The Huttig news., 1913-11-29
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 CHAPTER I-Lieutenant Rolton is de. iached from his command in the navy al the outset of the Spanish h-American war and assigned to important secret service duty.
 CHAPTER II-While dining at a Wash. ington hotel he detects a walter in the act Of robbing a beautiful young lady. Wh6 thanks him for his service and gives her name as Miss La Tossa. a Cuban patriot Later he meets her at ball. A secret .'ervice man warns Holton that the girl is spy.
 CHAPTER III-Senor Ia Tossa chtdes his daughter for her failure to secure i'm portant information from Holton She leaves for her home in Cuba Holton Is ordered to follow her.
 CHAPTER Iv-They meet on the Tam. pa train Miss La Tossa tells Holton she IS Cuban spy and expresses doubt re- garding the sincerity of the United States tfolton is ordered to remain in Tampa to guard the troop transports
 CHAI''=..i v-He receives orders to land Miss La Tossa. who is considered . dangerous spy, on Cuban soil. At sea which Mss Gy Tness noatd wafsp and
 
 Holton is ordered to return to Tampa.
 CHAPTER Vile saves the transports from destruction at the hands of dyna- miters and reports to Admiral Sampson for further duty.
 CHAPTER vII-Holton Is sent to Gen eral Garcias command In the guisa of newspaper correspondent to investigate Cuban plots against the American troops and to learn the plans of the Spanish aavy. He detects a trusted Cuban leader in the work of fomenting trouble among the Cubans in the interests of the Span iards.
 CHAPTER v11I-Hoton is seized by friends of the spy and later is ordered American troops from falling into Span tsh ambush
 CHAPTER IX-He learns from General Garcia that the spy is Jose Cesnola, one of the most trusted leaders. Heton takes part in the battle at San Juan.
 CHAPTER x-Dlsguised as Spanish soldier he enters Santiago. goes at night to the home of Miss La Tossa. where he plans by leading army and navy com manders. He learns that the Spanish on July 3. While attempting to leave the house he Is confronted by Miss La Tossa.
 CHAPTER xI-Holton eements his ing her that the Americahs intend to leave the island as soon as the Spanfards are driven out. Holton Is discovered by Cesnoia and is saved from death at the latter's hands by Miss La Tossa. Holton makes his escape.
 Holton marked the course of the great thirteen-inch shell, saw the great dark shape dart with lightning speed toward the Vizcaya, saw it hur- tie over the deck, ricochet on the wa ter and explode in the woods beyond. Then the earth shook with fearful noise.
 From all the American ships, and from those of the Spaniards, great guns vomited forth their messengers of death and destruction. The sky grew dark, and a yelowish pail set tied upon the sea.
 As Hoton stood tense, following the combat as in a trance, he heard tre- mendous explosion, and saw the Ma rie Theresa list sharply, and then saw her turn in toward the land, where she soon grounded. He could see men clinging to her decks
 It was clear that the American yes sells were overhauling the enemy's ships. although Holton had under stood that. as regards speed our yes sels were inferior. The discharge of guns was incessant. Almost directly beneath him he saw two Spanish de stroyers disengage themselves from the larger vessels and swing about, evidently with the intention of return ing to the harbor: but, like a hawk, long, rakish American craft, a con .erted yacht, bounced down upon them. letting fly with her machine guns and six-pounders as she came.
 The torpedo boats fought back with all the venom of maddened serpents, but gallant Wainwright and the Glou- cester were not to he denied, and. un- der the fury of his onset, the two de stroyers succumbed like craft of card board. disabled and sinking within the course of what seemed to Holton a very few minutes
 He could see two or three of the larger Spanish vessels aground now, flames seething from hatchways, the men of the crew leaping into the sea. Liefboats from the American vessels were among them, attending to the work of rescue as diligently as. but a few moments before, they had set themselves to the task of dealing death to their foes.
 Two or three faint cheers drifted shoreward, but for the most part there was silence. Boats manned, by Ameri- can sailors were about all the Spanish vessels, which, having left the har- Dor so proudly and so dehantly but a little while before, were now merely smoking, burning wreeks.
 The cannonading had ceased; the mist was blowing away; the sun once more was smiling on the waters. Far down, Holton could see the Oregon, Texas and Brooklyn speeding after two flying remnants of Cervera's squadron and he heard the call of Wainwrights men below.
 Thus gazing down, it was with difll- culty that Holton realized that an epoch-making battle had just taken place under his eyes. It seemed all