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"What do you want?"

"I want your help in joining the Insurrectos"

By this ti an effort at self-possession, the dentist said: "Very well I will meet you at my office in a half-hour and see what can be done" Then he bowed

O'Reilly raised his hat and turned away

Doctor Alvarado's dentist's chair faced a full-length , one of several which, after the Cuban fashion, opened directly upon the sidewalk, rendering both the waiting-room and the office almost as public as the street itself Every one of these as wide open when Johnnie arrived; but it seemed that the dentist knehat he was about, for when his patient had taken his seat and he had begun an examination of the troublesome tooth, he said, under his breath: "I, too, alish When I press, thus, upon your gu Now then, what is the e from Felipe?"

While Doctor Alvarado pretended to treat a perfectly sound ed, despite frequent interruptions, to make known the reason and circumstances of his presence

"But there are no rebels around here," Alvarado told him "You could escape to the country, perhaps, but what then? Where would you go? Hoould they knoho you are?"

"That's what I want to find out"

The Cuban pondered "You'll have to go to Puerto Principe," he said, at length "Our nacio will kno to reach thee to hiht ht of the very thing Years ago I lent him a book which I particularly prized, and one of his children daed it I was furious I declared I would never lend hiive you that very volume; hand it to him and say that I asked you to return it to him I'd like to see his face when he receives it"

O'Reilly thanked hie The very care necessary in co between brother and brotherene he paid Carbajal's score and took the train to the interior In his bag was Tomas Alvarado's precious volume, and in the same coach with him rode the Secret Service man