Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-02-18

vv,tb his northern viewpoint. sPproecn'
ed his patriotic task with gayet!, a.
most with contempt. And wheh "eD-
star recalled that the about-to-De-born
provisional government had casuaily
borrowed from him the sum Oh iorly
thousand dollars in order TO turn the
trick-borrowing it, forsooth' III ihu0
the same spirit az a commuter ooaiu
ing his train without the necessary
fare halls a neighbor and borro"s ton
cents-his natural optimism asser'eu
itself and he chuckled as In fancy Nc
heard himself telling the story TO Neu-
DIV Jerome and being branded haE
for his pains
"Wen, I'VE had one comfort ever
since / first saw 8hat girl" he re-
fiected philosophically. "While I've
never been so unhappy in all my llle
before, or had to tear my soul out ny
the roots so often, things nave Deen
coming my way so fast from other III
rections that | haven't had much OPP
portunity to dwell on the matter. Anu
for these compensating Offsets goou
Lord, / thank Thee"
He was John Stuart Webster again
when Dolores saw him next; during
the succeeding days his MOOD OF
cheerfulness and devil-may-care lhdlI-
ference never left him. And through
out that period of marking time DO
lores was much In his society, con-
dition which he told himself was not
to his liking but which, nevertheless
he could not obviate without seeming
Indifferent to her happiness. And 70
permit his friends fiancee to langulsh
in loneliness and heart-break did not
appear to John Stuart Webster as the
part of a true friend or courtly gen.
tleman-and he remembered that she
had once called him that.
They rode together in the cool of the
morning; they drove together on the
Malecon in the cool of the evening
chaperoned by Don Juan Cafetero ana
a grinning Sobrantean, they went shark
fishing in Leber's launchs they played
dominoes together; they discussed,
throughout the long, lazy, quiet after
moons, when the remainder of their
world retired for the siesta, books, art,
men, women, and things.
And not once, throughout two weeks
of camaraderie, did the heart-racked
Webster forget for a single instant
that he was the new friend, destined
to become the old. friend; never, to
the girls watchfuf eyes, did he be
tray the slightest disposition to estab
fish their friendly relations on a closer
| basis.
Thus did the arrival of The Day
find them. Toward sunset they rode
out together along the bay shore ant
noted far out to sea the smear o.
smoke that marked the approach o.
La Estrellita-on schedule time.
''You will go aboard her tonight,
Webster said very quietly to Dolores
"And your"
II shall 60 aboard with you. hav,
arranged with Don Juan for him t,
-stay ashore and to come out in LIE
ber's launch with the first reliable
news of the conflict. If Ricardo win
the city, he wins the revolution, ant
you and will then go ashore-to DIM
with him In the palace. If he lose
the city, he loses the revolution, ant
we will both do well to remain aboart
La Estrellita."
"And in that event, what will be
come of my brother?"
81 do not know; forgot TO asl
him, but If he survives, I imagin
he'll have sense enough to know he
whipped and will retreat on San Bru
no, fighting rear guard action, en-
bark aboard the steamer that brough
his men there, and escape"
''Tm worried about Mother jerks.
81 have asked Mother jerks to din
with us at 80 this evening, and hav
ordered a carriage to call for hel
When she comes I'll tell her every
thing; then, If she wishes to sta
ashore, let her. She's been throug
more than one such fracas and doesn
mind them at all, dare say"
And in this Webster was RICH
Mother jerks listened in profound s
lence, nodding her approval, as Wei
ster related to her the story of tn
advent in the country of Ricardo Rue
and his plans, but without reyealin
the identity Of Andrew Bowers.
At the conclusion of his recital til
old publican merely said: Cor bl
meI'
After a silence she added: M
sainted Emery used to s'y the prope
holds for white man In a bally no,
o. this nature was 40 to /. Cor. br
how my sainted Emery would henio
bein' ere this night to 'eip with ii
guns" She sighed.
"How about little bottle of wiz
to drink peace to your sainted Hem
: and luck to The Cause?" Webster SUI
gested.
That's wOt calls talkin'." Mothe
jerks responded promptly, and We
Ster, gazing rpf1ectivaIv ut tho al