Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-03

stood before them with downcast eyes.
her face close hooded, contenting herself
with the delivery of an unsealed note
from .Corbyn to the effect that bona
Beatriz would be the better of her COM
paniOns company.
Won Rudolf read 1t. and directed her
to the pavilion. He was we'll plea sed to
be relieved of a responsibility, for Beatriz
intruded on her privacy. His eyes fol-
lowed the cloaked figure it disap-
peared within the porch.
"D'you know Vienna?" he asked Chal-
Toner. inconseauently, and the CORE
spOndent nodded
II used to know a girl like that there"
said the general. and sighed. 1t was so
bitter to recall the past. which could not
be undOne.
They separated shortly afterward. and
Challoner. undressing in the tent assigned
him. whistled shrilly what he fondly
| thought was 1.-The Last Rose of Sum-
| mer.' till an adjacent sentry threatened
| to shoot him If he didn't stop.
| He stopped. and from the white pa
viliOn came a faint echo of the tune,
which the sentry did not overhear..
The correspondent chuckled gleefully.
| Right again. he said to himself. Il
| thought 1 couldn't have been mistaken
| But he's bold young scoundrel to thrust
himself into the Tigers claws like this.
III have to see whether / can't lend him
| a hand before he finds himself ripped
Ybarra appears. ] wonder whether he
| twigged me while he was standing there
looking down his nose like a schoolgirl:
but he acted his part pretty we'll. ali the
same. If l hadn't caught sight of his
feet I'd have had no suspicious"
| He blew out the light. having made
such dispositions as he considered neces-
| sary, and. after peering out, crept forth
from under the skirt of the tent at the
back The sentry was walking his beat
| well removed from all chance of caves
dropping on the occupants of the pavilion
Challoner waited till his back was turned
intervening space. bringing up in the lee
of the larger shelter. Under its soft white
wall he thrust hand whose fingers held
a calling card. That was snatched from
between them, and. pulling, loose peg
or two out of the ground. he slipped
through under the canvas. coming I'D on
his knees inside to discover Meggs in his
disguise, regarding him with genial
grin.
! They exchanged hearty hand clasp
before ChallOner bet loose on that reckless
youth the Walls Of his righteous wrath.
which did not. however, seem to discon-
cert his friend.
Somebody had to do sonnet hing you
see." said Meggs. blandiy, in self-de-
Tense, land this seemed the easiest way
to get here
But how about getting back?" OBJ
jected the other.
Well cross that bridge when we come
to it," Megss replied. Whats the news
| outside? How do things stand now?'
Challoner told him all that he knew
and they had their plan half formed be-
fore Won RudOlfs coming forced him to
take cover under the tiger-skin rug on
the floor at the back of the rocking chair
and made that plan so much more simple
/ The general had grown restless, his
brain was busy, with a train Of thoughts
| which hurt, and he had at last resolved
to seek speech with the girl who was so
like one he had used to know in Vienna
He could not believe that 1t was she, and
yet the resemblance had struck him re-
peatedly since he had seen Fiji first at La
Boca. He would ask her outright and
| so salve his unrest.
He was told to return. and did SO. only
| to fall unsuspectingly into the trap the
| two men had laid for him in the interval
And all would have gone we'll with their
scheme but for; Ybarras Over-early ar
rival from Alta Cruz.
His excellency had enjoyed very
| stormy interview with the vice president
and was all eagerness to share the city
news with the young soldier. And he had
| brought a priest with him, what he had
heard having proven the urgent need Of
haste in matters both matrimonial and
financial.
he discovered that which had befailen
He raved and ragged. gnashing his teeth
with that insane abandon which had won