Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-05-13
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CHAPTER XII.-Webster, after looking
II over decides to put his whole fortune
into the mine. He sends Billy Geary t
the United States to purchase the neces
sary equipment advising him to marry
Dolores in Buenaventura before he leaves
Knowing that unless Ruey can overthrow
Sarros his mine will be conflscated Web
ster agrees to finance the venture Re.
turning to Buenaventura, he Is astonished
TO find Dolores still there and Geary or
his way to the United States.
CHAPTER XIII-Dolores tells Webster
that Billy Geary had asked her to marry
him and that she had refused Amazed
but entirely misunderstanding the situa-
ton, he accepts the explanation. He eX-
plains to Dolores how her brother has
laid his plans for the overthrow Of Sar-
ros Webster and Ricardo have a final
understanding
The weeks of clean living, Of alb
stentiOn from his wOnted daily alcO-
holic ration, had inspired in Don Juan
CafeterO a revival of his all but de-
funct interest in life; conversely, in
these stirring times he was sensible
of an equally acute interest in So
brantean politics, for he was Irish /;
and flabby indeed is that son of the
Green Little Isle who, wherever he
may be, declines to take a hand in
any public argument. For the love of
politics, like the love Of home Is new
or dead in the Irish.
1t is instinct with them-the
heritage, perhaps, of centuries of OPP
preston and suppression, which nur-
lures rather than stiles the yearning
for place and power. Now as Don
Juan turned Leber's launch shOreward
and kicked the motor wide open, he,
too, deserted against the dawn the
glare of the burning environments west
of the city, and at the sight his pulse
beat high with the lust of battle, the
longing to be in at the death in this
struggle, where the hopes and aspi-
ratiOns of those he loved were at stake.
Two months previously a revolution
would have been a matter of extreme
Indifference to Don Juan; he would
have reflected that it was merely the
outs trying to get in, and that if they
succeeded the sole benefit to the gen
eral public would be the privilege of
paying the bill. Today, however, in the
knowledge that he had an oppOrtuni-
ty to fight beside white men and per-
chance even up some old scores with
the Guardia Civil, it occurred sudden
ly to Don Juan that it would be
brave and virtuous act to cast his
lot with the Ruey forces He was a
being reOrganized and rebuilt, and +
hehOOved him to do something to dem
Onstrate his manhood.
Don Juan knew, of course, that
should the rebels lose and he be cap
tured he would be executed yet this
contingency seemed a far-fetched one.
in view of the fact that he had John
Stuart Webster at his back, ready to
finance his escape from the city. Also
Don Juan had had an opportunity, in
the hills above San Miguel de Padua,
for a critical study Of Ricardo Ruey
and had come to the conclusion that
at last real man had come to lib
crate SObrante; further, Don Juan
had had ocular evidence that John
Stuart Webster was connected with
the revolution, for had he not snug
gled Ruey into the country? 1t was
something to be the right-hand man
of the president Of rich little cOun-
try like SObrante; it was also some
thing to he as close to that right-hand
man as Don Juan was to his master
Webster; consequently sefintereSt
and his sporting code whispered to
Don Juan that it behOOved him to
demonstrate his loyalty with every
means at his command, even unto his
hearts blood.
"WhO knows" he cOgitated as the
launch bore him swiftly shOreward,
"but what I'll acquit meself with hon
or and get a fine job undher the new
administration? 'Tis the masther's
fight I'm thnkn'; then be the same
token. it's John Joseph Caffertys,
win, lose or draw, an may the devil
damn me if | fail him afther what
he's done for me. Sure, if Gineral
Ruey wins, crook av the masthers
finger will make me jefe poIitico. An
If he dOes-hOo-rOO Hoo-ray"
With his Imagination still running
riot, Don Juan made the launch fast
to the little dock, down which he
ran straight for the warehouse, where
the Ruey mercenaries were still con
gregated, busily wiping the factory
grease from the weapons which had
Just been distributed to them from the
packing cases. A sharp voice halted
him. he paused, painting, to find him
self looking down the long blue bar
rel of a service pistol.
"Who are you, and what are you
doing here" the man behind the
weapon demanded brusquely.
'Tm Private John ]. Cafferty, the
latest recruit to the Ruey army" Don
Juan answered cOmpOsedly. "WhO did
We think / was? Private secreth'ry to
that divtl SarrOs7 Man dear lower