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There was a considerable silence Then Lopez went on in another key

"We Cubans carry heavy hearts, but our wrongs have s have h; but, believefarther west--whole provincesThe world has never seen anything like Weyler's slaughter of the innocents If there is indeed a God--and sometimes I doubt it--he will not permit this horror to continue; fro up, until we drive that archfiend and his armies into the sea Go back to your own country now, and if your grief has made you one of us in sympathy, tell the world what that black butcher in Havana is doing, and beg your Governerency, so that we may have arms ARMS!"

It was some tioing back I a to stay here and look for Rosa"

"So!" exclai as we do not know precisely what has happened to her, we can at least hope But, if I were you, I would rather think of her as dead than as a prisoner in some concentration camp You don't knohat those camps are like, my friend, but I do Now I shall leave you One needs to be alone at such an hour--eh?" With a pressure of his hand, Colonel Lopez walked away into the darkness

Judson and his adventurous countryht, nor, in fact, did any one But the next ard, sick, listless The old Porto-Rican had heard from Lopez in the mean time; he was sympathetic

"I am sorry you came all the way to hear such bad news," he said "War is a sad, hopeless business"

"But I haven't given up hope," O'Reilly said "I want to stay here and--and fight"

"I inferred as eneral nodded his white head "Well, you'll lad to have you" He extended his hand, and O'Reilly took it gratefully

The city of Matanzas was "pacified" So ran the boastful bando of the captain-general And this was no exaggeration, as any one could see froars there Of all his military operations, this "pacification" of the western towns and provinces was the ave Valeriano Weyler the keenest satisfaction; for nowhere did rebellion lift its head--except, perhaps, a the ranks of those disaffectedabove thee, it was cured of treason; it no longer resisted, even weakly, the law of Spain The reason was that it lay dying Weyler's cure was simple, efficacious--it consisted of extermination, swift and pitiless