Paebeco announced that he was through and ready to bandage; whereupon John Stuart Webster said faintly but very distinctly, In. English: "I'm awfujtly glad you are. Doc', tt hurt, like h??II Dld'you manage to get a bite cjn that fishing $lp?" "Jack Webster, you scoundrel*!" Rlcardo yelled Joyously, ahd he shook the patient ^tii entire disregard of the latter'a wounds. man. Fm * glad you're ni)t dead." "Your sentiments appeal to me strongly, my ^friend. I'm?too?Ured to look?at y&L Wffb'- tha devil?are you?" Fell a silence, while Webster prepared for another speech. "Where am IF' "In the jxiTkce. We won pulledup. snd that forty-thousand dollar bet of yours Is safe. I'll cash the ticket for you tomorrow morning.". "D n the forty thousand. Where's my Croppy Boy?" ' "Your What?"-" "My wild Irish blackthorn, Don Juan Cafetero." "I hope, old man, he has ere now that which all brave Irishmen and true deserve?a harp with a crown In life the Irish have the harp without the crown, you know." "How did he die?" Webster whinpered. "He died hard, with the holes In front?and he died for you." Two blR tears trickled slowly through Webster's closed lids and rolled across his pale cheek. "Poor, lost, lones.?r.:?3, misunderstood wreck," h? murmured presently, "he was an extremist In all th!ngR. He used to sing those wonderfully poetic ballad* of hts people?I remember one thnt begun: Green were the fields where my forefathers dwelt.' I think his heart was In Kerry?so we'll send him there. He's my dead, Ricardo; care for his body, because I'm?going to plant Don Juan with the?shamrocks. They didn't understand him here. He was an exile?so i'm going to send him? home." "He shall have a military funeral." Rlcnrdo promised. "From the cathedral," Webster added. "And take a picture of It for his n entile Ho tnlH mo ulimit tvioe I want them to think he amounted to something, after all4 And when you tret this two-by-fdur republic of yburs going again, Rick, you might have your congress award Don Juan a thousand dollars oro for capturing Sarros. Then we can send the money To his old folks." . "But he didn't capture Sarros," Rlenrdo protested. "The man escaped when the guards cut their way through." "He didn't. That was a ruse while he beat it out the grfte where you found me. I saw Don Juan knock him cold with the butt of his rifle after Td brought down his horse." "Do you think he's there yet?' "He may be?provided all thiwdtdn't happen the day before yesterday. If I wanted him,* I'd go down and 'look for hltp, Rick." 'Til go right away, Jack." "One minute, then. Send a man around to that little back street where they have the wounded?it's a couple of blocks nway from here?to tell Mother Jenks and the young lady with her I'll not be back." "They're both outside now. They must have gone looking for' you, because they found you and Don Juan r first and then told me about It." "Who told you?* "Mother Jenks." 1 "Oh! Well, run along and get jrour man." Rlcnrdb departed on the run, taking the sentry at the door with him and in his haste giving no thought to Mother Jenks and her companion waiting for the doctor's verdict. In the palace grounds he gathered two more men and bade them follow him; leading by twenty yards, he emerged at the gate and paused to look around him. Some hundred feet down the street from the palace gate Sarros* buy charger lay dead. When Webster's bullet brought the poor beast down,' his rider hud fallen clear of him, only to fall a victim to the ferocity of Don Juan Oafetero. Later, as Sarros lay stunned and bleeding beside his mount, the stricken anlmnl In Its death-struggle had half risen, only to fall again, this thue on the extended left leg of his late master; consequently when Sarros recovered consciousness following the thoughtful attentions of file assailant, It waa to discover himself a hopeless prisoner. The heavy carcass of his horse pinned his foot and part of his leg to the ground, rendering him as helpless and desperate as a trapped anlmnl. For several minutes now he had heetl striving rAloaaa himself; with his sound tight leg pressed against the animal's backbone he tried to gain sufficient purchase to withdraw his left Teg from the carcass. As Rlcardo caught sight of Sarnie he instinctively realised that this was his mortal enemy; motioning his men to stand back, he approached the struggling man on tiptoe and thoughtfully possessed himself of the dictator's pistol, which lay In back of him, but not out of reach. Just as he did so, Sarros, apparently convinced of the futility of his efforts to free himself, to fate an<* commenced 7\ i> ""l ' ] " * v * * V ?" '! H ' ' " ? and defpfl^-. ,., * /?* . ^ ' Rlcaydo watched, hkn /or a few seconds, for thqre was Just sufficient of the blood 'of his CastWIan ancestors still In his veins to render this sorry spectucle rather an enjoyable one to him. Besides, he was 60 per cent Iberian, a race which can hate quite i as thoroijRhly- as It can love, and for a time Hlcnrdo even nourished the thought of still further Indulging his thirst for revenge by pretending to aid Sarros In his escape! Presently, however, he put the ungenerous ' thought from him; seizing the dead horse b> the tall, he drugged the carcass off his enemy's leg, and while Sarros sat up. tallor-fashlon. and commenced to rub, the circulation back Into the bruised member, Itlcardo seated himself on the rump of the dead horse and appraised his prisoner critically. Sarros glanced, up, remembensi hl^ manners and very heartily and gracefully thanked his deliverer. "It is nut u matter for which thanks are due me, Sarros," Rlcardo replied coldly. "1 am Rlcardo Lulz Ruey, and I have come hack to 'Sobrante to pay my father's debt to you. You will remember having forced the obli- ! gat Ion upon me in the cemetery Some fifteen years ago"." For perhnps ten horrified seconds Sarros stared at Rlcardo; then the I dark blood In him qame to his defense: | his tense pose relaxed; the fright ' and despair left his swarthy counte- | nance as if erased with" a moist sponge, 'leaving'him as calmly stoical and indifferent as a dgarstore Indian. He fumbled in his coat pocket for a gold cigarette case, selected a clga- | ! rette. lighted it and blew smoke at 1 Rlcardo. The jig was up; he knew It; and with admirable ripnchalnnce he declined to lower his presidential . dignity by discussing or considering It. | He realize,! It would delighif his cap- ! tor tr ':.iow he dreaded to fuce the Issue, and It was not a Sarros practice to give aid and comfort to the enemy. "Spunky devil!" Rloardo reflected, forced to admiration despite himself. Aloud he said: "You know the code of our people, Sarros. An eye (or ! in eye and a tooth for a tooth." Sarros bowed. "I am at your serv- 1 See." he replied carelessly. "Then at dnvlight tomorrow morn- ; Ing I shnll make settlement." Uicanio ( beckoned his men to approach. "Take i this man and confine him under a double guard In the arsenal," he or- ! dored. "Present my compliments to the ollicer in charge there and tell : him It Is my wish that a priest he | provided for the prisoner tonight, and j that tomorrow morning, at six o'clock, , a detail of six men and n sergeant escort this man to the cemetery In j the rear of the C'atedral de la Cruz, j I will meet the detail there and take j . command of It." | Two of Iticardo's Imported fighting men stepi>od to the prisoner's side, j seized him, one by eneh arm. and lifted hint to his feet; supported be j twwn them, lie limped away to his ' | doom, while his youthful conqueror I remained seated on the dead horse. his gaze bent upon the ground, his t mind dwelling, not upon his triumph over Sarros hut upon the prodigious proportions of the task before him; the rehabilitation of a nation. After a while he rose and strolled rtver town rd the gate, where he paused to note the grim evidences of the final stand of Webster and Don Juan Cafetero before passing through the portal. Hienrdo had now, for the first time ! an opportunity to look around him; ao he halted to realize his home-coming. to thrill with this, the 'first real view of the home of his boyhood. The spacious lawn surrounding the palace had been plowed and senfred with bursting shrapnel from the:.field guns i captured In the arsenal, although the 1 building Itself had been llUJe 'damaged, ' not having sustained a djfect hit because of Rieurdo's stringent orders 1 not to use artillery on the -pnlace un- ' less absolutely necessary to smoke Sarros out. Scattered over the grounds ' Rlcardo counted some twenty-odd government soldiers, all wearing that pathetically flat, crumpled appearance ' which seems Inseparable from the I bodies of men killed In notion Tiin first shrapnel had probably com- 'I menced to drop In the grounds Just as a portion of the palace garrison had 1 been marching out to Join the troops I fighting at the cantonment barracks 1 | Evidently the men had scattered like 1 quail, only to be killed as they ran. From tfils grim sct?ne Rlcnrdo raised his eyes to the palace, the castellated towers of which, looming through the ' tufted palms, were reflecting the set 1 ting sun. Over the balustrade of one 1 of the upper balconies the limp bodv 1 of a Sarros sharpshooter, picked off from the street, drooped grotesquely, I hla arms hanging downward as If In 1 Ironical welcome to the son of Ruey I the Beloved, The sight Induced In < Rlcardo a sense of profound sadness; i his Irish Imagination awoke; to him ! that mute figure seemed to call upon l him for pity, for kindness, for for- i bearance, for understanding and svm- I pathy. Those outflung arms of the s martyred peon symbolized to Rlcnrdo i Ruey the spirit of liberty, shackled Rab-my-tims kills pain. 40 NOTICE ' NTi.f ii i . I avvvaww ww VliV 0?WI\IIUIUVin VI biu: I Farmers' Mercantile Co., located at ' Chesterfield, S. C. i A meeting of the stockholders of \ the Farmers' Mercantile Co., located < at Chesterfield, S. 0>? will be held at i the store of the said company, Chesterfield, S. C, June 3, 1921, 6 P. M., < for the purpose of considering a reso lution that said company go into liqui- 1 dation, wind up its affairs and their charter be dissolved. Notice given this April 9, 1921. I 4t-22 P. M. Therrell, Secretary. j 666 cures Dengue Fever. 40 . K9JULI4ULII i OUiURANTBBD llsicm duxmx wmmxdihm i /|T h/J (Hoofs Sehre and Soep), 6UI la I U fl ^ yilflBl r4 IteK. gesswie. Tty ?hit U??? ? <?? Ml iMh 1 H<!3UUM3fi Pwfct . i? ' e kg a * KiM hhibbssmb * jkn .V. s.' The same star built into U. i into U. S. Tttl v > .. . ' i-. 'm l> r ? *4 ~ "LJ ': . J i z \ Uni Unite 1 I MIDDLETON II LUCAS AUT( * - ? und helpless, calling irpon hlM for dellvernnce; they.'ItroygUt to-his alert , mind n clearer realization of the iluty. t>Wi O Kin ??.?- I- - ' i V ...... ..?.- iimji in- Him rver iiad i>efore. lie had a great task to perform, h task inaugurated by his father, and which Rlcardo could not hope to fin- ' Ish in ills lifetime. He must solve the agrarian problem; lie must develop the rich natural resources of his country; he must provide free, com--; pulsory education and evolve from ; the Ignorance of the peon an Intellipence that would build up that which Sobrante, In common with her sister ' republics, so wickedly lacked?the great middle class that stands always as a buffer .between the aggression and selfishness of the upi>er class and the helplessness and childishness of the lower. Rlcardo bowed his head. "Help me, [) Lord." he prayed. "Thou hast given me In Thv wisdom a man's task. Tlelp me that I may not prove unworthy." ? * ? i ? Mother Jenks, grown impatient at the lack of news concerning Webster, left Dolores to her grief in the room acrps.s (he hall and sought the' open air, for i >f late she had been experiencing with ;; recurring frequency a slight feeling of ! mffocation. She sat down on the broad granite steps, helped herself to a much-needed "bracer" from her brandy (task and was gazing pensively at the <cene around her when Rlcardo came up the stairs. "'Kiln!" Mother .lenks saluted him. 'We're 'ave you heen. Mr. Rowersr*" "1 have Just returned from captuftng Karros. Mrs. Jenks. He Is on his way to the arsenal under guard." i "Cor' strike me pink !" the old lady pried. "'Ave I Hyed to see this day!" Her fare was wreathed In n happy jmlle. "I wonder 'ow the beggar feels to 'ave the shoe on the other foot. eh? the 'enrtless 'ound; I'm 'opln' this General Ruey will 'ave the blighter ?hot." "Yon need have no worry on that icore. Mrs. Jenka. I'm General Kue.v. Andrew Bowers was Just my summer name, as It were." "Angels guard me! Wot the bloomIn' 'ell surprise won't we 'ave next. 4* lllsiSisSS ITJBEfe S idard of -quality S. Tirea is put bos. in ol h< w ' << "Find the U. S. Tire dealt with the full, completely mixed line of fresh. hv\ U. S. 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