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During breakfast, and afterward throughout an ai stroll, O'Reilly felt watchful eyes upon him When he returned to his hotel he found Mr Carbajal in the cafe concocting refrescos for some military officers, who scanned the Alances O'Reilly complained to the proprietor of a toothache

At once Mr Carbajal was sy the affliction upon that bath of the previous evening Excessive bathing, he declared, was injurious, particularly in the winter season; it opened one's pores, and it dried one's skin and rendered one liable to the attacks of every disease Heat? Perspiration? Was it wise to resort to unnatural and artificialannoyance? If perspiration were injurious, nature would not have provided it In fact, it was nature'sthe body clean, and if people were unreasonably fastidious about such things a little cologne would render thereeable to the senses than any nune This habit of bathing at fixed intervals of a week or two, regardless of conditions, ht be, and probably was, responsible for all of O'Reilly's rheumatis He had never suffered an ache or a pain in his life and his teeth were perfectly sound, as he de-spoon

O'Reilly was ied, but unfortunately it did not re the hottest part of the day, when he knew the toould be asleep, he reappeared in the cafe, his cheek in his hand He declared that so had to be done, at once, and inquired the name and address of the best local dentist

Mr Carbajal nauest hurried away, followed at a respectful distance by the secret agent

Finding Doctor Alvarado's office was closed, as he had anticipated, O'Reilly proceeded to the doctor's residence There was so the bell, but eventually the dentist hinized hilish

"I coan "He well re to the Ten Years' War"

The languor of Doctor Alvarado's siesta vanished He started, his eyes widened

"Who are you?" he muttered

"My name is O'Reilly I am an American, a friend, so don't be alar me, but he thinks I have come to you with a toothache"