Bisbee daily review., 1913-09-04

garding Holton with open-mouthed as- tonishment.
 Its this way" smiled Holton, ''the Chats been ordered to take young Cuban woman over to Cuba, and-snd want her to be comfortable"
 The faces of the two men radiated curiosity, but Holton said nothing fur ther to enlighten them.
 Promptly at seven o'clock that evening a closed carriage drove rap idly down the long wharf and stopped abreast the gangway leading to the Chat. The door was flung open. and del Key and an American. their arms linked through those of Miss La Tossa. descended and without a word walked down the plank and aboard the tor pede boat
 Holton met them by the coming tower and lifted his cap.
 he said. smiling in greeting.
 She flashed a vague look at him. and lowered her eyes without speaking
 Del Key bowed in a courtly man ner to the girl q trust you will have a pleasant voyage, and l beg to apol. ogize for my seeming rudeness."
 The captive deigned no reply, and turned her back as the two men re traced their steps up the gangway
 A few minutes later the diminutiye warship was churning her way out through the bay.
 Holton turned to the girl, who stood disconsolately, viewing the receding shore.
 'T am sorry, Mss La Tossa, but you will recognize, of course, that I am doing nothing but obeying orders. which are to see that you are very comfortable and agreeably enter. tained until you reach, Cuba"
 She evidently had determined not to talk to her captor. but changed her mind with womanlike suddenness.
 T shall thank you If am com. more if you give over any idea of entertaining me. You may be sure that the less I see of you the better shall be pleased"
 'If you will follow me. Miss La Tossa." he said, with sudden stiffen. ing of manner. ~In show yoa your cabin"
 The dark came uxstns across the sea It was a wonderful night, 6 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. al the bottom of which she seemed to nestle moment before her screw kicked her up another quiyerfng hill
 Some time later the lights of craft which had been following astern of the Chat began to creep closer and closer aboard, and dark clouds of smoke, bli- lowing from three squat tunnels, blot. ted out the northeastern horizon.
 Holton saw the weasel, too, and eas- fly 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 Bainbridge wished to speak to the Chat.
 In a few minutes the Bainbridge swished up and the sharp. voice of Lieutenant- Commander Jameson sound. ed from the bridge. E, "On board the Gnat!- E,
 Aye. Aye!" yelled Horton. There followed a silence which last. ed until the destroyer s1d 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:
 T have orders to take @ Miss La i Tossa from the Gnst and land her ! at-well, never mind where" "s 7 | y"Very good, sir. Any orders for mel" -'s
 Yes, here they are" Jameson took an envelope from his overcoat- pocket and handed 1t to Holton. Nov. then. I'll take the girl" 1 But the girl, in fact, did not wait to be taken. She stepped fsrward most gracefully, and addressing lame. son. sad:
 'I am ready; I am quite happy at my change of prisons and my shift of | jailers" "Ha, hal" laughed the prosaJc Jameson, nudging Holton in the ribs, and offering his arm to the girl who walked up a small ladder to the deck of the destroyer without so much as a glance at Holton-
 With 8 blast of her siren the Bein- bridge shot on her way to Cuba. whiIe the Chat made long sweep and turned upon her course 8.
 While this mRneuyer was in prog. ress Holton. still flushing with vexs- ton, ripped opep the envelope and read the latest phase of what he had come to regard ss a game of battle dors and shuttiecock.
 Shorn of technical verbiage. the or ders which were signed by the new assistant secretary. Allen, instructed Holton to lose himself and the Chat among the small isolated keys of ths coast until such time as the transports were RathaFad ar PorT Tann. uhan