Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-03-03
The Government
Spy
BY CALVIN HENDRICKS

| SopgFisnt' AS-@r western newspaper Union.
When a stranger came up TO Guy
Marsden at Chihuahua and in very
good English asked him for dollar,
he gave him two.
with your card, please" he said ;
sit is only a loan," and Guy favored
him. Then his pensioner arifted away
in the crowd and Guy forgot all about
him.
Two weeks previous the young COM
mercial traveller had received dis
patches from the house he travelled
for, advising him to close up his bust
ness in Mexico and return home until
affairs in that zone of fierce, inten-
sive strife should quiet down.
Guy was doubly willing to obey
these orders so far as he was indi-
vidually concerned, but there was a
lady in the case. There was no busi-
ness whatever to be done at Chihua-
hua, but he had fingered there until
his presence had attracted the atten-
ton of the revolutionary leaders.
1t was at Chihuahua at a pretty
hacienda at the edge of the town that
he had met Lucetta Morse. She and
her father had come to the place to
settle up an estate of her dead moth
er, who was of Spanish descent.
Guy got away from the crowded
street, bent on call upon the fair
young girl who had grown to look for
his coming with a happy heart.
"We have glad news for you" said
Lueetta brightly, as she met him on
the piazza of her Mexican home.
II am happy to hear that" said Guy.
"You mean-|
Father closed up his business this
afternoon. We are free to go now.
He wishes to see if you will join us
in leaving Chihuahua"
do you think | would linger behind
with the prospect of two days in your
company" inquired Guy tenderly, and
Lucetta blushed and ran away from
him as her father approached.
1--WE have made all our arrange
ments," said Mr.. Morse. "Can you
be here about midnight, ready to ac-
company us?"
Surely" replied Guy as there
need of secrecy and dispatch?"
81 fear so. One of the servants
told us that we are under the ban, and
may be detained. A conveyance will
be here at midnight, and we can steal
away and get a fair start before our
absence is noted in the morning"
II shall return in two hours" prom
ised Guy. 'That lurking fellow in
the cloak and sombrero looks consid-
erably like the man l noticed behind
me when I came here" reflected,
as he started for his hotel intent on
hasty packing to join his friends.
Yes, the man was following him.
Guy was sure of that as he neared a
busy street. Then he saw the fellow
approach and speak to one of the
police guards at a corner. The latter
instantly overlook Guy.
"You will have to accompany me,
senior" he said resolutely.
Within half an hour he was ar
raigned before the committee in ques-
ton. Then another prisoner was led
before this arbitrary bar of justice. 1t
was a man who limped.
"Do you know this personage|
was demanded by the judge.
81 have seen him but once be-
fore"
"Where and when?"
'Tn Chihuahua not two hours since"
"You gave him money!"
Before Guy could speak. the cripple
interrupted.
"He gave me charity"
"Do you know that this man, Pedro
vaduro, is the chief spy of the gov
ernment?" demanded the Judge of
Guy.
81 did not"
1--WE cannot believe that; you have
fingered in the city long after your
business is done"
And one hour later the two prison
ers, secured in a darksome cell,
learned through hearing a conversa-
ton between two turkeys, that they
were to be taken to the public plaza
at daylight and shot as spies.
sit is poor recompense for your
kindness to me, senor," observed Va
duro.
"Still, it will not be at daybreak,
1t will not be on the plaza. We shall
be far enough away from here long
before then. Senior, If / open the way
to freedom, can you arrange for the
rest?'
"You mean to reach the border9'
81 do"
81 am sure that can provide for a
speedy flight"
"Then lead the way when I have
done my work." spoke vaduro quietly.
He produced a half dozen tools.
Proceed" he hailed gayly. as he
soon had the bars of the cell out of
place