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"Be quiet," he told the boy "I won't let you go with me, and that ends it"

"You dassent leave ot no friend but you"

"It will be hard enough for one h; tould be sure to fail"

"Those Spaniards will skill you!" Jacket wailed

"So much the more reason for you to stay here"

At this the boy uttered a louder cry He stamped his bare feet in a frenzy of disappointment "You dassent leavein Matanzas; they are sick; they are dying in the streets"

"I don't eat much"

When Johnnie shook his head stubbornly Jacket launched himself into a torrent of profanity the violence of which dried his tears His vocabulary was surprising He reviled the Spaniards, O'Reilly, hi; he leveled anathemas at that woman who had come between hiood-naturedly

"You're a tough kid," he laughed, when Jacket's first rage had worn itself out "I like you, and I'd take you if I could But this isn't an enterprise for a boy, and it won't get you anything to keep up this racket"

Jacket next tried the power of argu of this sort his assistance would be invaluable He was, so he declared, the one person in all Cuba in every respect qualified to share O'Reilly's perils To begin with, he was not afraid of Spaniards, or anything else, for that e with a conteacity, prudence, resource, all-around worth, he ithout doubt, unequaled in any country He was a veritable Spartan, too, when it ca were al he had inherited; he was a diplo one of his er, O'Reilly need not concern himself in the least on that score, for Jacket was a srow fat on a diet of dead leaves Disease? Bah! It h His experience with sickness ider than most fisicos, and he was a better nurse than Miss Evans would ever be Jacket did not wish to appear in the least boastful On the contrary, he was actually too modest, as his friends could attest, but truth compelled him to admit that he was just the man for O'Reilly He found it ihly; to save his soul, he could think of no qualification in which he was lacking and could see no reason why his benefactor would not greatly profit by the free use of his a talents The enterprise was difficult; it would certainly fail without him