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New Orleans There were two
hbers of the Camera club, Writ
worth and Louise Levan, who took
Many photographs together that life
e to appear to them to be con-
"a of myrads of beautiful scenes
M suddenly Ellsworth, who was Il
III broker, was offered fine opea-
TN Havana and went there to maize
f1&placc his home. From that time
ward all the pictures taken by Miss
X&&An seemed to her to be tingcd with
IS3&nch holy. Ellsworth. too, though lie
ED TO make photographs, found
he missed something in being de
wed of the girls society.
2Ta |ti1at time Captain General Wey-
iG6EWas vainly endeavoring to throttle
He would have found
%asier to stamp out a prairie fire
ertheless he succeeded in putting
Hy active revolutionary spirits out
Me way by incarccra ting them, as
called it. incomuncado, which
Giat literally without communica ton.
*8UyucI WoIus. III ODC was 70 huON
they were, that they We're charged
any offense or anything else about
1lsworth was heartily in sympathy
MN the Cubans, but wisely refrainel
0Sn taking any part in the revolution
had gone to Cuba to engage in the
SUEAr business, not to help the people
u gain their liberties. But rival
ouGar broker, seeing certain lines of
b0Siness that he had always controlled
passing into the young Americans
hande, secretly lodged information that
NJ was plotting with the revolution
letS. Ellsworth was spirited away.
When month passed and no letter
had been received from him in New
Orleans, great was the trepidation with
regard to him among his relatives. He
had only a mother and sisters, who,
instead of going to Cuba to find out
what had happened to him. contented
with worrying. 1t was then
that Louise Levan discovered how
much he was to her. and she decided
to 70 to Havana and make inquiries
But instead of announcing her real
purpose she gave out that she was go
Ing to take photographs of scenes per
tanning to the revolution.
When Miss Levan reached Havana
she commenced Investigations which
soon led to the knowledge that Els
worth was confined in a prison in the
Interior His recent business associate
told her that be would have taken
measures to bring the case before the
American consul. but the incomunicado
prevented their getting any proof Of
his identity.
Louise Levan found herself confront
ed BY problem. How could she Sc
cure this proof? Even if she could get
into the jail, see the prisoner and make
afidEvits 10 the fact of Ellsworth'S
identity the trickery of the Spaniard
would likely thwart her in the end.
Knowing her purpose. they could sim
ply remove the prisoner. After the
forming and rejecting of many plans
she hit upon one that she proceeded to
carry out
Going to the town where Ellsworth
was imprisoned. she took up her abode
in an inn with view to watching
for an Opportunity to get glimpse of
him. He might be allowed exercise in
the Jail yard; he might appear at
window; she might be admitted to the
prison. In the first two of these she
was disappointed, and all her applica-
ions to gain access to the interior
we're refused until prison inspector
anne to the inn who the next day was
o inspect the prison. Louise secured
~ intfoduction, fiattercd him and beg
3ed that she might send a written ac-
count censored 10y him, of the treat
(nentp the prisoners. The official,
|eeiuG an opportunity to influence
kmeraean sentiment. turning it from
fhe. cuxrent reports of barharous treat
The4MeXt day Louise went with the
bHclal.to inspect the prison. In time
they passed Ellsworths cell He was
fittingHon stool, pale, detected, elDa-
dated areading a fragment of news
paper, he did not look up. AS the
Sarty passed on Louise Jagged This
gave her the opportunity she desired
She carried what seemed to be
ady's bag for the purpose of holding
lahdkerchief. portcmonnaie and such
lrticles. Instead it was kodak she
lad had constructed in New Orleans.
u q tWinkling it lad snapped, and she
tad HIlswo rth's picture
prisoner sat unconscious that his
Id cAmera companion was looking at
i'm md %that she had the proof re-
uirs6 to set him at liberty The party
asse4 on, and that evening Louise
now4 the official report of the in
pect40n. which he approved at once.
All lew days later Il deputy United
sTe&4consGl With several persons to
-: ops worth was personally known
was not among them
bpeA&ed at the prison where he was
Snfned The deputy was armed with
4 order and a photograph. The order
Nadthat he was to see the prisoners,