Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31

ted that every dinner not a
dinosaur served whole, and he liked
lettuce salad because of the leaves appropriated
banknoes in color Above all else, he careful about
his money pernickety of his change nicky as to the
pennies The revolution business appealed to him not
because it had an element of but entirely be-
cause it offered large and legitimate profits.
George Groom introduced to the Count and to the
plot When YOU spend lot of time loaing in the cafes
and hotel Hobbies of Washington, you into strange
men-great ones who doing big things on a large
SCALE little who trying to put over sly games for
small gain; successes with their on the lips OF
every man; and failures who unable to realize that
thev are down and before they started They
come to the national Capital from all the States and
from the ends of the earth, with bras some with
manas and others with nothing but worthless converse
ton They are the pillars and the takers OF BUSINESS the
diplomats and the pirates OF international AFFAIRS the
actors and the clowns in the worlds circus.
When met Groom, | sized him up as one OF the real
things-a hard, smooth proposition it IS true, but
man who had delivered and would deliver the goods he
promised. He had spent his life among the Latin
Americans had engineered two uprsngs IN Cuba before
the first American intervention and twice, once IN Hon.
duras and once Guatemala had been under sentence
of death. He had steegray eyes as hard as marbles
the pupils no larger than good sized pnpont They
were ewes intended merely for the physical function OF
sight so constructed that they could mirror forth
an emotion. His unwrinkled REDEEMED face looked
polished and in a way as hard and blank as his eyes,
but he broadly and strongly built and he carried
himself in such way that you noticed his bald head
when he passed you in a dining ROOM
A FTER he had sought me out continually for three
\ weeks he made the proposal that resulted IN my
being introduced to the Count and the Spanard. When
he did speak he was thoroughly frank 1t was not a
matter that could be dealt with in vagueness or half
tones He needed what he considered to be my great
influence at the State Department. influence that
was more the subject of gossip than reality. Washing
ton full of credited with pull that they do not
possess
"Caranezza," he told me, gancing with involuntary
caution toward the neghboring tables in the cafe, us
one of the richest and least exploited of the Central
American Republics. There's going to be revolution
down there, and I'm in it, l and several others.
There's no reason why you shouldn't join u.s.
When he lit his cigar with elaborate care, waiting for
me to speak, kept silent. preferred to hear more.
dts partly question of money!, he took up the in
vtaon; "but entirely that. You can help us with
the State Department. the recognition of the Gov
eminent when once it has been estabshed-and all
that"
"And what do l get?' l needed assurance.
"a lot of money! as all of will 1t is money put up
here and money brought back here multiplication
table. All want you to do IS to come up with thou
sand dollars evidence of good faith The Count IS
the real banker He has planked down thirty thousand
and I've put in all AS matter of fact this revo-
luton like all others down there, must be financed and
it won't be the first that got its money out of the United
States"
at sounds good admitted
at is good he insisted leaning farther the
table toward ave finance the rebels into the Gov
eminent, and in return they give the mining and
plantation concessions want" He paused, the pupils
of his eyes growing smaller than usual. "What
about it," he asked both persuasive and 1ngraatlng
"That's just what l want to know" replied half
laughngy. had heard of these things being pulled off