Show A S TOXY STORY OP OF T THE Z i FREEING OF CUBA A ty perry r un aw amthor of td aten priam irl or tc co 2913 im SYNOPSIS lieutenant holton hollon Is detached from rom hi his command in the navy at the tha outset of the tha spanish american war and assigned aBBl Bd to important secret service duty while dining at a washington hotel he detects a wal waiter t er in the act ot of robbing a beautiful young n v lady ady she thanks him for hit him service rou and n d gives elves her name as fiusa bliss la to tossa sa a cuban patriot later he meets her at a ball A secret service man warns warna hoi ton that the girt girl la Is a spy niles miss LA tessa leaves leav s tor for her horne homo in cuba holton Is ordered to follow her they meet on the tampa train alsa all s 8 la bossu tells tella holton bolton una she Is a cuban spy and expresses doubt regarding the sincerity ot of the united states holton Is ordered to remain at tampa to guard the troop transports lie he raves the transports from destruction at the hands bands of 0 dynamiters dyna miters and reports to admiral sampson for or further duty holton Is sent to general garcias Gar clas claa command in the guise of a newspaper cor respondent I 1 to 0 investigate cuban plots plot against the american troops and to it learn 1 the plans of 0 the spanish navy ile iia detects d a a trusted cuban leader in the work nt nf ro fomenting trouble among the cubans I 1 in n the interests of the ambrif sp spaniards an ards holton holto n i Is seized 1 l z M bv f friends lends of the spy and latr later 0 ordered r d e red e executed xe c buted an a spy lie ile escape escapes e it and id raves paves the thai american troops fr from OM fm falling I 1 ng into a spanish ambush lie he learns lear n 0 from general barcia that the spy la is J jose e chesnola Ce snola one of the most moist trusted leadis lea drs derli holton takes part in the battle at san SAD juan red as aa a spanish soldier he enters santiago san tiago roes goes at night to the home borne of ills bliss la tossa where he overhears a discussion or of the tha spanish plans by leading army and navy commanders ile he learns that the spanish fleet will leave the harbor at santiago on july 3 holton escapes and arrives in sight of the american fleet flee in time to see the flagship sall sail away after frantic signaling he Is ansi answered verea by the brooklyn Uro Dro oklyn he warns schley pf af the intentions of the spanish fleet and witnesses the destruction on and capture of the vessels I 1 arns that shatter shafter has received a message nies from president mckenley declaring c arax sag that t the war was instituted for the sole purpose of freeing cuba lie he learns that ft a meeting of dissatisfied cubans Is to be held that night to plot lot gf the tha american army ile he gives ves miss la tossa the presidents message CHAPTER al XIV shifting triumphs replying to holtons warning that she bhe must do nothing that would place her in a dangerous position bliss la tossa laughed it to Is nothing I 1 can assure you she sha averred this Is really camall a small matter well gr grumbled u ambled holton 1 I hope so but I 1 shall go with you yau you shall not she replied emphatically but my dear mr bir holton Il olton there are no buts ats you cannot cannot cannot como come this much I 1 shall do returned holton with decision 1 I shall accompany you to sevilla and will remain bidden in a place where I 1 can hear you call it you want me she laughed my aly bold cavalier her voice was gentie so 80 you shall and it if I 1 want you ou I 1 will call bood holton moved to his bis horse shall we be going at sevilla which consists ot of about three buildings or rather did consist of three buildings in those warlike days of 1898 hamon took the road load to his camp while miss alias la tossa holton and pierre urged their horses borses in the Al direction of the building whose roof the young cuban had pointed out earlier in the evening perhaps fifty yards from this structure rose a thick growth of bushes and here miss la tossa halted you will remain here mr holton I 1 VV near the fire stood miss la latassa toa she said and alerre will accompany me ing you yon will call me if 1 you need me asked holton YON yea truly and s aln in any event I 1 ahall come ts to you here after I 1 have to my countrymen all right good luck sho kissed he her hand gayly to him 0 or r at least holton so B interpreted her gesture ge but dimly sien seen in the darkness lie ho was quite certain that he be kissed his hand to her his horse he waited for perhaps ten en minutes but hearing bearing nothing hla his natu l fm asserted itself and ct wiling out of the bushes he disobey isil the girls injunctions IT ha way nearer bearc r the buildings building he finally naile nade aulle certain that there was nothing ir ic elat sid sidn it and crawling to the ca corner ner he peered in and here ho he saw things first there was a are and around it were gathered he h judged about fifty cuban cubah officers and soldiers their f faces aces w were ere somber and their manner portentous near the fire stood miss let la tossa talking animatedly to several officers who were listening to her with bared heads and other marks of deference def erenea As she spoke however a man in the uniform of a captain rose and clapped his bis bands the men to whom the girl was speaking withdrew their attention from her and as a matter 0 of t fact nhe herself appeared to make no effort to hold bold them on the contrary as soon as the ot fleer clapped his hands evidently preparatory to speaking she walked away from the group and gave gava her entire attention to this man countrymen he ha said 1 I think we all recognize that in the abo event of the success of the americans cuba will receive no benefit whatever it will be a case merely of changing masters and as tor for me between the spaniards from whose stock we sprang and the americans the yankees who are utterly alien give me tho the spaniards we have already felt their heel yve we know what their scorn Is and their contempt the man was lashing himself to a fury PI 1 I myself was shouldered out of the trail by a young pig pie of an officer not live five days ago and when I 1 drew my sword a pig of a yankee private knocked me down with his hand Is this friendship I 1 ask you brothers Is this what we were led to expect from our friends ot of the north our saviors our deliverers but juan juam interrupted an elderly captain that Is all personal I 1 myself have felt the contempt which the americans feel tor for us but I 1 should be willing to suffer more than contempt tor for ray count rys freedom I 1 have already r ada stiff buffered ered as aa you know ot at the hands of our oppressors contempt Is very mild and easily to be borne when our liberty Is the reward for it if you have nothing ingre more than narratives of personal affronts to give us u I 1 for one shall not be very much impressed dahl bahl the voice of the first speaker rose almost to a shriek 1 I 1 t I 1 put my personal feelings above my patriotism so you bayl that that was merely my beginning walt wait un til I 1 have finished and then let mii m hear your sneers it if sneers you have left well well go on I 1 am wal waiting tang ans answered the older man so resumed the speaker we all know what this generous nation of yankees this nation so given to establishing tab lishing freedom throughout the world intends to do with the philippine islands their newspapers leave us jio no doubt as to that imperialism realism ml 1 that la Is the cry in the tb 0 united states they have received their taste 0 of aggrandizement and abid the the taste is good havo have you been deat deaf to tho the talk about the american camp what Is the word vord you hear oft ofte neat enest anong among their officers ill tell you world power I 1 that is what they say world power A sort eort of 0 low cry went the rounds of his hearers and holton could see that the speaker was bringing them one and all beneath his spell lie sat down looking gloomily al at the ground paying no attention to the round ot of hand clapping that attended his bis peroration por for a moment no one stirred it appeared as though all were thinking digesting the eloquence that had bid been poured into their ears then another man arose holton leaned forward with ith a gasp it was the spy the waiter of the new willard Wll lard come tonight to place the capstone capston 0 upon the spell he had been weaving among the off officers leers of the cuban army brothers he be began 1 I came here her tonight to counsel prudence and in fact I 1 do so counsel you now holtons face filled with amazement what was he getting at in a few moments he found out 1 I do most earnestly counsel prudence he ha continued there are things that roust must be borne the soldiers of the united states have come here well good we brought them hero here at least so BO it would appear appedu of course we believe that these men were sent here because of at the great yearning of the united states to see us a tree free unshackled country and so they have come down docu here to set us free and then having done so eo to retire with a blessing and to contemplate with pride the g growth crowth or of the republic trea free and untrammeled so much we know the spaniards will be driven from the island will and then will these americans americana turn tum to um and say behold here is your country take it and develop it and mako make it great and ruay may god be with you so I 1 say prudenco but bat on oa the other band there are some of 0 us who may pria sess w wll 11 lorried doubts aa to the truth of the beau taul ord picture i 1 navy nave painted for you yes there are who doubt damnably has the united states ever been known to talk one way and act another to those thosa who know the political history of that great nation I 1 need say no more to those who do not I 1 say aay that governmental policies in the united states are fickle jades blown willy nilly by the winds of public opinion they are arc valueless as things to depend upon they are trivial oven even to ton consider sider and yet he raised his hand to still a rising growl of voices and yet yat still I 1 counsel prudence why roar roared edn a hoarse voice from the darkness why I 1 can answer you bod simply because we are weak we have been in thes tha field fighting for several yea years rs but we are not soldiers at least the americans say so you have heard them one moment as the murmur arose again oh no we aro are not soldiers but the tha americans are we know that they are soldiers sold lera who have sold cloth find and beans land and sugar and perchance per chanco may have sold kunal and so BO they aro are soldiers soldiers that wo we do well to fear so again I 1 advise prudence always prudenc ils it they leave us our country good abod but if they elect to retain it as an other of their possessions why tood good also for what can we dol do they will be kind hirvi to us they will feed us ua so that we do not starve and they will put trolley trolle yarB cars A fierce yell interrupted him and although ho he raised his bis hand band lo he 10 could abt again regain attention nor bad he need to ile 10 lo had done isla hs work and done it well one man arose holding aloft a sword my countrymen he yelled if by tomorrow night I 1 have bavo not plunged J t you lie vou hound this into the breast of five fire americans I 1 shall plunge it into my own throat A wild cheer greeted his words then came a lull suddenly ag as though the men were seeking outlet for their emotions and chesnola was there to give it to them lie ile bea out hla his hand band all eyes were fastened on him the first word had fallen brorn arom his mouth when the voice of a woman raised in thrilling cadence wiped additional utterance from the says lips As aa holton looked the girl spra sprang 9 to the speakers side and held 0 oit ait 11 it her hand and as she stood thus tte tre naval never forgot the picture sly my countrymen she ahli cried at length 1 I have listened to all who have spoken and I 1 have observed you I 1 havo have wondered whether the fever has got into your brains and whether you are children led hither and thither by the idle words worda of plotters chesnola sprang in front of her and pushed tier her roughly aside PI 1 I resent this intrusion t ho he shouted 1 I resent the presence of this w woman oman what more he would have said may only be surmised tor for the girl her eyes blazing turned to the audience ind and with fluger quivering at the spy she said that man pushed me my countrymen Is there one to avenge me tier er voice was quiet almost unemotional and she looked calmly around the circle it was plain to see she was beloved of these men but it was equally plain that the spell of the says words lay about their minds lu in serpent colls coils she caused 1 I seel chivalry has bas departed from among us I 1 must myself wipe out this gross insult so sa pa ing mid and bufor oen am i build move her riding whip avid in her hand and she struck cebela a blinding blow across the faco from the sheer shock he be went down all aa though hit bit by an ax but he sprang to hla his feet on the instant his fesce e livid with rage hla his hand upon a long hunting bunting knife in another second holton would have been at the girls side but before ho he could move a half balf dozen revolvers flashed in the hands 0 of cuban of officers and the deop deep voice of 0 the elderly captain broke the stillness stop senor ceedola Cc Ce enola neme Reme niler inter who you aro are and remember it well we have listened to you and now we ve will listen to the beautiful and spir cited senorita miss bliss la tossa smiled radiantly thank you she replied 1 I 1 have no burst of eloquence to give you men of cuba I 1 say aay merely that you have bave been badly advised misled by those whose interest st it la Is to mislead you and further I 1 do nothing more than this she flashed aloft president bickin leys dispatch and then handed it to the cuban captain who read it and then in silence passed it around the circle at length as it was about to go into Ces nolas hands miss la tossa intercepted the tha paper and extended it to an offices whom she knew 1 I do not wish this to pass into that mans hands she said will you read it to him major the officer complied compiled and then returned the dispatch h to tho tha girl with a bow gentlemen cried the young woman it n can you ask more than that tha t A cheer not a general cheer but still fairly satisfactory in its strength greeted her words As it died out chesnola stood forth raising his bis hand lie ile regarded the girl malignantly let us know one thing he be snarled where did you got get that message are ara you miss la tossa stamped her foot Si silence lencel I 1 she cried to you I 1 shall not speak another word it if any gentleman sho she emphasized tho the term at it any true cuban cubana thin word she also emphasized wishes to question me I 1 will gladly respond well replied an officer iwo wo ask aak you then to answer tho the statement lust just made by senor chesnola Ce snola it is easily answered she returned quickly 1 I 1 am not in general bratt ors confidence ile he does not give to mo me his private messages and you received this then queried tho the of officer fleer prom from art an officer who possesses the confidence of general shatter not only but 0 of president mckinley ile he is a cuban officer suggested the questioner he ahl ah V banol sprang for forward allow we IDO to tell you who ho he la Is then without heeding the girls ro icons rating voice he ran on like a wl wild d man ile he is tin an american naval officer who has beon been spying among us throughout this campaign and before you know I 1 wag waa in washington and in tampa before the americans declared war and you know much that I 1 saw and 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