The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-04-16

never been driven, sir-not single
step; you can kill them, but you can't
drive them. No, Stree"
So it happened one soft, languor-
Gus day that Charles Lawrence disem-
barked at Havana, presumably upon
mission to secure some transporta-
ton franchises for an American syndi-
cate, and hunted up his brother, the
captain.
He was received with open arms,
and the brothers reveled for several
days in their reunion. The elder
never limited at his mission, and when
he talked shop" at all, dwelt enthusi-
astically upon his franchise quest. II
| the younger suspected the Interior de-
| sign of his visitor he did not betray it.
1t was several days after Charles APP
| peared on the scene before he found
any sort of opening for the further
ance of his real mission. Singularly
enough Will did not mention his love
affair or give him any sort of open
ing, and he hesitated to breach the
| subject himself. One soft evening,
however, after dinner the captain re-
marked:
Charley, I want you to make a call
with me this evening. 1 will show
you the two most beautiful women in
Cuba-in the world"
Acquiescing readily, the two strolled
through the better part of the town
and brought up at a rather preten-
tiously built Cuban home of the older
type-somewhat run down, but bear
ing marks of responsibility, even arts.
tocracy.
This is the home of Don Carlos An
tonic Silvera," remarked Will. "He is
of a very old and very proud Spanish
family-of the purest blood, mind
you, and for heavens sake don't for.
get that point, as he is extremely proud
of it. He was formerly away up in
G financially, but the revolution and
other misfortunes have largely
stripped him of his estates. But he
keeps up appearances as best he can
and is the finest kind of a type of an
old aristocrat. And his two daughters
are the very flower of the Antilles
especially Julia"
With this preface Charles was ush-
cred into the house and presently was
formally presented to the Senorita
Julia. He was compelled to admit
to himself that his brother certainly
had an eye for beauty for seldom in
all his travels had he laid eyes on so
striking a girl, so perfect a type of
the Latin beauty. Still more was he
Nd ol.o IL, l. Il,
breeding and culture of the fair
hostess and her chaperone, the old
aunt who guarded her with lynx-eyed
fidelity. He was presented also to the
master of the house, and was fairly
overawed by the dignity and grace of
his manner. AS he was regarding the
senorita with profound admiration
and rejecting upon the mammoth pro-
portions his task had suddenly as
sumed, curtain was swept aside and
a vision appeared before him which
drove all other thoughts from his
mind and all other objects from his
sight. 1t was another woman very like
the Senorita Julia, but very different
more ripened and matured in charm
eyed, olive-skinned, voluptuously
formed creatures only to be found
among the women descended from the
pure Castillian blood, and also with
face so alive with intelligence and
head so perfectly formed that he al
most forgot the perfection of physical
beauty in admiration of the suggestion
of intellectually.
"Ah, this is the Senorita Rosa"
exclaimed the captain. "Senorita, my
brother, Charles"
The evening sped for both brothers,
the younger being engrossed with his
fiancee and the elder finding keen in
terest in the strange, ardent nature
of the sister-absolutely a new type
to him.
On the way to the captains lodgings
Charles became conscious of a feeling
of distinct annoyance in the thought
that he was not pursuing his mission
with the ngle-heartedness that he
should, and that he had enjoyed the
evening altogether too much and did
not regard the Silvera family with
that aversion which was expected of
him. Also he fancied that he detected
note of suppressed glee in the cap
tain's demeanor.
There followed many visits to the
Silvera home, and Charles put in many
sleepless nights in trying to figure out
plan to break up the affair. but with
growing certainty that he was MAX
ing poor job of it and that he cared
much more to bask in the sunlight of
the Senorita Rosa's lustrous ewes than
for expostulating with Will.
Of course the result was foreor-
dained, and that was why old Gen.
Lawrence one eventful day received
letter which all but caused the break
ing of a blood-vessel and required all
the skill of the family doctor to keep
him from fading from earth in an
apoplectic stroke. It was none other
than the announcement that his two
sons had been married, respectively,
to the sSenorita Rosa and the Senorita
Julia and begging that he defer iudg-
ment until they arrived in America
with their wives, when they were sure