Evening star., 1921-06-12

bobbing as they ran forward. And a
tremor ran along the line OF PROSTATE
royalists. A rifle spoke from roof
top, the straw-hatted ones wavered,
dropping briefly on one knee. rising,
running as IL the devil were at their
pug Erinned at the ragazxa- they
had .wnggled out. into the middle of
the street and sprawled side by side,
barricade Of mattresses and overturned
tables fiiched from the Cafe Albion.
The raEazza's eyes were steady. but
he kept licking his lips with the tip
of his tongue and mumbling under his
breath.
Come on. come on. you little black
sons of Satan! I'm in your pay no
longer. Come one step farther and
I'll settle your hash. You daren't! You
daren't you dog-stealers. you low
But they came. cammarillo had
promised them loot: he had promised
to be in the palace before dawn
president, giver Of awards, admins
traitor of all the Yankee dollars in
ing what men will endure for the
sake of gold. There were ragged
poems in Cammarillo's army who as
pired to great things under the new
regime. SO, stumDilnS III tne thlck
dust, burned by the fiery rays of the
sun, punished by the flick and sting
and shocking impact of royalist bull
let's. they came on.
Take that" said carrinston. squint. t.:
qs rasd ovsr his back and AND aush
ed aloud. Promise me one thing,
Signor. Pug he begged. Give me
| the Liberator. You have two things
to fight for-love and the Fairchild
property in Magella. With me it's a
simple matter OF atonement-and self
, respect. Let me pick off the Liberia
tor with my own hand"
DUG laughed. But his reply was
drowned by the coughing Of all the
royalist rifles at once. A shout went
up. The street was fuli Of men where
a moment before there had been
| only two or three. A huge. umbrellas
shaped puff OF smoke smirched the
spotless skyAproof that the revolu-
tionists had fired the suburbs. The
street in front Of the barricade was
| minced and shredded by volleys that
| seemed to the defenders to be spit {
them from four sides. Here and there
bent his legs in oddly contorted atti-
tudes and rolled over dead No one
could tell what was happening to
Cammarillo's tnen. for the dust of
combat settled like a smoke-screen
between the armies. Suddenly demor-
allied by. the confusion. the royalist
soldiers broke and ran, scattering to
the Piazza. Pug and the ragazza gave
tongue. but their arguments were lost
| in the tumult of shouting and cursing.
In the Piazza they rallied again and
a tattered. blcodstained citizen, reel
ing up to Pug. gave him the Magellan
| dag, saluted and crawled away on all
fours to die in decent privacy be-
meath the Cathedral arcade. Caring.
ton hftched at his belt and spat trf-
umphantly.
remarked.
''It was wished on me. Glory be to
God, there's Gonellt. Tell him to take
his men out through the San Pedro
gate and let 'efn push .CammArillo
/ from behind-into the sea, IL he can.
Wen hold 'em here. You 60 with
Darlington saluted and went, stop-
ping only to retrieve the patient sor-
| rel from the garden OF the presiden-
tial pAlace. After that it was a case
! Of two armies playing blindrnan' 8
| buff In the crowded alley ways and
narrow, sunbaked streets Of, the city,
Nov lie roysiists were ''it," nov the
nationaiists. .Commarillo taeged Pug 8
| men in the Piazza and was chased a
quarter o6 4 mile Ter his patnA The