| Show 0 Z ZY y copyright 1901 by really daily story tub rul C Ca carambat rambal and then the assistant manager having dented his only span lh ish swear word fell back on english what the deuce la Is that din under the window were three worn en one raked riot from an inspru ment or torture one sang bang in bolce oce of brassbound brass bound barrenness and ono one stood weeping shoot the syllabus ey sy labus he exclaimed softly it if you be the musical voices and tweet sweet guitar or of spain may the devil fly away with your prospectus but why doth the fair one weep As there was no one in the office to answer this question and na as he was quite new to porto rico pendleton Pend lelon set bet to work to piece out the song it uch it could be called tor for himself lie ile knew spanish book h but the music and the abo voice were too much for his translating ile he shouted impatiently to them to stop tho the music end and go slow blow the older women obe ed ad delighted to have attracted th the L at of the ruh rih Am amerlean Ameil eilean can all americans americana are rich in porto rico and the younger woman pushed her face farther into her hands whether sho she wept or whether she bhe just stood listen tug ing to that doleful song pendleton could not toll tell but by littles he made out no meaning of it all it was her tale of woo that the beggars were wera relating in their song A true tale he be fancied seeing how she seemed to bow beneath the shame of it A sorry one even for a native of poi boito to rico it if it was true pendleton hailing from a particularly prosperous section of the states was mall new nen to beggars and their wiles beblis he be not pow pom eibl work with nith that demon alko din going on tinder hla bla window lie ile went out into tho and to tho the woman soman who was N eel ing or pt to 1 see bet ceic e lie ho said in abi abrupt apt amer lean fashion what ahat la Is your name nada she bhe told him nada ahat means nothing it to la my name senor benor it suits stilts ou oil i elicited the oung roan man grimly for she did appear t to 0 be as aa mar nothing as an ani human being could be warn to the bone with pit pil barely covered with ith the short supply of rags that lilt did dut dua as e loth cloth ing Is it true what tilt so lie he jerk ed a motion tile musicians lans it la Is true senor you and your children are at home starving while dour log of a husband gambles rt at ponce A flash of indignation lighted her ver large cies dornino la Is a good hoy boy senor lie he I 1 cannot annot buy brad to feed so BO many mouths months but ill bet he con can buy dulee dulce enough for hla his own mouth pendleton Il luttel why dont iou on work lie he demanded I 1 can pot get no s work ork senor why ill gh ghe e lou clu fifty cents a do da to couill my onice ah cut that heres a dollar go cro pet get somo some decent I 1 V Z 1 I 00 4 I 1 a nada the she told him clothes and then set get to work ss ork T n der the silver lie he had folded a five dot lar bit anti and as he be re heated he be saw nada hurriedly hide bide the paper in her lags ings before her companions auld il biown ossil for thirds they rhey divide A dollar among awong them i hile pendle ltd fiad thir tl tr blessings aada nada as back in an hour allt q lit ica kaisand kaiu to and nd decent tit cent dut bhelt leoCI alle Ue pendleton pent leton j went to bothi A thi window 0 o isnell al jtb sw A ind As found hini confronted with A till a group ot of half starved wholly holly naked linked little na tives lives I 1 that hat hall had followed follow cd their mother 0 to his door it wan viam true chere waa as six of them and the mother barcly bably more than a girl in years I 1 don t see pe what uncle sam la Is per ever going to to do with ith auh a population as uila this le he mutt muttered eted in disgust I 1 it t Is nada all along the he line but for all that Ien dilton got hla his money mones a oreb worth cach morning if lie fancied that tile dark little facen face of his family famil of were gaunt the he lean little 10 pendleton found the body ribs leas in evidence hven nada a eyes gips less fearfully lalle laie and if I 1 at any late was a one family in potto rico filin abtam anlou was A mottling boon came is ban the chilan n a P ees es were pro wolfish iab with hunger nadu aarin in rags where are out oui clothes pendle ton toll demanded nada ald her thlu thin vice nee in her thin hands has our husband hns liand come home ali ah and he has haa rambled gambled away anay otry thing ou oil ila had all ah he insisted it Is tits his bad luck senor his bad luck Is it good hoy boy it la Is his bla bad luck ill bit luck aich him pendleton de lined file but chilling his ire came the tolling of the he plantation lulls solemn and sloat lind and at the sound each man mail gypping gilp ping tits his tru truit 10 in inadi aliete etc tian lan toward ills hla captain tire in the cane fields pendleton shouted to hla his chief alef hut but the chief was already at the door of le inner of fi flee its that domingo Del dilgarde garde he said hotly holly I 1 raw him around here yesterday Seat erday gambling all night now lie he has bas gono to in the held field with mith a cigarette they ran fiction the office together captains and their squads were ither already on the facend ot of dibas ter or bu buering irIng the long line of fighters sti etched itself across the path of tho the lie flie like light the keen machetes machet cs flashed at their Ns or the lane iane opened the thick gion ing calne acre after acre the well trained workers swept onward and following them tame aine those ap pointe to lire fire against the fire it if any human being bo be caught now between those two lines alnes of flame dime may the I 1 0 ord rd have mercy on tits his soil BO for ills his bod Is doomed it was A as pen dittens first experience of a cane flie and hla his pulses leaped fiercely to tile the fleice fielce excitement of it the wild hurry tile the danger and 3 let pit ov r to roar of the fire the cr crackling acklin g boom of the burning sone the monotonous tolling telling of flie cio bells the shouts of the men and the norb bum and ring of the flying machetes pendleton rend leton haard baard lue ills a n ev er ending brending echo that wail tf t f woman woe noe that had broken fihar pl upon the chiefs impatient gone gene to alkek lia la the cane fie bell I 1 x with ith a cigarette I 1 well if the gambling husband ot of nada hall had beeri been the lie fit nit fitt ni t thing burned by the fire lie ho had bad started there would be one less baite to take hla his children ahll 8 bread and throw it to the dogs and yet I 1 suppose it he did dia get laught caught in that hell over there she would to tie heart heartbroken broken pendleton le is flecked impatiently 4 lie ile Is such a L tood bo fr not likely he m was as caught bhough hough enot ot ofton ofte n anybody it Is caught WN jb F fc 0 o d drugged wk 1 t that searf v nev 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