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Lopez and his troop approached the town in the earlyAs they deployed for the attack the colonel issued private instructions to certain members of his corocery-store after another You will purchase that jam, those sardines, and whatever else you think Miss Evans would like Captain Judson, you and Major Rao to the apothecary-shop--I understand there is a very good one--and look for tooth-powder and candy and the like, I shall see that the streets are cleared, then I shall endeavor to discover soe, I doubt if there is such a thing this side of Habana"

Leslie Branch, whose teht ride, inquired, caustically: "Do you expect us to buy the groceries? Well, I'm broke, and so is O'Reilly"

"Have you no money?" asked the colonel, vastly surprised

"I haven't tipped my hat to a dollar since I quit newspaper work What'sfor e, Colonel, we'll have to open a charge account in your name"

"Carentlemen Well, never mind--we'll commandeer ish in the name of the Republic"

Lopez's attack proved a coarrison of the town The rebel bugle gave the first warning of as afoot, and before the Castilian troops ere loitering off duty could regain their quarters, before the citizens could take cover or the shopkeepers close and bar their heavy wooden shutters, two hundred ragged horse down the streets

There followed a typical Cuban engagee on the heels of the scurrying populace, a scattering pop-pop of rifles, cheers, cries, shrieks of defiance and far-flung insults directed at the fortinas

Bugles blew on the hilltops; the defenders are But since the Insurrectos were noell sheltered by the houses and only a portion of certain streets could be raked from the forts, the Spanish bullets did no harm Obedient to orders, a number of Lopez's ainst a sally, thus leaving the rest of the command free to raid the stores In the outskirts of the town Mausers spoke, the dust leaped, and leaden h the air

As locusts settle upon a standing crop, so did the army of liberators descend upon the shops of San Antonio de los Banos It was great fun, great excitement, while it lasted, for the toas distracted and its citizens had neither time nor inclination to resist Some of the shop-keepers, indeed, to prove their loyalty, openly welco tiuarded