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MR. Samuel McKInley, 1215
Grand Ave., Kansas City,
Mo., writes: "I can honestly say
that I owe my life to Peruna.
Traveling from town to town,
and having to go into all kinds
of badly heated buildings, ply
ing my trade as auctioneer. It is
only natural that I had colds fre
quently. "Last December I contracted a
severe cold which, through neg
lect on my part, settled on my
chest. I heard of Peruna. It
cured me, so I cannot praise it
too highly."
Those who prefer tablets to
liquid medicines can now procure
Peruna in tablet form.
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SYNOPSIS,
Lieutenant Holton is detached from his
tommand In the navy at the outRet of the
Bpanlsh-Anierlcan war and assigned to
Important secret service duly. While din
Inn at a Washington lintel he detects a
waiter In the act of robbing a beautiful
'ouiin lady. She thanks him for his serv
ce and Klves her name as Miss La Tossa.
a Cuban patriot. Later he meets her at
a ball. A secret service man warns Hol
ton that the Rlrl Is a spy. Senor La
Tossa chides his daughter for her failure
to secure Important Information from
Holton. She leaves for her home In
Cuba, Holton is ordered to- follow her.
They meet on the Tampa train. Miss
La Tossa tells Holton she Is a Cuban
spy and expresses doubt regarding the
sincerity of the United States. Holton Is
ordered to remain In Tampa to guard the
troop transports.
CHAPTER V. Continued.
The page fled, and Holton, with a
short laugb, strolled over to the
clerk's desk.
"Who Is this man Rodriguez who
sends peremptory messages to guests
of the hotel?" he Inquired.
"A curious duffer," was the reply.
"Rich as get out, and very exclusive.
He very seldom comes,out of his room.
Did he send for you?"
"Yes, he did me the honor. By the
way, I wish you'd have my Junk taken
from my room and put abroad the
Gnat; will you?"
"Certainly, sir." Having given the
order, Holton paid his .bill, and was
about to go down to his boat when a
negro tapped him on the arm.
Holton turned suddenly, his nose al
most colliding with a note which the
man held out almost at arm's length.
"This for me?" he asked.
"Ya-as. suh."
Holton took it, broke open the enve
lope and glanced hastily over the
contents. - Then, with a frown, he
turned to a boy.
"Say, youngster," he commanded,
"take me right up to Mr. Rodriguez's
room, will you?"
On reaching the third floor, the boy
led the way down the hall, stopping
before a door at the end of the corri
dor.
"Here it Is, sir."
"AH right." Holton gave the lad a
coin and rattled his knuckles against
the panel.
The door was opened by an intelli
gent-appearing Cuban, who conducted
the caller into a luxuriously furnished
reception-room and asked him to sit
down. - Soon a door opened and a tall,
sallow man, handsome In a languid
Latin way, confronted him.
"Ah, Senor Holton. You honor me,"
he murmured.
"Then you are Mr. Rodriguez?1
asked Holton abruptly. ,
"Yes, yes," responded the man, who
A Negro Tapped Him on the Arm.
was clad in a well-made suit of crash
with a crimson sash about his waist.
"I repeat, I am flattered at your vlBit."
"I am glad of that," Holton re
joined stiffly; "but I come in response
to a note stating that matters of in
terest to a Miss La Tossa were press
ing. Will you do mo the kindness to
enlighten me as to the manner in
which my acquaintance with Miss La
Tossa interests you?"
The Spaniard bowed. "You are di
rect, like all Americans," he said,
"Well; be it so."
He took from a table a bottle of
yery rare Abuelo Oloroso, and poured
I a
little in a glass. He pushed
it
toward Holton.
"I drink," he said, smilingly bril
liantly, "to Miss La Tossa, and may
she have a most comfortable trip on
the Gnat."
Holton left his glass poised.
"What on earth are you talking
about!" he cried.
"Miss La ToBsa, as you know," the
Spaniard said, "Is in Tampa."
Yes, I know that," said Holton.
"She came down on my train."
"It is not good for her to be here."
"The climate?" queried Holton, dis
ingenuously.'
No, not the climate," was the re
ply, so sharp and so spirited, so much
in contrast to Rodriguez's previous
manner, of speech that the naval offi
cer started. "Not the climate. She
is engaged in activities here that your
government . regards as most perni
cious." Yes, and your own government?"
came back Holton.
My government," Rodriguez smiled
genially, "happens to be your govern
ment."
So saying, he handed Holton a pa
per which, as the officer read it, con
vinced him beyond question or cavil
that Senor Rodriguez was none other
than an attache of the United States
State Department, whose name was
anathema to every Spaniard or loyal
Cuban.
He was. In sooth, none other than
Ramon del Rey, a spy, with headquar
ters in Washington, who, although a
naturalized American, had done more
effective, if trnobtrustve, work for
Cuba Libre than most other Cuban
patriots rolled Into one.
Holton rose and, with a smile of
genuine pleasure, thrust out his hand.
"I have heard of you," he said; 'Uind
I'm glad to know you."
"Tbank you. I, too, have heard of
you. But to business. Miss La Tossa
must not stay here, and yet her re
moval must be brought about quietly,
for various reasons. It is best that
Miss La Tossa be transported at once
to Cuba on the Gnat, very quietly and
unostentatiously, where agents of mine
will meet her and conduct her to her
estate in the province of Santiago.
Once there, I promise you she'll not
leave In .a hurry. Your orders will
come to you from Washington within a
very few hours. In the meantime I
suggest you have everything ready
"I see and Miss La Tossa?" ,
"Miss La Tossa will be escorted
aboard the Gnat at seven o'clock pre'
clsely, and now I bid you good day
and thank you."
"Thank you," and Holton left, won-
derlng if the man realized all he was
thanking him for.
He lost no time In making his way
to - the Gnat, where he astonished
Conroy and Howard by summoning
them to the cabin.
"Is there any way;" he said, "In
which this room can be made more
comfortable for a young lady?"
Neither of the two men spoke, re
garding Holton with open-mouthed as
tonishment. "It's this way," smiled Holton, "the
Gnat's been ordered to take a 'young
Cuban woman over to Cuba, and and
I want her to be comfortable."
The faces of the two men radiated
curiosity, but Holton said nothing fur
ther to enlighten them.
Promptly at seven o'clock that
evening a closed carriage drove rap
idly down the long wharf and stopped
abreast the gangway leading to the
Gnat. The door was flung open, and
del Rey and an American, their arms
linked through those of Miss La Tossa,
descended and without a word walked
down the plank and aboard the tor
pedo boat.
Holton met them by the conning
tower and lifted his cap.
"How do you do. Miss La Tossa?
he said, smiling in greeting.
She flashed a vague look at him, and
lowered her eyes without speaking,
Del Rey bowed in a courtly man
ner to the girl. "I trust you will have
a pleasant voyage, and I beg to apol
ogize for my seeming rudeness."
The captive deigned no reply, and
turned her back as the two men re
traced their steps up the gangway.
A few minutes later the diminutive
warship was churning her way out
through the bay.
Holton turned to the girl, who stood
disconsolately, viewing the receding
shore.
"I am sorry. Miss La Tossa, but you
will recognize, of course, that I am
doing nothing but obeying orders,
which are to see that you are very
comfortable and agreeably enter
tained until you reach Cuba."
She evidently had determined not
to talk to her captor, but changed her
mind with womanlike suddenness.
'I shall thank you if I 'am com
fortable, but I shall thank you still
more if you give over any idea of
entertaining me. You may be sure
that the less I see of you the better I
shall be pleased."
'If you will follow me. Miss La
Tossa," he said, with sudden stiffen
ing of manner, "I'll show you your
cabin."
The dark came rolling across the
eea. It was a wonderful night, a night
spangled with constellations and undu
lating black velvet waters, which
picked up the little torpedo craft, hold
ing her high and then sending her
gliding silently down long Inclines, at
the bottom of which she seemed to
nestle a moment before her screw
kicked her up another quivering hill.
Some time later the lights of a craft
which had been following astern of the
Gnat began to creep closer and closer
aboard, and dark clouds of smoke, bil
lowing from three squat funnels, blot
ted out the northeastern horizon.
Holton saw the vessel, too, and eas
ily recognized her as a torpedo boat
destroyer. His only doubt was as to
her nationality.
This was speedily settled, for sud
denly Ardois lights began to blink
from the bridge, Interpreting which
Holton learned that the destroyer
Balnbrldge wished to speak to the
Gnat.
In a few minutes the Bainbridge
swished up and the sharp voice of
Lieutenant-Commander Jameson sound
ed from the bridge.
"On board the Gnat!"
"Aye, Aye!" yelled Horton.
There followed a silence which last
ed until the destroyer slid her high,
sharp bow and" conical forward deck
alongside the little torpedo boat,
Jameson Jumped aboard and after re
turning Holton's salute he said for
mally: '"I have orders to take a Miss La
Tossa from the Gnat and land her
at well, never mind where."
"Very good, sir. Any orders for
meT"
"Yes, here they are." Jameson took
an envelope from bis overcoat-pocket
and handed it to Holton. "Now, then,
I'll take the girl."
But the girl, in fact, did not. wait
to be taken. She stepped forward
most gracefully, and addressing Jame
son, said:.
t "I am ready; I am quite happy at
my change of prisons and my shift of
jailers."
"Ha, ha!" "laughed the prosaic
Jameson, nudging Holton in the ribs,
and offering his arm to the girl who
walked up a small ladder to the deck
of the. destroyer without so much as
a glance at Holton.
With a blast of her siren the Bain
bridge shot on her way to Cuba, while
the Gnat made a long sweep and
turned upon her course.
While this maneuver was in prog1
ress Holton, still flushing with vexa
tion, ripped open the envelope and
read the latest phase of what he had
come to regard as a game of battle
dore and shuttlecock.
Shorn of technical verbiage, the or
ders which were signed by the new
assistant secretary, Allen, instructed
Holton to lose himself and the Gnat
among the small Isolated keys of the
coast until such time as the transports
were gathered at Port Tampa, when
he was then to guard them from night
attacks which might come sneaking
in under cover of the darkness from
seaward.
CHAPTER VI.
Action Indeed.
Holton's orders were to keep himself
and the Gnat hidden, and this he did
so effectually that to all Intents and
purposes he might just as well have
gone down with his little craft and
crew in Nicholas Channel.
At length, when he had begun to
think he was immured for life In this
blazing little byway, camu the welcome
orders to proceed to Port Tampa,
there to carry out instructions already
In his possession, namely, the protec
tion of transports from attack by wa
ter. With light hearts the three men
got their craft under way, ran up th
bay, and In good time drew in undet
the counter of a steamship, lying near
the end of the long slip.
It was as though a magician's wand
had been waved over the port. Along
the slip lay transport after transport,
nearly a score of them, the black
smoke of others draping the horizon
In long, grimy clouds. Freight trains
were rumbling up and down the tracks,
and officers of various departments of
the army, their shirts open at the
throat, dusty, sweaty, hot, hurried
everywhere.
"It surely looks like business," chuc
kled Holton as he slipped on his uni
form coat over a marine's drab shirt
and prepared to visit the hotel.
Life at the hotel was made mora
brilliant by the arrival of Shatter and
his staff, but Holton, who had had all
the' brilliancy and inactivity he want
ed, found himself praying fervently for
orders that would send him out as
officer on one of the vessels of Ad
miral Sampson's North Atlantic
Squadron. But no such orders came,
and Holton had Just about attuned his
mind to a weary grind to last at least
several months longer, when some
thing occurred to change very materi
ally the attitude of the government in
regard to the movement of the troops
as Tampa.
In short. Admiral Sampson cabled
that after a mysterious voyage across
the Atlantic' ocean and Caribbean sea,
Admiral Cervera and his squadron
of battleships and cruisers were bot
tled up in Santiago. He could not at
tack them because of the forts and
mines, and he requested that troopc
be sent at once to co-operate with the
navy from the land side.
It was then that the Secretary of
War wired General Shatter to proceed
forthwith to Cuba.
Flat-cars laden with General Ran
dolpb's artillery, rumbled down the
slip, and the guns were hoisted into
yawning ports in the sides of the trans
ports; provisions, supplies of all sorts
bore them company, and no one doubt
ed any longer that at last the army
had received Its bid to the field of bat
tie.
A new strain was put upon Holton,
for now. If at any time, attempts at the
destruction of the transports would be
made, there being no secrecy what
ever as to the intentions of the United
States government. Then arrived the
day when the boys in blue came In
from Lakeland, and, with cheers and
shouts, marched aboard the long line
"I Am Quite Happy at My Change ot
Prisons."
of transports, from whose funnels
clouds of smoke were belching.
Holton's crew had been augmented
by four extra seamen, sent to htm from
Key West, and .each night they stood
guard with him on various parts of the
deck, rifles in their hands and navy
Colts strapped about their waists.
Toward midnight most of the noise,
the shouting of orders, the rattling of
tackle, the tramp of feet, died away.
Holton gave Conroy the wheel, and
walked along the deck, speaking to
each of the men as he passed.
"Keep a sharp lookout. Challenge
anything that looks suspicious, and
shoot without hesitation if there's no
reply."
(TO BE CONT1NUKCO
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Site of Minnesota City Will Be Moved
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score of big properties Including -the
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world is not less than one billion
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The property was acquired subject to
mineral rights (says the World's
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steam shovels from one to five miles
In three directions and converging at
the city limits, show that the city's
10,000 inhabitants dwell on ' a great
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holders express a desire to be liberal
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