Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-12-19

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| will recognize, of course, that | am
doing nothing but obeying orders,
| which are to see that you are very
comfortable and agreeably enter
tanned until you reach Cuba
She evidently had determined not
| to talk to her captor, but changed her
mind with womanlike suddenness.
Il shall thank you If | am COM
Portable. but l shall thank you still
more if you give over any idea OF
entertaining me. You may be sure
| that the less l see Of you the better
| shall be pleased"
IF you will follow me. Miss La
Tossa," he said, with sudden stiffen-
ing of manner, "I'll show you your
cabin
The dark came rolling across the
sea. 1t was wonderful night. night
spangled with consultations and undu-
| lating black velvet waters, which
picked up the little torpedo craft, hold
ing her high and then sending her
gliding silently down long inclines. at
the bottom of which she seemed to
kicked her up another quivering hill.
Some time later the lights of craft
which had been following astern of the
| Gnat began to creep closer and closer
aboard, and dark clouds of smoke, bill
lowing from three squat tunnels, blot
fad NJt fhQ nOpt n 10 or horizon
Holton saw the vessel, too, and cas-
| lily recognized her as a torpedo boat
destroyer. His only doubt was as to
| her nationality.
This was speedily settled, for sud-
denly Ardois lights began to blink
from the bridge, interpreting which
| Holton learned that the destroyer
cambridge wished to speak to the
Gnat.
In few minutes the cambridge
swished up and the sharp voice of
Lieutenant Commander Jameson sound
ed from the bridge
ION board the Gnat!"
AYE, Aye!" yelled Horton
There followed a silence which last
ed until the destroyer slid her high
sharp bow and conical forward deck
alongside the little torpedo boat
Jameson jumped aboard and after re-
turning Holton's salute he said for
| mally:
Il have orders to take Miss La
Tossa from the Gnat and land her
at-well, never mind where"
Very good, sir. Any orders for
me?"
Yes, here they are" Jameson took
| an envelope from his overcoat pocket
and handed ID to Holton. Now, then
I'll take the girl"
But the girl, in fact, did not wait
to be taken. She stepped forward
most gracefully, and addressing Jane
son, said:
Il am ready; l am quite happy at
my change of prisons and my shift of
| jailers.'
"Ha, hal" laughed the prosaic
jameson, nudging Holton in the ribs,
| and offering his arm to the girl who
walked up small ladder to the deck
| of the destroyer without SO much as
| a glance at Holton.
With blast of her siren the Balm
| bridge shot on her way to Cuba, while
the Gnat made a long sweep and
turned upon her course.
While this maneuver was in prog
ress Holton, still flushing with vexa-
ton, ripped open the envelope and
read the latest phase of what he had
come to regard as a game of battle
| dore and shuttlecock
| Shorn of technical verbiage, the or
| ders which were signed by the new
assistant secretary, Allen, instructed
Holton to lose himself and the Gnat
among the small isolated keys of the
coast until such time as the transports
were gathered at Port Tampa, when.
he was then to guard them from night
attacks which might come sneaking
in under cover OF the darkness from
seward