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"This settles it withdown there"

Alvarado stared at her for a ue withabout it for some time, and--"

"It is quite ireed

"Of course you could go to Havana," said the latter, "but you wouldn't be allowed to see anything"

"I'ht to the Insurrectos with you"

"WITH ME!" O'Reilly could not conceal his lack of enthusiasm "I don't know that the Junta will take me"

"They will if I ask them"

Alvarado inquired, "What ever put such a ridiculous idea into your head?"

The girl laughed "It's the only kind of ideas I have But there are ten thousand reasons why I want to go In the first place, I fairly itch to give pills You say the rebels have no hospitals, no nurses--"

"We do the best we can, with our equipment"

"Well, I'll supply better equipment, and I'll handle it myself I'm in earnest You sha'n't stop me"

O'Reilly was uncomfortably aware of the speaker's determination; protests had no effect upon her; her clear cheeks had flushed, her eyes were dancing Evidently here was a girl who did very ," he told her, gravely "You'd have to go as a filibuster, on souards and croiththe Spanish blockade If captured you would be treated just like the rest of us"

"Lovely! We'd land in sht!"

"And if you got through, what then? Life in a bark hut, with nothing to eat Bugs! Snakes! Hardships!"

"That decides me I eat too much--Doctor Alvarado tells me I do I adore huts, and I don't seriously object to insects"

The physician stirred uneasily "It's utterly absurd," he expostulated "Soht do it, but you're not the sort You are--pardon h men"

"Mr O'Reilly will look out for me But for thatto discourage me I always have my oay; I'm completely spoiled"

"Your family will never consent," O'Reilly ventured; whereupon Miss Evans laughed

"I haven't such a thing I'irl was ever so fortunate But wait--I'll settle this whole thing in a minute" She quitted the table, ran to Alvarado's telephone, and called a number