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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
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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
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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 '
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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
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...... ..?.- 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."
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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.
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mm wiim pmuaeni neiore ?nrros snot
1m? Antonio Ruey, who was "?rf
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Attorney-at-l.aw
Office in Courthouse
Chesterfield, S. C.
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Office on second fioor in Ross
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OHice in Rear of Rank of
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