Evening star., 1923-08-13

| Most men set to work; others fall 10
! scheming. Your Uncle Tony has chosen
| the worser way, I'm sorry to say. He
is what men call an agitator. dema-
| gogue. His sole aim is to stir up strife.
/ He has deliberately set to work to In
| flame the passions of the mob to the
point of revolution, not caring how
| much ruin is wrought thereby. or what
blood split. If he may thereby be carried
/ to a place Of power. Do you under
standT
"'Perfectly.' said thought of my
| uncle's deep sad eyes and did not be-
| lieve a word of 1t. The possessor of
those eyes a Thoroughly bad man''-im
possible. l began to suspect that the
! thoroughly bad man. was much nearer
me at that moment. From that time
i forward Francisco ceased to have the
! slightest influence over me.
Our talk about politics languished.
Put 1t out of your pretty head, my
dear said Francisco. Thank God! that
horrible unsexed creature. the political
woman, has not yet penetrated to our
woman's sole duty Is to be beautiful
| Leave politics to us coarser beings,
men,
II saw that my political education
would not be much furthered by Fran
cisco. and that l should probably learn
more from him by appearing to be the
featherheaded creature that he COM
mended So l started to chatter. But
he was not perfectly satisfied that he
had laid aside the political bogie in me.
More than once during the remainder
of the voyage | caught him glancing
at me queerly. He was thinking per-
haps of my half-American ancestry.
| Francisco hates Americans. though he
never let's that appear of course. while
he's in America.
1T was on Wednesday night that we
left Santiago de Managuay. La Tipita
/ is fast. and We landed in New Orleans
on Friday. We had no sonner got there
than Francisco announced that his plans
were changed. and we were going on to
New York by train. AS soon as he said
New York | began to wonder If his trip
had anything to do with my uncle.
We left New Orleans on the first
train. Two men joined us there. Mana
guayans. When l say Joined US. l mean
they conferred with Francisco en- route
He did not present them to us. My
curiosity was fully aroused now. |
longed to hear what they talked about
But they held all their conferences in a
private compartment.
I'VE reached New York on Sunday
morning and went to the Meriden. We
| found Blanca Gutierrez already estab-
liShed there. Blanca is second cousin
of Francisco's. l don't know how she
got to New York. She was in Managuay
three week ago. l must say that In
Managuay the women look rather ask
ance at Blanca, and She does not ex-
favorite with the men of our set, par
ticularly Francisco | have sometimes
thought-but that doesn't signify
When We reached the Meriden other
men Kept turning up. none of whom was
presented to us. From one thing and
other, scraps of telephone conversat ton
chance remarks picked up. | gathered
that there was a little circle OF Mana
guayan politicians established here in
New York, whose meeting place was in
the house on 9Th street. What their
purpose was ! could not guess. There
were some Americans among them. too.
In particular there was one man.
Abanez. who seemed to be a sort of
leader among them. leader under
francisco, you understand; for 1t was
clear to me that Francisco was the mas
ter of them all.
The day we arrived this Abanez wa 9
cloSeted with Francisco for awhile in
our sitting room at the hotel, and al last
had an opportunity to overhear one of
FrdnclSCo'S mysterious conferences NV
| bedroom adjoins the sitting room on one
side, mammals on the other: she was
asleep. ] don't know where Blanca was
Her room was in a different part of the
| hotel.
Il was in my room when Francisco
and Abanez entered the sitting room
Perhaps Francisco thought | was asleep
too, or 1t may be that II never occurred
| to him that the doors are thinner in
; this country than at home. In the be-
ginning they were cautious enough but
as they went on they forgot and raised
their voices little. AS soon as heard
them come in. | softly drew the KEY
out of my door and put my ear to the
Keynote. / felt not the slightest COM
! FUNCTIONS in eavesdropping, for | was
sure that l was helping the right.
1t was maddening at first, they talk
ed so low. l could hear nothing. Then
francisco. 1t appeared. lost his temper.
heard nm say: I'll tell you why I
came up here. 1t looked to me as if
this job was in a fair way of being
bungled. | wanted to oversee things
myself. Do you understand the impor-
tance of it? Do YOU understand that II
the slightest thing goes wrong it will
mean complete ruin for all of uso on
the other hand If it's properly car
ried through, We can sit back, well
nave no more trouble
CONTINUED in Tomorrow's Starr