The Washington times., 1911-12-10

accompany him to the gov
ernor's palace. There at a council, In
which Sparhawk, Beaufort, Varley,
l.ansram, McRae, and Hallam were
participants, 1t was decided to postpone
the examination of the prisoners until
the arrival of President Munez. 1t was
arranged that Sparhawk should, in the
meantime, place in Servo's hands all
the evidence he had secured concerning
the revolutionary plot.
The conference was brief. When 1t
was ended, Sparhawk. accompanied by
Beaufort and Varley, hurried to the
house which Barbara and Bob Nc
Cam had preceded him.
Iii Sparhawk's room Bob McCann,
standing meditatively near one of the
smoking one of the blackened corncob
pipes which his employer had brought
with him from the States. The large
headed youth colored guiltily, looked at
put a bold face on the matter, began to
pun smoke like a miniature volcano.
Sparhawk. smiling. for the first time
fnat morning. was about to speak when
Well. he said. almost gloomily, II
see you found my suggestion was worth
something, after ALL"
Your suggestion" Sparhawk asked
"oh! / don't care who gets the
credit for it. SO long as 1t worked out
all right the precocious youth went
on benevolently. las soon as l found
out you had read the book before, /
did, l thought maybe you were on,
but / was afraid that as long as you
had married the Indian princess so
In for the conquest part"
For minute Sparhawk looked
Ia2ed then light broke, and, despite the
fact that for the last half hour his
spirits had been more depressed than
ever, IN his life before. he began to
THAT automobile-the skate-was the
Coshans." Bob continued. When they
saw It running over the .roadbed with
blazing IKE eyes they thought it was
star-Just as their ancestors I thought m o Of
fne men In armor on the backs of horses.
Then when they saw the heliographs
.S WSinkng IN the mountains. and knew
me fellows working them were yours,
they thought they were priests
The Coshans think the sun is the
great eano It, SO, SO they Worship it, and when
was the real thing. They never seen no
red hair before They thought the sun
was In 1t somewhere, and they sent a
population to old Hemingway asking II
thing" says sure
Hemingway and his heliograph had
EN- guessing for fair-even Gandalap
didn't know where he was at. Gandalap
was about the worst brass-kruckles In
dian that ever happened when he was
Eisht: and sort Of Believed iSte' in the sun all
That's why, he didn't kill Mrs. Spar
hawk when she was under my protec-
ad had tbs sax gYibar at BY end Gf the game we
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Robert Donovan Mccain puffed his
pipe thoughtfully, then he added:
Your end was pretty good. too. The
automobile and the heliograph were al
didn't take my advice about the bal.
looms and elephants and camels Gee
you ought to have seen 'em stare wher
"Camels!" Beaufort exclaimed. "Yor
got the six sent. then?'
"You sent six camels?" said Spar,
hawk wonderingly. why. /"
telegram to me-" Beaufort explained
Sparhawk shook his head. 1T asked
for none" he said. and the puzzled ex
preston deepened on his face.
.! was responsible for the request,
said Varley sheepishly. "The telegram
was sent to me for transmission to you
Mr.. Beaufort. I added the sentence con.
corning the camels.
Between San Felicidad and the mair
range of the Andes lies a desert. hat
plan to establish two or three relay
stations for messenger service be
tween the city and the mountains. The
excellent results of the heliograph serv.
Ice made this unnecessary"
I'm Heavens name, what is the boy
driving at?' asked Beaufort. who. de
spite his amusement. was beginning Il
manifest signs of impatience. Surely
he can't be serious when he tells u.
that"
"Bob is always serious" Sparhawl
replied. ''He has seen fit to trace al
analogy between my career down here
and that of Pizarro, up in Peru, three
centuries or so ago: But let's get a
some Of the more vital facts, Bob. Tel
us how II was that Mrs. Sparhawk wa.
abducted from here and how you hap
pened to be with her?"
Bob's story was soon told. On the
night OF the abduction Pedro, one of tn,
servants that had been assigned Il
Sparhawk. acting on orders from Bra
banti, had chloroformed the American
engineer while he vas sleeping Then
breaking into Barbara's room. Brabant
and three Companions had slain Chi
uuita and, after overpowcring Barbara
kAld chlorOfOrm to her noStrila uufi