Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-04-08
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Geary welcomes Webster and ia instru
mental in helping his friends guest
ashore. The latter Is known to Webster
as Andrew Bowers" Geary houses hin
at Mother Jenks Webster gets the idea
That Geary and Dolores are In love, ano
with the intention of giving Geary every
chance he smilngly contradicts the girls
statement that they have met before.
CHAPTER x. - Webster receives a
warning conveyed by Don Juan Cafe
tero" really John j. Cahferty, Irlshman
of good qualities fallen through overhaul.
gence in liquor that there Is plot to
assassinate him. Webster makes a firm
friend Of Cafferty. Later, the American
is insulted by Sobrantean army officer
and publicly ridicules him. A challenge
20 a duel Is accepted under such stern
conditions that the Sobranteans with
draw it.
The next morning Webster waited
until Dolores appeared and then ac-
companied her into the dining room
for breakfast.
"Well how did you pass your first
night in Buenaventura2 she inquired,
in the manufacture of breakfast con-
versation.
"Not very we'll. Jlggers bit me and
woke me up, and finally fell into
trance and had a visiOn-abOut you.
After that couldn't go to sleep again.
l was fairly bursting to see you at
breakfast and read your palm. I've
Just discovered wonderful system"
"ShOw me-" she flashed back at
him and she extended her little hand.
He picked 1t up gravely and with the
dull tine of fork made great show
of tracing the lines on her palm.
"YOu are about twenty-fOur years
old, and your ancestors were pure-bred
Castilians who came from Madrid
crossing the Atlantic In caravels. Ever
since the first Ruey landed on this
coast the family has been identified
with the government of the country in
one way or another. When you were
quite little girl, your father, Don
Ricardo Ruey at that time president
of Sobrante, failed to suppress a revO-
luton and was cornered in the govern
ment palace, which was set afire.
Through the bravery and devotion
of cOckney gentleman, Colonel Henry
jerks, an artillery officer In your
fathers army you were saved from
perishing in the burning palace. Col
o1el jerks turned you over to his
spouse, now known as Mother jerks,
with instructions to raise you a lydy,
and Mother jerks has carried out
those instructions. Colonel jerks and
your father were executed, and Mother
jerks sent you to the United States
to be educated You had a brother,
Ricardo Luis Ruey, older than your
self by seven or eight years, | should
judge. In some mysterious manner
you and your brother lost track of
each other, and at the present moment
ne believes you persisted in the flames
that Quilted the government palace.
"YOu are of proud, independent ma
ture; you work at something for liv-
ing, and inasmuch as you haven't been
able to set aside great deal of mon
ey from your earnings, you are plan
ming to terminate your visit to your
native land at an early date and re-
turn to the United States for the pur.
pose of getting back to work. These
plans, however will never be CON
summated
"Why? Because you are to be mar
Red to a nice man and live happily
ever afterward, and about sixty days
from now, if all goes well, |, John S.
Webster am going to introduce you to
your lOng-lost brother Ricardo. You
will first see Ricardo riding at the
head of his victorious rebel troops as
he enters Buenaventura. He will be
the next president of this wretched
country, if, fortunately, he is not killed
in the revolution he is now fOmenting
against his fathers ancient enemy.
Your brother does not know you are
living and it will be a proud and hap
by day for me when | bring him to
you. In the interim, what do you pur-
pose having for breakfast? Ham and
eggs sunny side up, an Omelette or a
cerealY
He released her hand and favored
her with the bOyish grin that always
had the effect of stripping the years
from him as one strips the husk from
a ripe ear of corn. She was gazing at
him in wide-eyed amazement.
us my brother really alive"
HE was as late as midnight last
night. Do you recall the chap saved
from being assassinated In New Or
leansT
"Yes."
"Your worthy brother. AID do you
recall the chauffeur whose passage to
this port | was forced to pay?"
"Yes."
"Tbe same individual. | sent him |
ashore in the launch with Billy, and he
has been housed at Ell Buen Amigo |
but left early this morning for the
back country to open a recruiting Of /
fee"
She reached across the little table
and squeezed his big brown hand Inn
pulsiVely. you're the most wonderful
man ever knew. Ald does my poor
brother know | am living, Mr.. Web