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It was Don Juan Cafetero. "They're all Inside," he whispered and laid finger oil lip. "They got In half an hour ago, an' divil a sowl the wiser save mesejf." "Thank you, John. Now that I know the coast Is clear and the launch "We'll Just Cruise Slowly Around and Listen." ready, I'll gV back to the hotel for Miss Ruey." "Very well, sor," Don Juan replied, and crawled back under the ware house. Half an hour later the sound of hoof beats warned him of the ap proach of Webster and Dolores In a carriage, and he came forth, loaded In the launch such baggage as they had been enabled to bring, and held the gunwale of the boat while uls passen gers stepped aboard. About a halt a mile off shore Web ster throttled down the motor until the launch barely made steerage way. "It would never do to go aboard the steamer before the fracas started ashore," he explained to DOlores. "That would Indicate a guilty knowl edge of coming events, and in the event of disaster to the rebel arms it Is just possible Senor Sarros might have pull enough, if he WBi flight six hours In advance of hostil ities, to take us off the steamer and ask us to explain. So we'll Just cruise slowly around and listen; the attack will come just before dawn; then shortly thereafter we. can scurry out to tfie steamer and be welcomed aboard for the sake of the news we bring." Bhe did not answer, and Webster knew her thoughts were out where the arc lights on the outskirts of Buena vefttura met the open country—out where the brother she could scarcely remerbber and whom, until a month previous, she had believed dead, would shortly muster his not too numerous followers. In the darkness Webster could hear the click of her beads as she prayed; on the turtle deck forwanf Don Juan Cafetero sprawled, thinking perchance of his unlovely past and wondering what effect the events shortly to tran spire ashore would have on bis future. He wished Webster would relent and offer him a drink some time within the next twenty-four hours. In times of excitement like the present a man needs a drop to brace him up. Five times the launch slipped lazi ly down the harbor along the strag gling two mile water front; five times It loafed back. The moon, which was In the first quarter, sank. Then to Webster's alert ear there floated across the still waters the sound of a gentle purring—the music of an auto truck. He set the launch In toward Leber's little dock, and presently they saw the door of Leber's warehouse open. Men with lanterns streamed forth, lighting the way for others who bore between them heavy burdens. "They're emplaclng the machine guns In the motor-truck," he whis pered to Dolores. "We will not have ta wait long now. It's aearly 4 o'clock." Again they backed oat Into the bay until tfiey could see fsr oat ovsr the sleeping city to the hills beyond in the west. Presently along tlffe side of those hills the headlight of a locomo tive crept, dropping swiftly down grade until It disappeared In the low lands. A half hour passed; then to the south of the city a rocket flared sky ward ; almost instantly another flared from the west, followed presently by a murmur, scarcely nudlble, as of a muffled snare drum, punctuated pres ently by a louder, sharper, insistent ' puck-puck-puck that, had Webster but known It, was the bark of a Maxltn- Vlckers rapid-fire gun throwing a stream of shells Into the cantonments of the government troops on the fringe of the city. Webster's pulse quickened. "There goes the 'tillery to the south, sor," Don Juan called, and even as he spoke, a shell burst gloriously o«er the. government palace, the white walls of which were already looming over the remainder of the city, now faintly visible In the approaching dawn. "That was to awaken our friend, Sarros," Webster cried. "I'll bet a buffalo nickel that woke the old horse thief up. There's another —and an other." The uproar swelled, the noise grad ually drifting around the city from west to south, forming, seemingly, a semicircle of sound. "The govern ment troops are up and doing now," Webster observed, and speeded up his motor. "I think It high time we played the part of frightened refugees. Mau ser bullets kill at three miles. Some strays may drop but here In the bay." He speeded the launch toward I.a Estrellita, and as the craft scraped in alongside the great steamer's com panion landing, her skipper ran down the ladder to greet thein and inquire eagerly of the trend of evenfs ashore. "We left in a hurry the instant it started," Webster explained. "As Americans, we didn't figure we had any interest in that scrap, either way." He handed Dolores out on the landing stage, tossed their baggage after her and followed; Don Juan took the wheel,, and the launch slid out and left them there. At the. head of the companion ladder Webster paused and turned for another look at Buenaventura. To the west . three great fires now threw a lurid light skyward, mocking an equally lurid light to the east, that marked the approach of daylight. He smiled. "Those are the cantonment barracks burning," he fo Dolores. "Rlcardo is keeping his word. He's, driving the rats back Into their own holes." The weeks of clean living, of ab 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 brnntean politics, for he was Irish; and flabby Indeed Is that son of the Oreen 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 nev er dead In the Irish. It Is Instinct with them —the heritage, perhaps, of centuries of op pression and suppression, which nur tures rather than stifles the yearning for place and power. Now as Don Juan turned Leber's launch shoreward and kicked the motor wide open, he, too, descried against the dawn the glare of the burning cantonments west of the city, and at the sight his pulse beat high with the lust of bnttle, 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 tight beside white men and per clMnce even up some old scores with the Ouardla C'vll, It occurred sudden ly to Don Juan that It would be a brifve and virtuous act to cast his lot with the Ruey forces. He was a being reorganized and rebuilt, and It behooved hlrn to do something to dem onstrate bis manhood. Don Juan knew, of course, that should the rebels lose and lie be cap tured, he would be executed; yet this contingency seemed n 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 8a n Miguel de Padua, for a critical study of Rlcardo Ruey and had come to the concluaion that at last a real man had come to lib erate Sobrante; further, Don Juan had had ocular evidence that John Stuart Webster was connected with the revolution, for had be not smug gled Ruey Into the country? It was something to be the rlgtit-hand man, of the president of a rich little coun try like Sobrante; It was also some thing to be as close to that right-hand oaan as Don Jnsn was to Us master, THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, GRAHAM, N. 0. Webster; consequently self-luterest and Ills sporting code whispered to Don Juan tlint ft behooved him to demonstrate Ills loyalty with every means at his command, even unto his heart's blood. "Who knows," he cogitated as the launch bore him swlrfTJr shoreward, "but what I'll acquit meself with hon or and get a rine Job undher tlie new administration? "Tls the masther's flght, I'm thlnkln'; then, be the same token, 'tis John Joseph Caflferty's, win, lost or draw, an' may the devil damn me If I fail him afther what he's done for me. Sure, If Olneral Ruey wins, a crook av the masther's finger will make me'Jefe politico. An' If he do*s—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, panting, to find him self looking down the long blue bar rel of a sen-Ice pistol. "Who a*e you, and what are you doing here?" the man behind the weapon demanded brusquely. . "I'm Private John J. the latest recruit to the Ruey army.'HDon' Juan answered composedly. "Who did ye think I wqs? Private secretary-to fhat dlvjl Sarros? Man, denr, lower that Hun av yours, for God knows I'm nervous enough as It Is. Have ye something' ye could give me to fight wit.' avic?" 1 The man who had challenged him — a lank, swarthy Individual from the Mexican border —looked him over with twinkling eyes. "You'll do, .Caf ferty, old timer," he drawled, "and If you don't, you'll wish you had. There's a man for every rifle Just now. but I wouldn't be surprised If there'd he H right smnrt more rifles than inen be fore a great while. Help yourself to the gun o' the first man that goes down; In the meantime, hop Into that there truck and keep the cartridge belt for the machine guns full up. You're Just In time." Without further ado Don Juan climbed Into the truck. A little cit adel of «fiheet steel had been built around the driver's seat, with .a nar row slit In front through which the latter peered out. The body of the truck had been boxed In with the same material and housed two machine guns, emplaced, and a crew of half a dozen men crouched on the floor engaged in loading thp belts. Four motor, bicycles, with sturdy, specially-built side cars attached, and a machine gun In each side car, were waiting near by, togeth er with a half-dozen country carts loaded with ammunition cases and drawn by horses. "How soon do we start?" Don Juan demanded anxiously, as he crowded In beside one of his new-found com rades. "I believe," this Individual replied In the unmistakable accents of an Ox ford man. "that the plan Is to wait until five o'clock; by that time all the government troops that can be spared from the arsenal and palace will have been dispatched t« the fighting now taking place west of the city. Natu rally, the government forces aren't "'Entry, TH«y'r» Com in'." anticipating an attack from the ret\r. and so tbey will, in all probability, weaken their bas«. I believe that eaae* our task; certainly it will save us many men. Duo Juan nodded Wis entire approval to tbl* shrewd plan of campaign and fell to stuffing cartridges In the web belting, the while he whistled softly, unmusically, and with puffing, hissing sounds between hi* snaggle teeth, until a Sobrantean gentleman (It was Doc tor Pscheco) came out of the ware house and gave the order to proceed. They marched along the water front for four blocks and then turned up a side street, which happened to be the Calle de Concordia, thus enabling Mother Jenks, who was peering from the doorway of El Buen Amigo, to see them coming. •'Hah!" she muttered. ' "Enery they're comln'. The worm Is turrtln', 'Enery; 15 years you've wyted for vengeance, my love, but tod'y you'll get It." She waddled out Into the street and held up her hand in a gesture as au thoritative and imperious a*s that or a traffic officer. "Batter-r-ry 'alt!" she croaked. She had heard the late 'En ery give that command often enough to hove acquired the exa/t Inflection necessary to make an Impression upon men accustomed to obeying such a command whenever given. Instinc tively the column slowed up; some of the Foreign _ Legion, old coast artil lerists. no doubt, came to a halt with promptness and precision; all stared at Mother Jenks. "'Ow about 'arf'n do>,eo cases o' good brandy for the wounftid?" Moth er Jenks suggested. "An' 'ow f„Vout a bally old woman for a Red ""N»SK nurse?" » "You're on. . ma'am," the foreign leader replied promptly, and translat ed the old lady's suggestion to Dr. I'acheco, who accepted gracefully and thanked Mother Jenks In purest Cas tlllnn. So a detail of six men was told -off to carry the six cases of brandy out of El Buen Amigo and load them on the ammunition carts; then Mother Jenks crawled up into the armored truck with the machine gun crew, and the column once more took up its line of rapid march. The objective of this unsuspected force within the city was, as Rtcardo Ruey shrewdly suspected It might be, poorly garrisoned. Usually a force of fully 500 men was stationed at the national arsenal, but the sharp, sav age attack from the west, so sudden and unexpected, had thrown Sarros Into a panic ami left him no time to plan his defense carefully. His first thought had been to send all his available forces to support the troops bearing the brunt of the rebel attack, and It*was tremendously Important that this should be done very prompt ly, In view of the lack of information concerning the numerical force of the enemy; consequently he had reduced the arsenal force to 100 men and re tained only his favorite troops of the guards and one company of the Fif teenth Infantry to protect the palace. Acting under hastily given tele phonic orders, the commanding offi cer at the cantonment barracks had detailed a few hundred ineu to flght a fear-guard action while the main army fell back In good order behind a rail way embankment which swept In a wide nrc around the city anjl offered an excellent substitute for breast works. This position had scarcely been attained before the furious ad vance of the rebels drove In the rear guard, and pending (he capture of the arsenal, Rlcardo realized his opera tions .were at an Impasse. Promptly he dug himself In, and the battle de veloped Into a brisk affair of give and take, involving meager losses to both factions, but an appalling wastage of ammunition. The arsenal, a large, modern con crete building with tremendously thick walls reinforced by steel, would have offered fairly good resistance to the average field battery. Surround ing It on all four sides was a rein forced concrete wall 30 feet high, with machine gun bastions at each corner and a platform along- the wall. Inside and 25 feet from thf. ground, which afforded foot room for Infantry which csuld use the Sop five ff*t of the wall for protection while firing over It. There was but one entrance, a heavy, barred steel gate which was always kept locked when It was not necessary to have It o|>eiied for In gress or egress. (liven warning of an attack and with sufficient time to pre pare for It, 100 of the right »ort of fighting men* could withstand an In definite siege by a force not provid ed with artillery heavier than an-or dinary field gun. With n full realiza tion of this, therefore, Rlcardo and his confreres had designed to accom plish by strategy that which could not be done by the limited forces at their command. As the column approached the neighborhood of the arsenal, three de tachments broke away from tlifr main body and disappeared down side street*, to turn at right angles later and march parallel with the main command. Each of these detachments was accompanied by one unit of the motorcycle mounted machine gun' bat tery with Its white crew; two blocks beyond the arsenal square each de tachment leader so disposed his men as to ofTer spirited resistance to any sortie that might be made by the troops from the palace In the hope ot driving off the attackers of the ar senal. Having thus provided for protection during its operations, the main body nominally under Dr. Pacbeco bnt In reality commanded by the chief of ti.e machine gun company, proceeded to nnerata. With th« utmost assurance In the world the truck rolled down the street to the arsenal en trance, swung In and pointed Its Im pudent noge straight at the iron ban while the hidden chauffeur called loudly and profanely In Spanish upon the sentry to open the gate and let him In —that there was necessity for great hurry, since he had been sent down from the palace by the presl clente himself, for machine guns to equip this armored motorcar. The sen try Immediately called the officer of the guard, who peered out, observed nothing but the motortruck, which seemed far front dangerous, and with out further ado Inserted a huge key In the lock and turned the bolt* The. sentry swung the double gates ajar, and with a prolonged and raucous toot of Its horn the big car loafed In. The sentry closed the gate ngaln, while the officer stepped up to turn the key In the lock. Instead, he died with half a dozen pistol bullets through his body, and the sentry sprawled beside him. The prolonged toot of the motor horn had been the signal agreed upon to apprise the detachment waiting in a secluded back tfreet that the tru"k was Inside the arsenal wall. With a yell they swept out of the side street Mid down on the gate, through which they poured luto the arsenal grounds. At souhd of the first shot at the gate, tbo commandant# of the garrison, wfclch .had been drawn up In a double rank .for reveille roll call, realized he was attack« and that swift measures were necessary. Fortu nately' for hlnff. his men were standing at attention nt the time, preparatory to receiving from him one of those ante-battle exhortations so dear to the [.atln soul. A sharp command, and the little gar rison had fixed bayonets ; another com mand, and they w«re In line of squ&dii; before the autotruck could be swung sldewuys to permit a machine gun to play on the Solftranteans In close formation, the latter had thrown out a skirmish line nnd were chnrglng; while from the guardhouse window, Just Inside the gate, a volley, poured Into thfc unprotected rear of the truck following Its passage through the gate, did deadly execution. The driver, a bullet through his back, sagged for ward Into his steel-clad citadel; both machine gun operators were wounded, and the truck was stalled. The Sit uation was desperate. "I'm a gone goose," mourned Don Juan Cafetero, and he leaped from the shambles to the ground, with some hazy notion of making his escape through the gate. He was too late. 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