Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-08-21
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! CHAPTER I--Don Esteban varona q
Cuban planter, possesses q great treasure
hoard. This wealth has been hidden ia
well on the estate by Sebastian. q slave
| and only he and his master know the Sc.
cret cache. Don Esteban's wife dies at
the birth Of twins. Esteban and Rosa.
Don Esteban marries the avaricious Donna
Isabel, who knows there is hidden treas
ure and tries to wiring the secret from Sc
bastian. When the slave refuses she tries
to hurt him by having Evangelina, his
daughter. whom he loves dearly and who
Is the special servant Of the twins. sold.
CHAPTER II-Through Donna Isabel's
scheming Don Esteban risks Evangelina
at cards and loses Crazed by the loss Of
ban and himsof.
CHAPTER IrI-Many Year, Donna,1s
bel searched for the hidden wealth of the
man she had married. A few years later
she seeks to marry Rosa to the rich Don
the American. and awaits his return from
New York, whence he has gone to break
OFF his engagement to his employers
daughter Esteban Is secretly aiding the
lnsur-ectos.
I'll CHAPTER 1v-Donna Isabel is at the
lous administrator, who knows the c DEEDS Hed
70 the plantation are lost with the treas
sure. One night she walks in her sleep
and meets her death In the treasure well
Esteban and Rosa are forced to flee when
Cueto denounces them as rebels.
CHAPTER v-Rosa writes to o.Reilly
OF their plight and urges him to come
and save her.
CHAPTER vI-o'Rei,ly soon lands in
Cuba but finds he will have hard work
to reach Rosa as communication with
The Insurrectos 10 difficult and danger
Gus.
CHAPTER vII-o'Reilly meets Leslie
Branch newspaper man. who is victim
Of tuberculosis. and they plan way to
Join the Insurrectos together.
CHAPTER vrIr-1n the meantime cueto
plans to lead Cobo, a Spanish colonel Of
volunteers, execrated for his cruelty, to
the hiding place of Esteban and Rosa
CHAPTER 1x-cob., and his men cap
ture Rosa, but she is Immediately res
cued by Esteban, and Cobo is injured In
surrectos by the aid of Doctor Alvarado,
. friend Of the Cuban cause.
4 CHAPTER x-O'Reilly ia about to
reach the Insurrectos. but his plans mis-
rested and sent back to America. Este.
%ss ss t. RsS ac # h ss sGn sana Of General
II CHAPTER EY1Fsteban raids Cueto'a
home and Ri ~, but Spanish troops
come up and Fs'nban escapes badly
wounded. He does not reach home. WITH
Esteban missing. Rosa, Eyangelina and
her husband Asensio, with whom Rosa
has been staying eive up hope and &C
Into a Spanish concentration camp.
NcHAPTER KILN New York o'Reiny
glaans q flit, s expedition to Cuba
Evans, a wealthy girl. who insists or
financing the venture and going along a.
q nurse. S., the expedition starts fol
guba in a SNAIL tramp steamer
acHApTER 5sTfI-zThe filibusters land IL
Guba a,id. pr ely learns Of Esteban ane
Rose, in5iatanzas visits her old homo
which Is In ruinsa
sCHApTER xIv-ln raid Estebaii,
dangerously III. is rescued from Spanish
prison by O'Reilly and the Cubans.
CHAPTER xv-Estehan tells o'Reilly
he believes the treasure is hidden IN the
We'll on the plantation. O'Reilly learns
the town In. which Rosa is held prisoner
and determines to go to her.
CHATTER xvI-with Jacket. a Cuban
boy. O'Reiiiy starts out determined to
save Rosa After many trials they en-
CHAPTER xVII-After a long search
O,Reilly finds Rosa, Ill and but shadow
Of her former self. He tells her Esteban
IL not dead and she partially RECEIVERS
her health. O'Reilly determines to search
for the treasure in the well on the old
plantation.
StsCHAPTER xvIII-O'Reilly finds in the
well indications that he Is on the right
track. but is handicapped by weakness
due to lack of food. Colonel Cobo learns
someone Is looking for the treasure and
resolves to Investigate
The boy and the girl fell to with a
will, and after time Johnnie Joined
them. Slowly. laboriously, the three OF
them. carried debris from the edge OF
the quarry and bricks from the ruined
house; they scraped up armfuls OF
leaves and trash-anything, in fact
which would serve to raise the bottom
of the shaft and conceal the entrance
to their enemy's resting place. 1t was
siayish work, but O'Reilly kept them
at it until they were ready to drop
Daylight overlook them at their task.
They were weak, sick, deadly tired,
they could barely shuttle few yards
at time when they finally reached
Asensios hut; nevertheless there was
hope in their hearts. for O'Reilly's rag
ged clothes 'sagged with the weight OF
gold pieces and the little metal box hi
carried was heavy Nor were they
greatly concerned about the safety Of
the treasure they had left behind, fol
the entrance to the cavern lay deepl,
buried, and Cobo, the guerrilla, stool
guard over the chests of plate and the
casks of coin.
Evangelina, vastly bewildered ait fhs
sight of the coin which WAS forced into
her palm, went for food aud spent mos
of the day in cooking 1T. The treasure
hunters alternately slept and ate. j
was not until we'll along toward eve
4 ming that Rosa and OReilly felt an,
l desire to take stock of the contents o
| that Jewel box. but finally, with head
| together and with backs to the door o
| the bohio, they made a furtive ex
animation. They found eAeralds AM
4 sapphires the value of which they dit
\ not attempt to estimate; and, beside
these. a miscellaneous assortment o
semiprecious stones.
O'Reilly realized vaguely that h
held in his lap fortune greater thai
his widest dreams had ever com