New-York tribune., 1903-01-11

"On your return to Bilbao, my son." he said
you shall the bones of many an Enghsn-
man, if Heaven SO wills it to help US.
"Amenr' said I; IF Heaven SO wills it
You will return no champion of Olazazagua,
Hernani; but that is what you SHAH see, my
son." he said on, with an oily wink.
For two pins could have got at his throat
with him for hoaxing the general But wiser
instinct controlled me, and L was soon dong my
best to revive the skill as a peleta PLAYER WhIcn
had done me good a turn three or 1onr years
earlier Maybe a hundred folks watched me-
and the most of them laughed They did not
reckon l should beat their Gorostegui if played
no better than that. But kept my underhano
yolleys UP my sleeve, as il were; the more res
olutely. too when l heard my friend the prlese
gloating for all hearers about the bets ne hao
certainly won He had backed Gorostegul heaV-
lily. and he offered odds Of three to one no"
against me.
and people quite as a matter of course But
Father DiniS was an out-and-outer
The time passed merrily now until the games.
Had the Olazazagua wine been stronger than II
was faith it's not sure I l could quite SO
handsomely have kept up my part of the sun.
struck Chiuuito from Bilbao They petted me
finely, did the men who had put their money on
me from sheer respect for the Chidultos reputa-
ton But kept my head clear for now h9M Ts,a
that at any instant this confounded Bilbao man
might not turn up and make things blue for
me? Moreover, had to get back TO the caihp
without loss of time.
AS to the ways and means of this, my brains
were bothering about them even when that tour
narnent in the peiota court had begun I didn't
a rare banquet to wind up the evening ana ia
the morning those Basque warriors were 10
march,
But let me move now at the trot. Somehow
the spirit of the game caught me when mao
lost forty points to GorosteguTs tWenty-eight; l
recovered my knack at the cruzado deiFerleS'
and in a quarter of an hour the tables were
being turned. How the fellows did roar tner
applause! And how uncomfortably Father Dlnls
nursed his blue chin and stared!
Another quarter of an hour and my SIDE hao
run out winner on the fifty points, leaving the
Nla 1taa and
staggered at thirty-five. 1 had done more IN
the excitement of my joy (plus little whoie-
some revenge) / had wound up the victory Dy
singing and artful side stroke which sent the
ball. hard as a cannon shot, at the head OF
Father Dinis himself. His reverence was lying
with brain concussion. and was wearing AhS
laurels with what grace L could.
It was at about II o'clock, under half moon,
that slipped out Of the village. Walklng al,
night sighted the when the sun had been
UP a dangerous number OF hours; ana theil, d
weary but proud man, I sought out the genera
and made nv report. l told him besides What
had made up my mind to tell him ABOUT tnat
unlucky Frenchman's idea Of the aqueoucI
And, faith! that's maybe where mace tne lliot -
take: for, though it led to the famous mine OF
the 25th and the simultaneous attack over the
river we ddn't make much profit out or either
the one or the other. Lieutenant Reld got more
credit for his crawl up the pipe of the aquedUct
than CAPTAIN Tollington Though it's that say
i, who suggested it all Is ever tne wg sOd sOd
this one bad egg little spoiled my credit for
the OlazaZagua business.
Mentioned IN the dispatches! IL oe SUI -,
was. and the general himself said We'll done
to me But this was all the direct reward got
for those three days work; this, and gratlneo
conscience, which Is Soou IulAS ioi o4iS oAe
to have, or boy.
The news reached US later that Father Dinls
defeat Of the Basques when these came down
their hills like ants into the ambush Whlchs
thanks to me, prepared for thern- wen,
he deserved to die for his crookedness, and thal
all about it-(Chambers's Journal.