The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-03-10

MS hands In delight.
-FOUR happiness, my dear Coloael."
webster continued. as extrayagant
eriet compared with my delight in
meeting Sobrantean gentleman who
""s no desire TO skewer me-" He turn.
co TO Andrew. while introductions
are L: order. old son. suppose you
complete the job and Introduce your
sell. I'm always suspicious of a man
with an alias"
linen behold the death of that i'm.
pudent fellow Andrew Bowers. late
valet de ehambre to this eminent min.
ing engineer and prince of gentlemen,
Mr.. John Stuart Webster. Doctor
racheco, will you be good enough to
perform the operation?"
This gentleman" said the doctor.
laying his hand on Andrews shout
oer' rs Don Ricardo LuIz Ruey, a gen.
uenan, a patriot, and the future presi.
Gent OF our unhappy country"
webster put his hands on the young
mans shoulders. RICARDO. my son." he
asked earnestly. do you think you
could give me some little hint of the
approximate date on which you will
assume Officer BY the nine gods OF
war, ] never wanted friend at court
so badly as | want one tonight"
webster sat down and helped him.
self from box of cigars he found on
Ricardo's bureau. 81 feel l am among
friends at last" he announced between
preliminary puffs $50 listen while |
spin strange tale. I've been the pic.
lure OF bad luck ever since started
Tor this infernal-this wonderful coun.
try OF yours. In New Orleans | took
Sunday morning stroll In Jackson
square and came across two men try
ing to knife another. In the interest
OF common decency | interfered and
won a sweeping victory. but to my
amazement the prospective corpse took
TO his heels and advised me to do the
Same-"
d Ricardo Ruey sprang for ,Iohl
Stuart Webster by George" he said
In English, I'm going to hug you, too.
really ought to kiss you, because I'm
that man you saved from assasslna-
ton, but-too long in the U. s. A., I
suppose; I've lost the customs Of my
country"
"Get out" yelled Webster, Tending
him off. by the way, Rcardo-Tm
going to call you Rick for short-do
you happen to have any relatives In
this country"
"Yes, number of second and third
cousins"
Coming down on the steamer, |
didn't like to appear curious, but all
the time l wanted to ask you one
question"
ASK it now"
Are you a Sobrantean?"
81 was born in this country AID
raised here until / was fourteen"
But youre-why, hang it, You're
not Latin?"
mo, I'm mixture, with Latin pre-
dominating. My forebears were pure
Castilians from Madrid, and crossed
the Western ocean In caravels. It's
been a matter of pride with the house
of Ruey to keep the breed pure, but
despite all precautions, the family tree
has been grated once with a Scotch
and once with the shamrock of Ire
land. My mother was an Irish woman"
"You alibi yourself perfectly, Ricar-
do, and my curiosity Is appeased. Per-
nit me to continue my tale" he added
in Spanish, and forthwith he related
with humorous detail his adventure at
the gangplank of the steamer that had
borne him a1d Ricardo Ruey south.
Ricardo interrupted him. 1--WE know
all about that, friend Webster, and we
knew the two delightful gentlemen had
been told off to get you-unofficially
The Sobrantean revolutionary junta
has headquarters In New Orleans. II
Is composed Of political exiles, for
Sarros, the present dictator of So
brante. rules with an iron hand, and
has a cute little habit of railroading
his enemies to the cemetery via the
treason charge and the firing squad.
He killed my father. who was the
best president this benighted country
ever had, and / consider 1t my Chris
tian duty to. avenge my father and
patriotic duty to take up the task he
left uafinished-the task Of making
over my country.
an Sobrante, as In most of the cOun-
tries In Central America. there are
two distinct classes of people-the
aristocrats and peons-and the arist0-
crat fattens on the peon. as he has
had a habit Of doing since Adam. We
haven't any middle class to stand as
q buffer between the twO-which
makes 1t a sad proposition. My father
was an ideallst and dreamer and he
dreamed of reform In government and
solution of the agrarian problem
which confronts all Latin-America. He
trusted one Pablo Sarros. an educated
peon, who had commanded the gov
eminent forces under the regime my
father overthrow. My tender-hearted
parent discovered that Sarros was
plotting TO overthrow him but instead
of having him shot. he merely removed
him from command. SarrOs gathered
handful OF bandits. Joined he old
government forces my father had con-
Quered. hired a couple dozen Yankee
In