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mercies of that rascal" he said, piously.
NO, l shall go on as am, even at a sac.
rihce to myself, I love Don Esteban's
children as my very own; and you,
sonora"
Isabel knew that she must win a com,
plete victory at once or accept irretriev.
able defeat.
"Never!" she interrupted, with a tone
Of finality. II can't accept your sacrifice
l am not worthy. Kindly arrange to turn
over your books Of account at once. ]
shall make you as handsome present as
my circumstances will permit in recogni
tion of your long and faithful service"
Then Pancho Cueto did an unexpected
thing: he laughed shortly and shook hi:
head,
Dona Isabel was ready to faint and hei
voice quavered as she went on: Under
stand me. we part the best OF friends de
spite all I have heard against you. 1 dc
not believe these stories people tell, fol
you probably have enemies. Even II al
they say were true should force myself
TO be lenient because of your affection fol
my husband"
PanchO Cueto Scores
The man rose, still smiling. 'It is
who have been lenient." said he.
"Eh? Speak plainly"
GLADLY. I have long suspected tina
Don Esteban hid the deeds Of his prop
erty with the rest Of his valuables, an,
now that you admit"
Dona Isabel recoiled sharply. Admit
J Are you mad? Deeds What are yol
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Copyright. 1917. Harper & Bros.
CHAPTER III Continued

posAs face, as she looked at the two
AS men, was white and worried. For a
time the three of them sat silent; theE the
American said slowly, you'll be shot If
you're caught"
Rosa whispered, Eyes! Think of it!'
Some one must run chances" Esteban
averred. Were fighting tyranny; all
Cuba is ablaze. 1 must do my part"
But sooner or later you1l be discov'
sred-then what?" persisted o'Reilly.
Esteban shrugged. "Who knows?
There1l be time enough when"
What of Rosa?"
AT this question the brother stirred un-
easily and dropped his eyes. O'Reilly
laid hand upon his arm. "You have
no right TO jeopardize her safety. With
out you, TO whom could she turn?" The
girhfashed her admirer a grateful glance.
Senior, you for one would see that
She"
"But-I'm going away" O'Reilly felt
rather than saw Rosa start, for his face
was Rverted. Purposely he kept his gaze
upon Esteban, for he didn't wish to see
the slow pallor that rose in the girls
cheeks, the look of pain that crept into
her eyes. 81 came here to tell you both
good'by. l may be gone for some time
IL don't know when 1 can get back"
AL LII LA oh
I'm sorry" Esteban told him, with
genuine regret. I'VE have grown very
fond Of you. You will leave many friends
here in Matanzas, I'm sure. But you will
come back before long, eh?"
Yes, as soon as can. That is, If
He did not finish the sentence.
Good, You're one of us. In the mean
time I'll remember what you say, and
at least I'll be careful" By no means
wanting in tact, Esteban rose briskly and
after shaking hands with O'Reilly, left
the two lovers to say farewell as bes
suited them.
But for once O'Reilly's ready tongue
was silent. The laughter was gone from
~-NN NJNo " 81
At his side.
Ffou say you are going away7" Rosa
inquired, breathlessly. but why?"
I'm going partly because Of this wal
ana partly because of-something else.
sIied to tell you yesterday. but couldn't
When the revolution started everybod.
nought IL was merely a local uprising
ana wrote my company to that effect
Dqt bless you, it has spread like fire
ana now the whole eastern end OF tn
's'and is ablaze."
hsteban says II will be more terribl
uan the Ten Years War;
Cod forbidl And yet all the old fighter
~ back again. Nobody believed tina
F'sz'mo Gomez had returned, but II
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vergd upon complete for his personality Everything
holy His nsoence and arrogance
displayed increasing violence day and hour were almost
incredible. This rate peasant dared to send dirty little scraps
which he had scrbed to ministers
and public men ordering this that according to his
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brandy champagne His admirers persisted
seeing him the prophet of the Almighty and believed that
could be saved unless they confomed to all the directions
which it might please him to give them.
The Rasputn became violent than during
few months which Immediately preceded the
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Thief Versus Thief

Having said this, Pancho Cueto stood
silent a moment in polite expectancy;
then, receiving no ineligible reply, he
bowed low and left the room.
To the avaricious Dona Isabel Cueto's
frank acknowledgment of theft was mad
dening, and the realization that she was
helpless, nay, dependent upon his char
ity for her living fairly crucihed her
proud spirit,
All day she brooded and by the time
evening came she had worked herself into
such a state OF nerves that she could eat
no dinner. Locking herself into her
room, she paced the floor, now wringing
her hands, now twisting in agony upon
her bed now biting her wrists in an en-
deavor TO clear her head and TO devise
some means of outwitting this treacher-
Gus overseer. But mere thought OF the
law frightened her; the longer she pom
dered her situation the more she real
| lied her own impotence. There was no
doubt that the courts were corrupt; they
were notoriously venal at best, and this
war had made them worse. Graft was
rampant everywhere.
To confess publicly that Esteban Va
roma had left no deeds. no title to his
property, would indeed be the sheerest
folly. No, Cueto had her at his mercy.
Isabel's Torture
Some time during the course OF the
evening wild idea came TO Isabel
knowing that the manager would spend
the night beneath her roof. she planned
to kill him. At first It seemed simple
thing to do--merely matter Of q dag
ger or a pistol, while he slept-but fur
ther thought revealed appalling risks and
dificulties. and she decided TO wait.
Poison was far safer.
That night she lay awake a long time
putting her scheme into final shape. and
then for an interval that seemed longer
she hung poised In those penumbraI
regions midway between wakefulness and
slumber. Through her mind meanvhl|e
there passed whirling phanfasna eoiIe
an interminable procession Of ngufes' ~
memories. real yet unreal convincing f+|
unconyincing When she did AZ laaI |14e
an awareness Of reality the effect a@|
merely TO enhance the yiyldness q i1.|4
phantoms. 10 lend substance 10 h1I It[||
Gus visions.
.........,..I II.|I. .......'. ......
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RA MISREPRESENTATION III Ssees!s@zyl:Ilzf

During the FeW Months Which Immediately Pre-
ceded the War the "Rasputin Craze" Became
More Violent Than EUer Before and Verged
Upon Complete Fdndticism for His Personal
ity by AH His WOrshiDers, High and Lou
When the President of France Came to Visit the
Tzar of Russia Rdsputin Told His Friends
He Was Going Back to His Nutiue PokrouU-
skoie-He Said He Had Tired of Life in the
e. Capital but Others Insisted That He Was
Asked to Leave
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Rasputin's Return to Siberia

During the spring the 1914 Rasputn to the
everybody declared his friends intended
the capital months his native village
Pokrowkoie in Siberia from his abor
made dean him in Petrogad but he remained nexbe
and rudy thrust aside those who would n have him
He declared that tired the existence which
been leading the last that the various
cues that had been his
sicened him. Such least the explanation which he chose
which he stuck Others it declared that the
for his departure that he had been given
that he would do better absent himself Petersburg
ing the time when the visit of the President of the French Republic
expected his there might embarrassing
than point of vew The hint had enragd him. and ne
had determined for much longer time than he had
he return to the capital that he would
remain in Siberia where he graphically put it, there
than the word
Whether the above strictly true not not position
say but it does sound improbable The
Raspun left ST. Petersburg for PokOws where he arrived
the first days of June 1914 accompanied by the Sisters who
his companions He received with such honors that
might the himself instead of the simple
he crowd composed of several thousand and
mpong his blessing and calling him with th and
show them the God which he supposed to be the
only Russia capable of indicating For few days this kind
thing continued and Rasputns house literally besged
people who had gathered POrowskoe
Siberia homage their national for such
Rasputn smiled and chuckd
his those when he allowed his salts
anything him. If in St Petersburg he had
been prophet this
he becoming kind of small god whose shrine
worshpng This just the sort of thing
and make him forget small unpeasannesses he might
have experienced before his departure from the capital
CONTINUED TOMORROW
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pleasure presuming give them advice which h
in matters Of the utmost public Importance AT first people
had laughed him. but very they had discovered that he could
himself them quickly and effectively and this had led
the general determination not interfere with him
but to leave him severely alone matter what he
might And when extortion
of money those who challenged them generally
did with alacr happened in the of several banks
which Mr. Maniuo applied for funds with the help of these %
crate of paper which Rapun had scrbbed his desire
that the should be put the disposal of his prog
What have been writing is fact which has been proved
y and contradcted by much single word Of
taon 1t for the hatred with which the Prophet
to be viewed AS time felt that something ought
be attempted against the mposor who had contrved break
through barriers could believed be absolutely
nabe But knew how this to be done and at the time
referring the idea of political assassination Of Raspun
had not entered into the peoples heads who
bring before the public in the following circumstances
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Petersburg Raun had been considered prophet here in this remote
god whose shrine whole nation worshiping"
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CHAPTER w
RETRIBUTION

A LTHOUGH for long time Dona Isa-
~ bel had been sure in her own mind
that Pancho Cueto, her administrator,
was robbing her, she had never mustered
courage to call him TO a reckoning. And
there was a reason for her cowardice.
Nevertheless, De Castano's blunt accu'
sation, coupled with her own urgent
needs, served to fix her resolution, and on
the day after the merchants visit she
sent for the overseer who at the time
was living on one Of the plantations.
Once the message was on its way, Isa'
bel fell into a condition bordering upon
panic, and was half minded TO counter
mand her order. She spent an evening of
suspense and a miserable night. This
last, however, was nothing unusual with
her; she was accustomed to unpleasant
dreams, and she was not surprised when
old familiar shapes came to harass her.
Nor. in view of her somnambulistic vaga'
ries, was she greatly concerned TO find
when she woke in the morning, that her
slippers were stained and that her skirt
was bedraggled with dew and filled with
burs.
Scarcely a month passed that she did
not walk in her sleep.
Cueto was plainly curious to learn why
he had been sent for, but since he asked
no questions, his employer was forced tc
open the subject herself Several times he
led up to 1t unsuccessfully; then she
took the plunge. Through dry, white lips
she began:
A Battle of Wits
my dear Pancho. times are hard. The
plantations are failing, and So" PanchC
Cuetos eyes were set close to his nose
his face was long and thin and harsh; HI
regarded the speaker with such sinister
unblinking stare that she could scarcely
finish; and so lean no longer affor'
10 retain you as administration
'rimes viii improve" he said.
"Imposslblel This war threatens L
tring utter ruin: and now that Estebal
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true. And the Maceos are here, too,
gained control of most of Santiago Prov
ince, and he's sweeping westward. OF
course, the Spaniards minimize the re-
ports of his success, and we. here, don't
understand what's really going on. Any
how, business has stopped, and my en-
ployers have ordered me home to find out
what's happened to their profits. They
seem to hold me personally responsible
for this insurrection."
"I see. And when you have told them
the truth you will come back. Is that it?"
q Perhaps"
"You said there was something else"
O'Reilly's hesitation became an en-
barrassed silence. He tried to laugh it
off.
There is, otherwise I'd stay right here
and tell my penurious friends to whistle
for their profits. 1t seems I'm cursed
with a fatal beauty. You may have no.
ticed it? No? Well, perhaps it's a mag
nificent business ability that have. Any
how, the president Of my company has a
notion that I'd make him a good sonin'
law"
"I- Oh" cried Rosa.
And at her tone o'Reilly hurried on:
"These rich men have the most absurd
ideas. suppose I'll have to
"Then you are in love, senor?"
The young man nodded vigorously. I'm
deed am-with the sweetest girl in Cuba
That's the whole trouble. That's why
I'm hurrying home to resign before I'm
fired" Not daring TO look too long oI
too deeply into Rosa Varona's eyes unit
she had taken in the whole truth, he
waited, staring at his feet. I'm sort
OF glad it has come to a showdown and
I can speak out I'm hoping she'll miss
me-" After a moment he ventured, "Wil
she-er-win you, Rosa?"
A WOman's Charms
81? Miss your" Rosa lifted her BROW
in pretended amazement. Then she tip
ned her head daintily TO one side, as 4
weighing his question earnestly. "Yo'
are amusing, Of course, butt won't hav'
much time to think about you, for am 81
soon 10 be married"
married? what?" o'Rellly starte'
violently, and the girl exclaimed, will
well.feigned concern:
"oh, senior. You have wounded your
self again on that thorn-bush. This plac
is growing up to brambles.'
'It wasn't my finger Something pierce
me through the heart. Married? Nor
sensepr
Indeed! DO you think I'm so ugl
nobody would have me?'
"Good Lord You" oReilly swa
,owad hard. 1T won't tell you the trut
when you know 1t so we'll
"The richest man in Matanzas aske
for my hand this very afternoon"
.who2 Mario de castanog"
"Yes."
o'Reily laughed with relief and thoug
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By REX BEACH

Author of The Spoilers" The
Barrier" Heart of the Sunset"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-29
NEWS OF WEEK
Told Herewith in Tabloid
Form
Condensed Items of Interest
for Every Member of
the Household
MISCELLANEOUS.

Allan r. Hawley. president Of the
American Aero club, says 10000 air
men would be more effective on the
French front than 100000 soldiers.
Kaiser Wilhelm sends letter Of
sympathy and coincidence to Constan-
tine on the loss of the Greek throne,
and asks him to make Germany his
home.
The chief Of the United States air
service urges congress to appropriate
$500, 900. 900 for the purpose Of keep
ing continuous raiding party back
Of the German lines.
Any drink containing alcohol was
delned by the postoffice department
as being Intoxicating liquor within
the meaning of the law forbidding
mailing of liquor advertisements into
dry territory after July /.
An official report of the 1916 cpl
demic of infantile paralysis shows
that from June to November there
were 5000 deaths in the United
States and more than $1,000 cases.
The national council of defense will
fix the price at which the steel for
the new merchant ships will be pur-
chased. II will be around 3 cents per
pound.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-29
@ EN- EEAL.

Japanese imperial diet has decided
to double the naval construction pro-
gram, because America has entered so
largely into bigger program.
A memorial arch at Valley Forge
was presented to the state of Penn
sylvania by the nation. Champ Clark
presided and made an eloquent ad-
dress lauding the patriots of 1776.
Sundays revival at New York broke
all records as to the number of trail
hitters (9S.264) and the size of the
free will offering ($114,000).
President Wilson has notified the
Belgian commission that America Is
determined to restore Belgium to her
place among the nations of earth.
The Illinois legislature adjourned
on June 16, after session which was
productive Of much constructive leg
islation. according to Gov. Lowden.
After a running fight of three hours,
during which four men were killed
and $50 shots fired, German sub
marine sank the American vessel Mo-
reni.
A reputable physician of Terraville,
s. D., reports that a girl of IL gave
birth to normal 71s-pound baby. A
boy of IA was the father.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-29
DOM EsTIc.

Complete returns on the recent reg
istration give total of 9,659,s3S men
eligible for service in the army.
District Judge Foell granted rs rail-
roads of Illinois 10 days to show why
they should not be held in contempt
of court for violation of hi Injunction
forbidding charge of more than 2
cents per mile.
A new state law of West Virginia
compels every able-bodied man to
work at least 36 hours per week.
President Wilson has decided to
take advantage Of recent legislation
and declare an embargo on all food
stuffs.
The department of labor is taking
steps to mobilize farm laborers to the
end that crops may be harvested with
expedition.
Government Investigators have
found that munitions makers have in
dulged In general practice of max
ing only partial returns to federal Of
ficials as a means of evading the tar
on profits.
Herbert c. Hoover, proposed food
dictator, has urged the enrolment of
every housewife in the United States
to further food conservation plans.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-29
GRIM GAS BATTLES FOUGHT
Asphyxiating Shells Fired In Great
Quantities by Both Sides In Struo-
giles on British Front.

Andre Tudesq, writing of the battles
on the British front, says there was
such an expenditure of asphyxiating
shells one day that six hours after the
last deluge Of them suffocating smells
were still passed through.
Lavish expenditure Of gas on both
sides form characteristic Of the fu-
rious attack and counter-attacks
which have been delivered day and
night round these two villages. The
mask is here as precious as the
grenade or the rife.
As In frightful carnival, In the
manner of Edgar Allan Poe one could
see In the night on the slopes west Of
Fresnoy entire regiments In masks,
lighting and killing each other In the
midst Of black -sapors, which were
rendered more fantastic by the light Of
the moon.
The hand-to-hand struggle thus took
on most singular forms. Throwing
away their arms the combatants would
fly at each others threats and try to
tear away each others masks. Few
prisoners were taken In these encoun-
tiers, and the wounded are fewer still.
Death alone receives the lions shar."
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-29
CRIMINAL.

The entire Ludicek family, consist.
ing Of mother and three grown chill.
dren. were found dead in their home
near Toledo, la.
Miss Grace Lusk, teacher in a
Wisconsin teachers school, maddened
by jealousy, shot and killed Mrs. Da-
vid Roberts, wife Of physician, and
then turned the pistol on herself.
Henry Conley, a negro, was lynched
by mob Of 1000 at Holdenville, Ok,
after his Identification. had been es-
tablished by his white victim, the
wife of wealthy farmer.
Hiram Rice, so. shot and killed
Sheriff ]. X. May and Marshal Au-
gust Tucker at Nashville, Ill. He had
threatened to kill man who was to
have married his daughter and the
officers attempted to disarm him.
Within three hours after they had
held up the cashier of the bank at Ar
cadia, Ia, and obtained $1,000, the
robbers we're captured near Manila.
The money was recovered.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-29
COMM ERcIAL.

big business has been formally
notified thatthe government will pay
no war prices for necessities. New
legislation permits an exercise of dis.
erection not heretofore possible.
The most recent loan to Great Brit.
ain brings the total advanced to the
allies UP to $9S3,O0O,OOo, of which
Great Britain has received $535. 1000,
600.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-29
WAR sREuTiEs.

Although prevented by conscientious
scruples from enlisting as combatants
In the war, the Seventh Day Advent
lists express willingness to do their
part.
Italy has endorsed the aims Of the
other allies as her object in the war.
Ambassador Elkus says the Turks
regret very much the entry of Amer
lea into the world war.
Irish rebels who participated In the
Dublin riots of a year ago are to be
liberated by the British government.
The tremendous sum OF $66,521, 400,-
600 has been expended by belligerents
in the European war, exclusive OF the
money expended by America.
Last weeks losses by U-boat depre-
dations were greater than during any
like period for the last 10 weeks
Vice-Admiral William s. Sims is
commander-in-chief of the allied fleets
in Irish waters. During absence Of
the British naval commander-in-chief
the American admiral will be in full
charge.
A great fleet of German submarines
Is said to be waiting somewhere in
the Atlantic" to sink the transports
carrying American soldiers to France.
The British transport Comercnian
was sunk by U-boat in the Medi-
terranean, with the loss of 60 soldiers.
Because of the recent aerial raids
on England and the ensuing death Of
noncombatants, huge mass meeting
in London urged the government to
make similar raids on Frankfort and
Berlin.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-06-29
PLENTY TO EAT
But NO APPETITE
tennessee Farmer Says He Came
Near Being Knocked Out
Last Summer.
HAS GAINED rs POUNDS
~This TanIao just Took Right Hold Of
Me and Put Me on My Feet" He
says--ls Strong and Well and
Don't Mind Work Now.

may sound unreasonable, and you
may believe me or not, but after TAX
ing four bottles of Tanlac have gained
rs pounds" said J. B. williams, a we'll
known and prosperous farmer who re-
sides at Greenbrier, Tenn, near NASH
vile, Tenn.
II had a bad case Of stomach trou-
bic last summer, and 1t came pretty
near knocking me out" continued Mr..
Williams. ut was something like
nervous Indigestion. I began to go
down hill. 1t looked like the more
medicine / took and the harder ] tried
to get well, the worse would get. We
had pretty near everything to eat, but
nothing tasted right, and got so weak
and nervous / couldn't do anything.
Before had this spell ! weighed
100 pounds, and kept falling off until
j got down to where i only weighed
1876 pounds.
II am now back to my regular weight
again, and feel strong and well. My
appetite is simply fine now, and don't
mind my work. This Tanlac just took
right hold of me, and put me on my
feet.
"Well, sir, the second day after be-
gan taking It, got hungry and oh,
how good that old ham did taste! I
sleep fine now, too, and am not nerv-
Gus like = was. Even the barking OF
the dogs at night does not wake me up.
II never believed a medicine could
be made that would do anybody as
much good as Tanlac has done me, and
j want to recommend II to anybody
who has suffered with the same trou-
bic have"
There is Tanlac dealer in your
town.--Adv.