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"Tell me! Which one?" he whispered

"Both!"

O'Reilly recoiled; a spasan to shake weakly, and his fingers plucked aimlessly at each other

Lopez took him by the arm "Try to control yourself," said he "Sit here while I try to tell you what little I know Or, would it not be better to wait awhile, until you are cal ony of suspense, he sighed: "Very well, then, as you wish But you must be a man, like the rest of us I, too, have suffered My father"-- Lopez's h-- "died in the Laurel Ditch at Cabanas On the very day after my first victory they shot his that we Cubans fight while we starve--that we shall continue to fight until no Spaniard is left upon this island We have all faced so now--our parents ed "

O'Reilly, huddled where he had sunk upon the bench, uttered a gasping, inarticulate cry, and covered his face as if from a lash

"I will tell you all I knohich isn't much Esteban Varona came to me soon after he and his sister had fled from their home; he wanted to join my forces, but ere harassed on every side, and I didn't dare take the girl--no woman could have endured the hardships we suffered So I convinced him that his first duty was to her, rather than to his country, and he agreed He was a fine boy! He had spirit He bought some stolen rifles and armed a band of his ohich wasn't a bad idea I used to hear about him Nobody cared to molest hiular troops Then of course they went after hied to destroy his own plantations, which Cueto had robbed him of You knew Cueto?"

"Yes"

"Well, Esteban put an end to hiht, broke in the door, and macheted the scoundrel in his bed But there was a mistake of some sort It seems that a body of Cobo's Volunteers were somewhere close by, and the two parties met I have never learned all the details of the affair, and the stories of that fight which came to me are too preposterous for belief Still, Esteban and his ht like demons, for they killed some incredible nuiment It seems that only one or two of them escaped"