The Huttig news., 1913-11-08


 ihEt9n hotel he detects q waiter in the aet Of robbing q beautiful young lady, who thanks him for his service and gives her rune as Miss La Tossa. d Cuban patriot Later he meets her at a ball. A secret elNice man warns Holton that the girl IS spy.
 CHAPTER TIT-Senor I a Tossa chides ais daughter for her failure to secure i'm .aas:al .5or.antt I information from Hclton She ordered to follow her.
 CHAPTER IV-They meet on the Tam pa train. Miss La Tossa tells Holton she is q Cuban spy and expresses doubt re- gardins the sincerity of the United States. ioiton js ordered to remain in Tampa to guard the troop transports.
 iand Mss La Tossa who is considered | dangerous spy, on Cuban soil. At sea De IS oIertasen by another warship, which takes Miss La Tossa aboard and 1iolton is ordered to return to Tampa.
 CHAPTER Vile saves the transports rom destruction at the hands of dyna- Iaiters and reports to Admiral Sampson -or further duty.
 -CI apTER VTI-Halton Is sent to Cen efai Garcia's command in the gIise Of 8 newspaper correspondent to investigate cuban plots against the American troops s=4i' Np l01Ii tiiG iltdtS LII lliS Si4falSi navy He detects trusted Cuban leader n the orll of fomenting trouble among The Cubans in the interests of the Span iards.
 CHAPTER vIII-Holton is seized by friends of the spy ana later is ordered executed He escapes and saves he American troops from falling into Span lsh ambush.
 CHAPTER Ix-He learns from General Garcia that the spy is Jose Cesnola. one of the most trusted leaders. H9lton takes part in the battle at San Juan.
 Despite the suggestions of the prox- finity of the Spaniards, Helton sat down and ate the most satisfactory meal of his life.
 Having eaten, he retired a little dis tance and lay back in the shadows. The sun warmed him. and the stiffness caused by the damp of the night left him. If, as he had feared, fever had been in his blood. it had gone now and this inspired him wonderfully. He was about to descend when the Hash of something below caught his eye almost beneath his feet He looked closely and caught the flash again, fol lowed by another flash, then by sev- eral. A flash in this jungle meant pol lshed metal of some sort, and metal of any sort here meant only one thing soldiers.
 He strained his eyes downward and then caught glimpses of a trail partial ly hidden from his view by bushes. On the side of the, trail nearest to the eastward the land fell sharply away into a wide valley, the opposite sides of which were bush and tree-covered hills just as on his side.
 And now as he looked, the situation dawned clear upon him. For he could zee men moving, falling back along the trail. and eventually debouching into bushes on either side.
 Holton's heart beat quickly He re- membered what the Spaniards had said of Americans marching from the direc- tion of Siboney, and he knew that right before his eyes the Spanards were arranging an ambush for them
 But what could he do? Almost any. moment detachment of Spanish sol dier might come upon him. His slight est movement would tend to attract llit dlitullDi Ol SOitIt Ot Iuetu.
 What was happening? Suddenly from the distance there came what sounded to Holton like the chatter of steel on steel. He at once recognized it as the sound scabbard makes when it strikes against a spur
 Hastily he looked down at the Span ish position, but not a sign of soldier anliIa bp Tho tru1 toL the surroundings were as quiet, as peaceful as the heart of a jungle. It was too quiet. Iiolton thought.
 Suddenly the situation dawned' clear his countrymen were walking into a i deadly trap! And he was powerless to help them.
 Then, as though voice had whis- pered in his ear he started up Was 1 he helpless? Ycs, if he was consider- 10 him personally were to be weighed he was perfectly helpless. But not otherwise. Providence could not have smiled more benignly upon the Ameri- cans than in placing him just where he was--provided he justified the providential processes with the nerve of hero.
 He rolled half on his side, loosened his revolver in it's bolster, and then drew it out. No more sounds come from the trail, and yet, somehow, there was the impression of movement down there, subconscious feeling of the ap- proaeh of men.
 Holton. his eyes strained ahead. his ears alert for the slightest sound started convuisiyely as campaign hat l appeared for an instant through rift l in the high grasses on the valley side of the trail
 1 Then. fiattening himself rigidly upon the ground, he pointed his pistol in i the direction of the Spanisrds beneath