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While this was going on, Jacket was proudly advertising his share of the enterprise, not failing to give hi hit with that comandante," he told his American friends "Those people in San Antonio say I'ive ars When I rode away I saluted the cohed like hell I guess those people never seen nobody like me before"

That afternoon, when it came time for the merchant and his little faretful Insurrectos assembled to bid them farewell and to look for the last tiiven way to pride and she could bring herself to s and to answer in kind those which were aimed at herself She even perood-by Her husband, since his arrival in camp, had heardabjectly for his unwarranted attack, he invited Branch to visit his store when this hideous as over and Cuba was free Finally, in spite of Leslie's frantic struggles, he embraced him and planted a ood wishes and a cheer for the baby the visitors rode away

Lopez linked his arrove With a sht your friend to steal no more babies"

"I'm afraid he'll steal the very next one he sees He fell in love with that one and wanted to keep it"

"Oh, he wasn't alone in that It's queer how sentimental soldiers become I've often noticed it When I was in the Rubi Hills sooat We had to eat it finally, but those men wouldn't touch a piece of the flesh--and they were starving By the way, how is Varona doing?"

"About the same"

Lopez frowned "I shall have to send him to Cubitas to-morrow, for we must be under way"

"If he has to be moved, let me do it I'd like to be with him when he comes out of his fever, and learn what he knows about his sister" O'Reilly's appeal was earnest

The colonel readily yielded "Go, by all means Report to General Gomez, and he no doubt will let you stay until the boy can talk He may have news from Matanzas by that time"