Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-05-31

| posal to your beloved stepm0ther, .
| O'Reilly explained, with pretense OF
| annoyance.
! Eyes, Senior O'Reilly believes he can
! infuriate Isabel by laying siege to her
He's Abolish person" Rosa's
| cheeks were family flushed and her
color deepened at the amusement in
| Esteban's eyes. "He makes love
| wretchedly."
''What little overheard wasn't bad,
| Esteban declared; then he took
| O'Reilly's hand.
Esteban was a handsome boy
| straight, slim and manly, and his re-
semblance to Rosa was startling
With look engaging in it's frank di-
| your meetings here and I came to
apologize for our stepmother's discour-
tesy. I'm sorry we can't invite you
| into our house, but-you understand?
Rosa and / are not like her; we are
quite liberal in our views; we are al
most Americans, as you see. / dare
| say that's what makes Isabel hate
Americans so bitterly"
wouldn't it please her to know that
I'm becoming Cubanized as fast as
| ever 1 CAM" ventured the caller.
ooh, she hates Cubans, too" laughed
the brother. "She's Spanish, you know.
| Well, it's fortunate you didn't see her
today. Br-r! What a temper! She'll
| walk in her sleep tonight, if ever"
Rosa nodded soberly, and O'Reilly,
suppressing some light reply that had
sprung to his lips, inquired, curiously,
| "What do you mean by that?"
Brother and sister joined in explain
| ing that Donna Isabel was given to Pc
culiar actions, especially after periods
of excitement or anger, and that one of
her eccentricities had taken the form
of somnambulistic wanderings. ooh,
she's crazy enough" Esteban con-
Guided. 81 believe it's her evil con-
SCIENCE
O'Reilly scanned the speaker silent
| ly for moment; then he said, with a
| gravity unusual in him, II wonder if
you know that you're suspected Of
working for the insurrecto cause"
Indeed? / didn't know"
swell, it's a fact" O'Reilly heard
Rosa gasp family. SIS it true?" he
| asked.
81 am a Cuban"
Cuban? Your people were Span
ish."
"True. But no Spaniard ever raised
| a Spanish child in Cuba. We are Gu
bans, Rosa and I. go everywhere, and
the Spanish officers talk plainly be-
| fore me. Somebody must be the eyes
and the ears for Colonel Lopez"
| Colonel Lopez!" exclaimed O'Reilly.
Esteban nodded.
Rosa's face, as she looked at the two
men, was white and worried. For a
time the three of them sat silent; then
the American said, slowly, you'll be
| shot if you're caught"
"Some one must run chances" Este
| ban averred. "We're fighting tyranny !;
all Cuba is ablaze. must do my part"
| "But sooner or later you'll be dis
| covered-then what" persisted O'Reil-
ly.
Esteban shrugged. "Who knows?
| There'I be time enough when"
"What Of Rosa?"
At this question the brother stirred
uneasily and dropped his eyes. O'Reil-
| ly laid hand upon his arm. you
Without you, to whom could she turn p
| The girl flashed her admirer a grateful
| glance.
"Senor, you for one would see that
| She"
"But-I'm going away" O'Reilly
his face was averted. II came here to
tell you both good-by. may be gone
| for some time. IL don't know when
I can get back"
'Im sorry" Esteban told him, with
genuine regret. eve have grown very
| fond of you. But you will come back
before long, eh? You're one of us. In
the meantime I'll remember what you
say, and at least I'll be careful" BY
no means wanting in tact, Esteban rose
O1IShIy dAu3 dItCI S9AiohAbo 1IcAANAo "AeAA
O'Reilly, left the two lovers to say fare
we'll as best suited them.
But for once O'Reilly's ready tongue
was silent. The laughter was gone
from his blue eyes when he turned to
the girl at his side.
"You say you are going away?" Rosa
inquired, breathlessly. "But why?'
''I'm going partly because of this
war and partly because cf-something
else. 1 tried to tell you yesterday, but
I couldn't. When the revolution start
ed everybody thought it was merely
local uprising, and wrote my COM
pany to that effect; but, bless you, it
has spread like fire, and now the whole
eastern end of the island is ablaze.
Business has stopped, and my employ
ers have ordered me home to find out
what's happened to their profits
"You said there was something
else"