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Into Rosa's life, however, there had come one interest which she could not share with her twin--that was her love for O'Reilly Spanish-reared women, as a rule, do not play with love; when it coh it be that first infatuation so often scorned by older, colder people So it ith Rosa Varona Whateverfor the Irish-Athened it into a enuine passion As the wise men of old found wisdom in cave or desert, so Rosa in her solitude had learned the truth about herself Now, in the hour of her extrehts of O'Reilly acted as a potentfor hi stimulated her desire to live, and so aided her recovery

The day arrived when her brain was normal and when she could creep about the hut But she was only the ghost of the girl she had been; she seldo out into the sunshine, and when she found tears upon her cheeks she was surprised, for it seeo have shed the very last

Asensio, likewise recovered, but he, too, was sadly changed There was no longer any martial spirit in him; he feared the Spaniards, and tales of their atrocities cowed him

Then Cobo cah deserted, was filled to the brih it the sun showed like a copper shield Refugees passed the bohio, bound farther into the hills, and Asensio told the toathered up what few things they could carry on their backs and fled

They did not stop until they had gained the fastnesses of the Pan de Matanzas Here they built a shelter and again took up the proble, which was now reatly inconvenienced by the change had he been alone, for certain fruits greild in the forests, and the earth, where the Spaniards had not trod, was full of roots upon which a creature of his pried to live But hampered as he was by tomen, one of as as delicate as a flower, Asensio found his task extrerew daily more difficult; for there were other people here in the woods, and,steadily scoured by the ene that was capable of sustaining human life Stock was butchered and left to rot, trees were cut down, root- fields burned Weyler's policy of frightfulness was in full sway, and starvation was driving its reluctant victiuerrillas searched out and killed the stronger and the more tenacious families