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Show Rainbows End ..A NOVEL,. & X BY REX BEACH 1 Author of The Iron Trail, "The Spoilers' Heart of the Sunset' etc. Copyright $ hy Harper aod Brother. (Continued from last week.) SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I Don Esteban Varona, a Cuban planter, possesses a great treasure hoard. Tins wealth lias been hidden in a well on the estate by Sebastian, a slave, anVJ only be and bis master know the se- cret cache. Don Estebans wife dies at the birth of twins. Esteban and Rosa. Don Esteban marries t tie avaricious Donna Isabel, who knows there is hidden ure and tries to wring the secret from Se- bastian. When the slave refuses she tries to hurt him by having Kvangehna. his daughter, whom he lows dearly and who is the special servant of the twins, sold prised him to find that he could strug-- I gle upward through the hnunbles, even though It was hurd work. Men were fighting all around and below him, 'meanwhile, and he wondered vaguely what made them kill one another when tie and his negroes were all dead or It seemed very strange of a dying. piece with the general unreality of and It troubled him not a lit- tie. One of his arms was useless, he discovered, and he realized with a curious shock that It was broken. He was (deeding, too, from more thun oue wound, hut he could walk, after a fashion. Ue was Inclined to stay and finish the light, but he recollected that Itosa would be waiting for him and that he must go to her, and so he set out across the fields, staggering through the charred cane stubble. The night was not so black as it had been, and this puzzled him until he saw that the plantation house was ablaze. Flames were belching from its windows, cast- ing abroad a lurid radiance; and remembering Fancho Cueto, Esteban lauuhed. Fy nnd by, after he was well away, his numbness passed and he begun to suffer excruciating pain. The puiu had been there all the time, so it seemed; he was simply gaining the capacity to feel it. He was ready to die now, be was so ill ; moreover, his left arm dangled and got in his way. Only that subconscious realization of the neces- Site to keep going for IlOSas sake hi,,, ,J1 Daylight came at last to Show him his av More than once he paused, alarmed, at voices In the woods, only to find that the sounds issued from his farther Into the hills, and Asenslo told the two women that he and they must also go. So the three gathered up what few things they could curry on their backs and fled. j j CHAPTER II Through Donna Isabels Don Esteban risks Evangelina at cards and loses. Crazed by the loss of his daughter. Sebastian kills Don Esle- ban and himself CHAPTER III Many years Donna Isabel searched for Che hidden wealth of the man she had matriod A few years later she seeks to marry Rosa to the rich Don own throat. Mario, but Rosa is promised to OEellly, It had grown very hot now, so hot the American, and awaits his return from New Yotk, whence he has yone to break that s obscured his vision nd caused the most absurd forms to enSenni. seemly Insurrectos. take shape. He begun to hunt aimless CHAPTER IV Donna Isabel ts at the ly for water, hut there was none. Evi- mercy of Pancho Cueto. her unscruputhis heat had parched the land, lous administrator, who knows the deeds deiitly dried up the streams, and set the to the plantation are lost with the treasure. One night she walks In her sleep stones afire. It was incredible, but and meets her death In the treasure well. true. Esteban and Rosa are forced to flee when Cueto denounces them as rebels. Estehan reasoned that he must he writes to OReilly near home by this time, for he had CHAPTER osa of their plight and urges him to come been traveling for days for years. The and save her. country, indeed, was altogether unfaCHAPTER VI OReilly soon lands In miliar; lie I'ould not recall ever having Cuba, but finds he will have hard work to reach Rosa, as communication with seen the path lie trod, hut for that matthe Insurrectos is difficult and danger- ter everything was strange. In the ous. first place he knew that he was going CHAPTER VII OReilly meets Resile west, nnd yet the morning sun persisted Branch, newspaper man. who is a victim of tuberculosis, and they plan a way to in beating hotly into his face! That Join the Insurrectos together. alone convinced him that things hud CHAPTER VIII In the meantime Cueto gone awry with the world. He could plans to lead Coho, a Spanish colonel of remember a great convulsion of some Volunteers, execrated for his cruelty, to sort, hut just what it was he had no the hiding place of Esteban and Rosa. clear iden Evidently, though, It had CHAPTER IX Coho and hts men capture Rofia, but she Is Immediately res- been sufficient to change the rotation cued by Esfeban, and Cnho is injured in the fight. O'Reilly plans to reach the In- of the earth. Yes. that was it; the surrectos by the aid of Doctor Alvarado, earth was running backward upon its a friend of the Cuban cause. axis; he could actually feel it whirling CHAPTER X OReilly Is about to under his feet. No wonder his journey reach the Insurrectos. but his plans mis- seemed so arlong. He was laboring over carry. He and Leslie Branch areEstea glgautkr treadmill, balancing like an rested and sent back to America. ban tells Rosa of the coming of Oeneral equilibrist upon a revolving sphere, the island jWeyler to "pacify tv'. II. it was a simple matter to stop CHAPTER XI Estehan raids Cuetos sit down, and allow himself walking, ;home and kills him. but Spanish troops come up and Estehan escapes badly to he spun backward around to the 'wounded. He does not reach home. With Esteban missing. Rosa. Evangelina and place where Rosa was waiting. He (her husband. Asenslo. with whom Rosaj pondered this idea for some time, unlhas been staving, give up hope and go til ils absurdity became apparent. Unhnto a Spanish coneentration camp. doubtedly he must he going out of his Instantly there began a blind battle lo ad ; he saw that it was necessary to In desperately cramped of quarters. keep walking until the hack-spi- n Riders fought stirrup to stirrup with that treadmill brought Rosa to him. clubbed rifles and machetes; saddles But the time came when he could were emptied and the terrified horses walk no farther. He tried repeatedly bolted. Some of them lunged up the and failed, and meanwhile the earth banks, only to tumble down again, spun even more rapidly, threatening to their threshing limbs and sharp-showhirl him off into space. It was a terhoofs working more havoc than blows rible sensation; he lay down and e from l.ugged the ground, dinging to roots Of course, after the first moment of end sobbing weakly. Rosa, he knew, .conflict. Estebun had not been able to was just around the next bend in the exert the least control over his men; trail; he called to her, hut she did not In fact, he could not make himself answer, and he dared not attempt to heard. Nor could he spare the breath creep forward because his grip was to shout; he was too desperately en- failing, lie could feel his fingers slip- gaged. His rifle was empty, lie had its piagslill,)ing His last thought, as lie hot barrel in his hands; he dimly dis- - wpn(. wlllrIInK pn(1 over en(j through tinguished Asensio wielding his mach- space, was of his sister. She would ete. Then he found himself down never know how hard he had tried to dnd half stunned. Something smote reach her. him heavily, at last whether a hoof or a he could not tell and Late on the second day after the batnext he was on trying to drag tle Asenslo returned to his bohio. Rosa But his and himself out of this rat-pi- t. Evangelina. already frantic at the limbs were queerly rebellious, and lie delay, Heard him crying to them while was sick ; he had never experienced lie was still hidden in the woods, nnd anything quite ljjte this and he thought knew that the worst had happened. he must he wohndod. It greatly sur- - There was little need for him to tell Ills story, for lie was weaponless, and bloody. lie had crossed the hills on foot after a miraculous es- cape from that ravine of death. Of liis companions he knew nothing what- ever; the mention of Esteban's name enured him to beat ids breast and cry aloud. He was weak and feverish, and liis incoherent story of tlie midnight encounter was so highly colored that Rosa nearly swuoned with horror. Tlie girl stood swaying while he told how the night had betrayed them, how he had wrought incredible feats of valor before tlie shifting tide of battle had spewed him out the end of the sunken road and left him half dead in tlie grass. Asensio had lain there until, finding himself growing stronger, he had burrowed into a tangle of vines at tlie foot of a wall, where he had remained until tlie fighting censed. When tlie Spaniards had finally discovered tlieir mistake and had ceased riding one another down, when lights came nnd lie heard Colonel Coho cursing them like one insane, he had wriggled away, crossed the calzada. and hidden in the woods until dawn. He had been walking ever since; he had come home to die. Asensio recovered, but he was sadly changed. There was no longer any martin! spirit in him; he feared the Spaniards, and tales of their atrocities heat-wave- 2u& 1 V-R- 1 " j They did not stop until they had gained the fastnesses of the Fan de Mutiinzus. Here they built a shelter and again took up the problem of lug, which was now more difficult tliau ever. The Fan de Matanzns, so called because of Its resemblance to a mighty loaf of bread, became a mockery to the hungry people cowering in its shelter. Bread ! Jtosa Varona could not remember when she had last tasted such a luxury. Uaw cane, coconuts, the tasteless fruita bomba, roots, the pith from palm tops, these were her articles of diet, and she did nol thrive upon them. She was always more or less hungry. She was rugged, too, and she shivered miserably through the long, chill nights. Rosa could measure the change in her appearance only by studying her reflection from the surface of the spring where she drew water, but she could see that she had become very thin, and she judged that the color had entirely gone from her cheeks. It saddened her, for O'Reillys sake. Time came when Ascnsio spoke of giving up the struggle nnd going in. They were gradually starving, he said. nd Rosa was ill ; the risk of discovery was ever present. It was better to go while they had the strength than slowly hut surely to perish here. He had heard that there were twenty thousand reconcent ratios in Malanzas; in such a crowd ihey could easily manage to hide themselves; they would at least he fed along with the others. No one had told Asensio that the government was leaving its prisoners to shift for themselves, supplying them with not a pound of food nor a square jnch of shelter, Misery bred desperation at Iasi ; Evangellnas courage failed her, and she allowed herself to he won over. She began her preparations by disguising Rosa. Gathering herbs and berries, she made a stain with which she coland body, then she ored tlie girl's sewed a bundle of leaves into the hack of Rosas waist so that when the latter stooped her shoulders and walked wilh a Stick her appearance of deformity vva complete. On the night before their departure Rosa Varona prayed long and earnestly, asking little for herself, hut much for the two black people who lmd suffered so much for her. She prayed also that OReilly would come before It was too late. fa-c- CHAPTER XII. A Woman With a Mission. Within a few hours after O'Reillys return to New York he telephoned to Felipe Alvarado, explaining briefly tlie disastrous failure of his Cuban trip. "I feared as much, the doctor told : I gun-stoc- k cowed him. Then Cohn came into the Yunturl. The valley, already deserted, was filled to the brim with smoke from burning fields and houses, and through It tlie sun showed like a copper shield. 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"This lady who is coming here tonight has influence with Enriquez, Alvarado told him. "You remember I told you that she lias contributed erally. Site might help you. O'Reilly had met women wilh ideals, with purposes, with avocations, and his opinion of them was low. Women wlto had missions were always liro-- I some, lie had discovered. Tills one, it V appeared, was unusual only in Hint she had adopted a particularly exacting form of charitable work. Nursing, even us a rich womans diversion, must lie anything hut agreeable. OReilly pictured this Evans person in his mind a large, plain, elderly creature, obsessed with impractical ideas of uplifting the masses! She would undoubtedly Imre him stiff with stories of Her work; she would repnauh him with neglect of liis duties to the suffering. Johnnie was too poor lo he charitable and too deeply engrossed ' at the moment with his own troubles to care anything whatever almut tlie "masses. And she was a "miss. 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