Show T— T It and said was to be all quite still I think Don Frank there is what you call one chip over the bug” In a few words Mackenzie explained the state of affairs to Esteban Knowing the man to be a partisan liberal he made him watch the house to see that no one left It while he himself entered It at once saw that the trigger of Mackenzie 038 was free from pockhis American et lining and ascended the dark stairA saffron light from a hanging way above allowed lamp In the hallway him to select the gaudy numbers on the doors He turned the knob of No 9 and entered and dosed the door behind him If that was Julia Gordon seated by the table in the poorly furnished room report had done her charms no injusone tice She rested her head upon hand Extreme fatigue was signified In every line of her figure and upon her countenance a deep perplexShe looked up when ity was written theAmerican entered In surprised inquiry but without fear and Mackenzie took off his hat seated himself coolly on the edge of the table by which she sat He held a He his between lighted cigar fingers took this course upon the theory that preliminaries would be squandered upon the Senorlta Gordon "Now "Good evening" he said madam let us come to business at once I know who Is in the next room and what he carries in that valise am here to dictate terms of surren- Is a puzzling thing” she continued "you force my door and you follow your ruffianly behavior with the basest accusations and yet" — she paused a moment as If to reconsider what she was about to say — “and yet— I am sure there has been some mistake" She took a step toward the door that connected the two rooms but Mackenzie stopped her by a light touch upon her arm He was a kind the women seem to admire big and with an air of kindly truculence This woman was to be his fate and he did not know it but he must have felt the first throes of destiny for of a sudden of the knowledge what report named her turned bitter In his throat "If there has been any mistake" he said hotly “It has been yours I do not blame that man who has lost his honor his country and Is about to lose the poor consolation of his stolen riches as much as I do jou for I can very well see how he as brought to It by heavens I can understand and pity him It Is such women as you that strew this degraded coast with wretched exiles that drag —" The lady Interrupted him by a ges- ed and “Oh mother bloody room: mother!" But there were shouts of alarm and were feet hurrying coming up the stairs Mackenzie bad his duty to Circumstances had made him perform treasure custodian of the country’s They who were coming might not possess his scruples Swiftly closing the leaned far window valise out O HENRY the he By and softly dropped It into a thick orange tree below They will tell you In Clbolo as they Copyrlght by AUules Uaguius Co) told me bow the shot alarmed the town how the upholders of the law HEY will tell you In no other route was there A week’s came apace — the conunandante in a Anchurla that Presi- trip it was— over fearful mountains jacket and red Bllppers ot that and streams dent Mlraflores a jourwith girded sword the barefooted povolatile republic died by ney hot and and wet and licemen with clanking bayonets and inhla own hand In the dry different mien coast town of Cibola At Corallo was a harbor and strict They saw that the countenance of That he had reached quarantine and clearing regulations the dead man was marred by the thus far In flight from The fugitives would never attempt to fects of the shot but he was identified of escape there the Inconveniences At Clbolo or Alanzan as the an Imminent revolution president by both they might hope to board a tramp and that m quarter of a million pesos Esteban MacKenzle and the barber freighter or a fruit steamer by the aid The story of his flight from the capital government funds which he carried of a rowboat or sloop as the vessels with him In an American leather vabeing made public Just then no furanchored half a mile from shore lise as a souvenir of his tempestuous ther confirmation was deemed necesBut Mackenzie and Zavalla sent administration were never afterward sary So they burled him on the folhorseback down messengers up and found lowing day and bis grave is there poast with warning to the local For a real a muchacho will show the They will relate to you how the revleaders of the liberal movement — to ture you his grave party (now come without olutionary It is back of the town Benavides at Corallo and to Varraa “There coldIs no to be In power) sifted the near a little bridge that spans a man need” she said opposition Alazan— Instructing them to patrol at do town and raked the country to find the ly “to continue your Insults I A plain slab of undressed go swamp line the water and to arrest the flynot understand you nor do I know dead president’s valise containing pine stands at Its head at all hazards If he ing president what mad blunder you are making but Some one has burned upon the head surplus capital but without should show himself in their territory If the inspection of the contents of success though aided by Senor Mackpiece with a hot iron this Inscription: After these precautions there was a gentleman’s portmanteau will rid me enzie himself RAMON ANGEL DE LAS CRUZES to do but cover the Clbolo nothing of you let us delay no longer" You will hear how Mackenzie like a Y MIRAFLORES district with lookouts and await reFRESIDENTE Bhe passed quickly and noiselessly tower of strength shielded Senorlta DE LA REPUBLICA sults The fugitives would beyond der” disInto the other room and Returned with Julia through those subsequent DE ANCHURIA doubt move as secretly as possible The lady neither replied nor moved the heavy leather valise tressful days And how his scruples Mackenzie QUE SEA SU JUEZ DIOS and endeavor to board a vessel by MacIn career the An 'Old but steadily set it upon the table and began to un- as to her past (If he had any) cigar Indian tends this stealth and from some on kenzie's handregarded hiding place fasten the straps She stood by with vanished as her adventuresome waygrave with fidelity and the dawdling shore of Infinite scorn and wardness minuteness of Inherited sloth the dictator — “I an expression “We" continued (if Bhe bad any) disappearOn the eighth day after the receipt ed and To the guests the people of Clbolo of mass of the weariness speak for a considerable they were wedded and were Englehardt’s message the Karlsefln — will relate the story of the tragic of The valise opened wide and Mack- happy demand stolen the return people steamer Norwegian chartered the by But Our terms enzie dragged out one or two articles death of their old president how he New Orleans fruit trade anchored off funds belonging to them they cannot tell you (as I shall) strove to fly with the public funds' and Clbolo They of closely folded clothing exposing the what became of the money that Macwith three hoarse toots of her go very little farther than that Dona Julia Gordon the young Amer- siren are very simple As an accredited bulk of the contents — package after kenzie dropped Into the orange tree Mackenzie stood on the beach for It Is now But that comes later ican opera singer and how before apI promise that our interpackage of tightly packed American spokesman with the crowd of idlers watching those banknotes of large denomination prehended by members of the revoluJudg- time to consider the wishes of without He ference will cease with their acceptostentation everything It is on my personal responsiing from the high figures written upon who desire to learn why Shorty Flynn tionary party in this coast town he and Zavalla had stationed men faithful ance It is deemed fit shot himself through the head rather to bility that I add congratulations to the bands that bound them the total lost his situation cause at intervals along the the that Mr Flynn tell his own story than give up the funds and as fol the gentleman In No 10 upon his taste must have reached Into the hundreds shore for a mile each way from the In MR FYNN'S STORY of thousands lows the Senorlta Gordon saw with feminine charms" Mackenzie They will town on the lookout for President Mland told Ths chief rang up headquarters relate further that Dona Julia her adand a thrill of pleasure that surprise Returning his cigar to his mouth raflores of whom nothing had been me to come quick to an address venturous observed her and saw that he wondered at that the woman expeMackenzie bark of fortune shoaled by seen or heard he gave I went there and found him In The customs officers the simultaneous shock She a private office with a lot of directors loss of her dtstln her eyes followed and rested upon It rienced an unmistakable in their red trousers and Panama hats They with Icy and significant concentration gasped and leaned heavily against the who were lookingThe pretty fuzzy gulshed admirer and the souvenir quarrowed out to the vessel and returned stated the case: president of the then She had been Ignorant ter million dropped anchor on the The she had not heard a word table Apparently Loan and Trust Company had ship’s gig landed her purser with tossed He understood that her companion had looted the gov- skipped with nearly a quarter of a milstagnant coast awaltlDg a rising tide his papers and then took out the he had said The directors wanted him lion In cash The tide' was ready the cigar out of the window and with ernment treasury But why he angrily In the form of doctor with his umbrella quarantine a wealthy American an amused laugh slid from the table asked himself should he be so well back pretty bad but they wanted the resident — a ba- and clinical thermometer Next a They had traced the old money worse to his feet nana king a rubber prince a sarsapaThe lady smiled pleased to find this wandering singer gent to where he boarded a tramp fruit swarm of Caribs began to steamer rilla indigo and mahogany baron “That Is better" she said clipping not so black as report' painted her? The bound for Central America or load the piles of bananas upon lightsomewhere with a big gripsack and his senorlta married this American one ers and row them out to the steamer daughter — all the family he had month after the President was In six hours I was on board a steam About four o’clock in the afternoon buried with military to one of the directors dishonors and a marine monster unfamiliar In those yacht belonging I and hot on the trail of the fruit tub while the “Vivas” of the new admlnis waters hove in sight — a graceful had a pretty good idea where the old boy tratlon were saluting Liberty and pros steam t white Would strike for At that time we had a yacht painted pectlve spoils about every country treaty with as a steel engraving foreign the and that banana repubexcept Belgium It would seem that the Btory Is end waves like a duck in a rain barrel A lic Anchurla There wasn't a photo of ed but to the more curious reader it white boat manned l old Walirfield to be had In New York— by a shall be some slight instruction to formed crew came ashore he had ben foxy there— but I bad hie and learn why the old Indian Balvez Is sescription and besides the lady with him t man leaped upon the would be almost a dead cretly paid to keep green the grave of sands He made his way toward MacWe struck the money coast one afterAlso why Doa kenzie President Mlraflores who was obviously noon about the most four There was a Emilio Villanueva minister of finance conspicuously steamer oft shore taking on bafigure pres nanas It might be the one the old man during the Mlraflores administration and seemed to turn a disapproving ent went had It taken and - should might nnt after dining at Mackenzie’s eye on the rather motley congregation ashore to look areun4r-- t stir house during a short visit to the coast of native Anchurlans Mackenzie can on shore a big cool chap standing make the following remark to a friend: showed around He ths men as him from with the monkeys greeted sprung me the consul's office I say it to you Twenty The consul was island greet one another in alien lands named a Dutchman and he had Brack times in the capital I have taken wine Conversation developed that the new his mitt out for further orders I got in the company of Dona Julia Gordon one was named Smith and what I wanted to know out of him He As many times I have heard her sing said the fruiter loading was the Karlthat he had come In a yacht A meager sefln running to New Orleans but took like the rulsenor that Bhe was Por el was biography truly for the yacht her last cargo to New York on account of cuerpo de Crlsto this Mme Mackenzie most apparent and the Smith not be an overstocked home market Then I was —aunque una Senora muy agrandable sure my as the yond a reasonable people were on board guess before the —Is no more Dona Julia Gordon than I consul said no passengers had landed Yet to the eye of Mac revelation Just then the quarantine doctor dropped myself am Flguraselo!" kenzie who had seen several things In for a chat and he said there was a The threads of the events reach far there was a discrepancy between on and lady fruiter and the gentleman In a few hours A they would come ashore Smith and his yacht stretching across the sea Following as soon as the gent recovered a little them out it will also be made clear ed man Smith was with an oblique So all that I had from a k spell why Shorty Flynn of the Columbia dead eye and the mustache of a cockto do then was to wait detective bureau New York lost his tail mixer Unless he had shifted cosAfter dark I walked around and Also why Dr Angel Job a tumes before leaving for shore he vestigated that town some and It was The main enough to give you the Hons poseur of the bou- had affronted the deck of his correct street ran along the beach and I walked levards of Paris smokes vessel In a derby a checked down It and then turned up a kind of ’ cigars lane where the houses were made of poles suit fancy vest and vaudeville neckand straw I wanted to see what the Clbolo lay in its usual stupor The wear Men owning pleasure yachts "WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?" HE DEMANDED IN EXCELLENT ENG- - monkeys did when they wern’t climbing Caribbean swlBhed upon the sand harmonize with them betgenerally cocoanut trees The very first shack LISH— “ROBBERY?" beach the parrots screamed in the ter looked In I saw my people They must have come ashore while I was promenadrange and celba trees the palms were Smith looked business but he was her words A noise In the other room startled neatly “For a second les about A man ing fifty smooth face He commented no advertiser waving their limber fronds foolishly upon son In good manners you may now tell them both The door swung open and heavy eyebrows dressed In black broadlike an awkward chorus at the prims the scenery remarking upon its fidelcloth me by whom I am being insulted" an elderly looking like he was Just about to donna’s cue to enter little boy In the Sunday "Can say: ity to the pictures in the geography any “I am an Instrument of the republic man half dressed hurried Into school answer that? He was Suddenly the town (was full of exUnited and then inquired for the freezing on I was advised the the room by wire concerning to a grip that weighed like a dozen gold A boy dashed down the citement States consul They pointed out to movements bAcks of the — gentleman in The picture of President Mlraflores end a swell girl— a regular peach street shrieking: “Busca him the starred and Btrlped bunting No 10” with a Fifth avenue cut was sitting on a In extant Gibolo him as represented el Senora Mackenzie Un telegrafo wooden chair An old black woman was hanging on a pole above the door of a the possessor ot a luxuriant and care“I have a or two to ask you fixing some coffee and beans on a table The words spread swiftly por ell” squat adobe house and Smith plow I think you question The light came from a lantern are a man more apt to be fully tended supply of dark whiskers they had who was loyal to ed bis way through the sand thither The" commandants I went and stood In the hung on a nail What sort of but the barber Estebany’s truthful than — timid had story dethe Ins and suspected Mackenzie’s his haberdashery door and looked at me and I said: creating a discord they Mackenzie’s prepared place is this town?” eye for the "Mr Wahrfleld votion to the outs hissed: “Aha! "and against a background of tropical blues I you are my prisoner hope for the lady’s sake you will take “This town? Oh a banana town as change wrote in his’ secret memorandum book: and greens the matter You The man know why I stumbled into the his sensibly — run light huts ’dobes five or Grass “Junlo el 10 Vino un telegrafo por Mackenzie smoked cigars and walkthey want you” from weariness and eyes heavy six houses — population sleep Senor M" ed the shingle under the cocoanut "Who are you?" says the old gent Caribs and blackamoors No but flashing with alarm The dispatch was from Bob His nets were well spread palms ‘‘Flynn” says I "of the Columbia “What does this mean?” he demand- tective sidewalks no amusements Rather unBureau Now sir let me give a “Gringo" In the capital city The roads were so few the opportunied In excellent you some good advice You go back and with keen a English moral That’s sketch an of an Ice manufacturer a sworn revoluembarkation so limited for the ties take your medicine like a man and look They’ll at American— the course” perturbed tionist and “good people" The wily two or three probable points of exit so a seven only give you a five or maybe Bob seemed to have circumvented sucspot and they’ll send you to one of the well guarded that it would be strange “Are there any Inducements say In "robbery" reform pens where you will only have of sending “Very nearly" answered Mackenzie indeed If there should slip through the a business or social way for one to cessfully the impossibility to keep books or feed the warden’s chick“but I guess I’m In time to prevent it so much of the country's diga confidential message in either Spanmeshes reside l3re?” ens Is a country for a young lady This cash goes back to the people to like Miss this The result was the nity romance and collateral ish or English “One” said Mackenzie Wahrfleld to live In? You give smiling whom it belongs” He thrust both and go back and I’ll put In ip the cash following literary gem: Night came and satisfied with the “There are no afternoon teas— and ana for word good you I’ll give you five hands Into the pockets of his loose minutes “His nibs skedaddled yesterday per jack precautions taken the American strollother— there’s no extradition treaty" to decide" I pulled out my watch rabbit line with all the spondulicks coat linen The hand president’s ed back through the town Oil lamps "He told me" went on the lady and walled In the pot and ths bunch of calico he’s went quickly behind him a sickly yellow burned Of a BUdden the girl gave a to as random at if herself a and with speaking a on Out She’s easy spoons peach tiny scream and grabbed the old boy around “Don’t All the streets were draw" called Mackenzie the neck crowd In good shape but the boodle Is corners byslight frown “that there were towns Oh she says kind of We must have the streets there were no thoroughfares on this const of importance six figures short that there sharply “I’ve got you covered from contraltofather“canfather!" this be true Have you You collar Mackenzie turned swag the main guy scooped my pocket” was a pleasing social order — especially taken along one of them money that la not ours? Speak It He’s headed for the briny You know The lady advanced and crouched swiftly in the shadow an American and laid one father!" It made you shiver to hear the what to do’’ colony of cultured resiThis remarkable hand on the shoulder of the hesitating trempo stop she put on her voice screed conveyed for a tall muffled man passed carrydents” She got hm to one side and talked to Mackenzie A woman at his the information that the ing a heavy valise “There Is an American colony" he defaulter She pointed with the other together a minute and then they he put on to table wonelbow seemed to hurry him on1 They continued “Tell me the In some at president had decamped for the coast her the truth” she some' gold eyeglasses and walked up and gazing handed me the grip said with the public money accompanied went rapidly Mackenzie following un“Whose money Is that?” der “Two defaulting bank presidents “Mr he Detective" a Bays The man did not answer one short county treasurer four He gave by the opera singer Julia Gordon his til they reached and entered a posada tle broken “I conclude to talking return with a deep long drawn sigh leaned and infatuation for whom was the gossip known as the "Hotel de Iob Estranje-rosand a widow — arsenic I ’beI have finished to discover you that life kissed her on the forehead a dreary hostelry greatly in dison this I myself of the republic lieve was the suspicion and stepdesolate and displeased coast would be worse than to die Mackenzie itself I will his message use by both strangers and friends ped back into the other room and pocketed complete the colony but as yet have go back and hurl myself upon the mercy At that moment there came along not and went to talk It over with his friend distinguished myself by any closed the door of the Loan— Trust Company Have you a barber an enemy to felony" one Esteban Dr Zavalla a naand Mackenzie foresaw his purpose and brought ft sheep?” a jovial plotter 'Do not lose hope” returned the Jumped for the door but the report "Sheep!’ tive politician of much Ingenuity Macexisting government Bays I "I haven't a single—” "Ship’ cut in the young lady "Don’t He lady dryly “I see nothing In your acof the pistol echoed as his hand touchkenzie had taken up political intrigue against stagnation in any form Is of German get funny Father birth imtions tonight to guarantee jour future ed the knob as a matter of business His support greeted Mackenzie with flatulent A heavy fall followed and doesn't How speak perfect English did you come?” Some mistake and some one struggled past him into so far useful to the portance was considered has been obscurity The girl was all broke up “What you think Don Frank! I have I do not know Just where But the suicide’s room made She had a party that If the wheel revolutionary face handkerchief her to and — kept saying A desolation revolved he stood to win a tonight shaved la barba what you call him you shall not disturb The jourthought Mackenzie little bit: "Oh father father!’ every ney has fatigued him so that he Is greater than the loss of cavalier and concession of 30000 manzanas of the the ’weeskers’ of El Senor President® She walked up to me and laid her himself! Consider! hand on the clothes that had He sent for me fallen asleep I think In his clothes finest timber land along the coast gold must have been In the heart of I emelt a million viopained her at first You talk of stolen money! to come In a pobre casa be awaited the enchantress to have forced from Remain By reference to the “jack rabbit lets Bhe was a lula I told her I came where you are and I will bring you her in that moment —a verree leetle house I think he deline" In Bob’s message it was underthe cry of one In a private yacht — — to not cars be valise known “Mr but that sire jo! you covet so” She turned turning to the only stood that the head of the government she say “Oh take us Flynn away from this horrid country look at once the swag and Julia had taken the can you shave a man and not see his upon him a peculiar searching earthly consoler— to have Can you! Will youl 8ay you will’ This gold piece he gave me face? that ended In a quizzical smile made her call out from that dishonor route to the coast Indeed TU try” I said concealing the fact that M®icy Maze 4 It Jti I wae dying to get them on salt water before they could ohange their mind Well we three made a aneak around the edge of town so as not to be seen We go tangled In vines and ferns and the banana bushea and tropical scenery a ' good deal The monkey auburba was as wild as places In Central Park We came out on the beach a good half mile below A brown chap was lying asleep under a cocoanut tree with a musket be- aide him Mr Wahrfleld takes up the gun and pitches It In the sea “The coast Is guarded” he says "Rebellion and plots ripen like fruit” Ha pointed to the j sleeping man who never atlrred "Thus" he says "they perform trusts Chlldreni” I saw our boat coming and I struck a match and lit a piece of newspaper to show them where we were In thirty minutes we were on board the yacht The first thing Mr Wahrfield and hie daughter and I took the grip Into the ' owner’s cabin opened It up and took an There was two hundred and Inventory sixty thousand dollars In H S treasury certificates and bonds besides a lot of diamond Jewelry and a couple of hundred Havana cigars I gave the old man the cigars and a receipt for ths rest ot the lot as agent for the company and locked the stuff up In my private quarters I never had a pleasanter trip than that one After we got to sea the young lady turned out to be the Jolllest ever The very first time we sat down to dinner and the steward filled her glass with champagne— that director’s yacht was a she regular floating winks at me and savs: "What’s the use to borrow trouble Mr Fly Cop? Here’ hoping you may live to eat the hen that scratches on your grave” There was a piano on board and she sat down to It and Bung better than you give up two cases to hear plenty times She knew about nine operas clear through She was sure enough bon ton and swell She wasn't one of the “among others present” kind she belonged on the special mention list! The old man too perked up amazingly on the way lie passed the cigars and says to me once quite chipper out of a cloud of smoke: "Mr Flynn somehow I think the Loan—1 Trust Company will not give me the much trouble Guard well the grip— valise of the money Mr Flynn for that It must be returned to them that It belongs when we finish to arrive” When we larded In New York I 'phoned to the chief to meet us tn that directors office We got In a cab and went there I carried the grip and we walked In and I was pleased to see that the chief had got together that same old crowd of moneybugs with pink faces and whits vests to see us march In set the grip on the table “There’s the money’ I said “And your prisoner?” said the chief I pointed to Mr Wahrfleld and he forward and savs: “The honor of a word with you sir to explain" He and the chief went Into another room and stayed ten minutes? When they came back the chief looked as black as a ton of coal “Did this gentleman he says to me “have this valise In hla possession when you first saw him?” “He did” said I The chief took up the grip and handed It to the prisoner with a bow and says to the director crowd: "Do any of you recognize this gentleman?’ They all shook their pink faces "Allow me to present" ha goes on "Senor Mlraflores president of the ReThe senor has genpublic of Anchurla erously consented to overlook this outrageous blunder on condition that we undertake to secure him against the annoyance of publla comment It Is a concession on his part to overlook an Insult for which he might claim International re- dress 4 think we can gratefully promIn ise him secrecy the matter” They gave him a pink nod “Flynn” he Bays to me "As a private detective you’re wasted In a war where kidnapping governments la In the rules Come down to the you’d be Invaluable ’ office at eleven” tsv what that meant "mat's the monkeys" vas T “Welt why couldn’t he have said so?” Wouldn't It Jar you? - We are at length to the brought of one known as Dr Ancontemplation gel a familiar figure among the foreign residents of the French capital A brilliant blonde addressed as Mile Gordon often accompanies him In public In clgsrs Dr Angel is a connoisseur The brand he smokes costs two each He smokes them because francs ' he can afford to do so It only remains to designate the ultimate fate of the respectable sum of money in the valise which Frank Mackenzie dropped into the orange tree' To that end and to do Justice to Mr Mackenzie’s taste and honesty the following extract from an article In a New York newspaper may opportunely be appended: “It will be remembered that some months ago J Churchill Wahrfield president of the Republic Land and Trust Company of this city absconded with nearly a quarter of a million dollars of the company’s funds Also the sensational second act of tills unusual financial drama In which the entire missing sum was returned to the company two weeks after Wahrfleld’s disappearance through the medium of New Orleans bankers “Yesterday the denouement occurred In the shape of a draft for which was received by the treasurer of the company the amount being exactly Identical with the published figures of the remainder of Wahrfleld’s shortage as was determined by the expert accountant who examined the books “Of Wahrfleld and hie who left with him and whe daughter was a sokty belle nothing has since been heard Chief Bayley of the Columbia Detective Bureau stated today in an Interview that he sent at the time of the flight an experienced detective on a promising clue to the Central American coast but that hs returned without a trace of the fugitives Of course the only tenable theory Is that Wahrfleld repented of hlg deed soon after his departure and returned tha stolen funds shrewdness and financial ability must have caused Fortune to knock a second time at his door to have enabled him to so promptly liquidate tho remainder of the deficit ’Thus closes a most unique Incident in the business world and as Wahrfield will ' hardly make himself and his whereabouts known to the public again the mystery of the restitution will doubtless never ba explained” n1TAtrthe He Had Timed It Hank Johnson (from Kansas)— sir that cyclone was blowin at the rate of four miles an hour I know because I timed It with my watch Jake Bilklns (from Connecticut)— Timed it with your watch? How could you do that? Iiank Johnson— By lookin' at my watch an’ at passln’ of objects course at one o’clock I seen Jim Duncan’s chicken house shoot past the rock whereI was lyin’ behind an’ one minute after one of Bill Hadler’s cow sheds passed the same spot an any one In my county will tell you that them hulldln’s when standin waa Just four miles apart Yes |