Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-07-31
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SYNOPSIS.

bel searched for the hidden wealth of the
s man she had married: A few years later
Mario, but Rosa is promised to O'Reilly,
the American, and awaits his return from
New YORK. whence he has, gone to break
daughter. Esteban is secretly aiding the
Insurrectos.
CHAPTER Iv--Donna Isabel is at the
mercy of Pancho Cueto, her unscrupu-
lous administrator, who knows the deeds
to the plantation are lost with the treas
ure. One night she walks in her sleep
and meets her death in the treasure we'll
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'Reilly soon lands in
Cuba. but finds he will have hard work
to reach Rosa as communication with
the Insurrectos is 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 1nsurrectoS together.
+ CHAPTER With the meantime Cueto
plans to lead Cobo, a Spanish colonel OF
the hiding place of Esteban and Rosa.
CHAPTER IX-Cobo and his men cap
ture Rosa. hut she is immediately res
cued by Esteban. and Cobo is injured in
the fight. OReilly plans to reach the In
surrectos by the aid of Doctor Alvarado
a friend of the Cuban cause.
CHAPTER x-o'Reiny is about to
reach the 1nsurreetos. but his plans mis-
carry: He and Leslie Branch are ar
rested and sent back to America. Este
han tells Rosa of the coming of General
Weyler to ''pacify" the island.
! -cHApTr a * T-Esteban raids cueto's
home anG ~ I'm. but Spanish troops
come up a;$ ,.steban escapes badly
wounded. Tie tijes not reach home. WITH
her husband fsensio, with whom Rosa
has hce,i staalrg. give up hope and &C
into a spaa.sii concentration camp.
"Um-n pot quite so often as that"
Alvarado was silent for a moment !;
then he said: "Dine with me tonight
and We'll talk it over. I'm eager for
news OF my brothers and-there is
some one l wish you to meet. She is
interested in our cause"
"'She'? A woman?"
Eyes, and an unusual woman. She
has contributed literally to our cause.
l would like yon to meet her. d
every well; but I've only one suit Of
clothes, and it looks as if I'd slept in
it."
&C., bother the clothes!" laughed
the physician. "I've given most of my
own to my destitute countrymen.
Dout expect too mucl to eat, either;
very extra dollar. you know, goes
ne same way as my extra trou-
sers. 1t will be sort of patriotic
noveriy party Come at seven,
plaase."
That evening O'Reilly anticipated
his dinner engagement by a few mo-
ments in order to have word alone
with Alvarado.
This lady who is coming here to-
night has influence with Enriquez," Al
varado told him. you remember I
told you that she has contributed lib
orally. She might help you"
O'Reilly had met women with ideals,
with purposes, with avocations, and
his opinion of them was low. Women
who had missions" We're always tire
some, he had discovered. This one, ii
appeared, was unusual only in that she
had adopted particularly exacting
form of charitable work. Nursing,
even as a rich womans diversion,
must be anything but agreeable.
OReilly pictured this Evans person in
his mind--a large, plain, elderly crea-
ture, obsessed with impractical ideas
! f,f nt,IifftnD fhn ~ would
undoubtedly bore him stiff with stories
of her work; she would reproach him
with neglect of his duties to the suf-
| fertng. Johnnie was too poor to be
charitable and too deeply engrossed
| ut the moment with his own troubles
to care anything whatever about the
masses" And she was a miss
That meant that she wore thick glasses
and probably kept cats.
A ringing laugh from the cramper
hallway interrupted these reflections
then moment later Doctor Alvarad(
was introducing O'Reilly to q youns
woman so completely out of the pic
ture, so utterly the opposite of hi!
/ preconceived notions, that he was mo
J mentarly at a loss. Johnnie fount
! himself looking into pair of franl
! gray eyes. and felt his hand seized b,
firm, almost masculine grasp. Mis-
1 Evans, according to his first dazzlin,
impression, was about the most fetch
ing creature he had ever seen ant
about the last person by whom an.
young man could be bored. The girl
and She was girl-had brought int
the room an electric vitality, breezi
ness hard to describe. Altogether sh
was such vision of healthy, unaffect
ed and smartly gotten-up young won
anhood that O'Reilly could only STAN
mer his acknowledgment of the intro
duction, inwardly berating himself 70
/ his awkwardness. ,,as n,
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