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"Gone!" she gasped "Gone!" She struggled weakly toward Cueto, i hiht hi apprehensively at Cobo "We've acco, anyhow, eh?" He nodded at Rosa "She's all that I told you Look at her!"

Colonel Cobo took tiht froreed

"Yes! She's a pretty little spy--quite a prize, truly Now then!" His thick lips spread; he spoke to her ently "I want you to tell me about that brother of yours, eh? Cueto said I would find hihtened, I see Well, I have a o by and by" Then, seeing that hisin their search of the hut and were already quarreling over the scanty plunder which it afforded, he turned fro by his inattention, Rosa wriggled out of his grasp and ran to Evangelina, who lay face down in the dirt, her li herself upon the prostrate body and cried the black woman's name, but she could awaken no response

The first pink of daas now deepening in the east, and as soon as it had grown light enough to see to travel Colonel Cobo prepared to return to his horses The roof and walls of the bohio had fallen away to ashes, its skeleton of poles and its few pieces of crude furniture alone were save the word to go

"Coirl "Leave that carrion for the buzzards"

Rosa looked up to find hi: "Go away! In God's na with irl rose; her face was colorless; she was aquiver with indignation "Leave me!" she stormed "What have I done to you? Don't--"

"Carath, too, as I discovered Must I bind those pretty hands or--"

Colonel Cobo reached forth, laughing, and encircled her in his powerful arht at the first moment of desperation, but he lifted her easily and went striding across the field behind his ood time over the hills and into the San Juan, for Asensio knew the country well Mid-afternoon found theh; it was ready for the knife or for the torch Making a detour, the incendiaries approached it from the east in order to have the trade-winds at their backs They diss which they had carried on their saddles Inside these bags were several snakes, the largest perhaps eight feet in length To the tail of each the negroes fastened a leather thong, and then to each thong a length of telegraph-wire, the end of which had been bent into a loop to hold a bundle of oil-soaked waste These preliminaries accomplished, they bore the reptiles into the cane-fields at widely separated places and lighted the waste