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BOOT 000000000000000 y NEW YORKERS too bad—that’e a style of bill that wae was a cautious man—for which reason then, #0 abruptly that they seemed @ lot mere just sow, Zarapa,” Mr, t coast; even now his execrable kitchen never even issued.” he still lives happily, far from h itched headlong over @ gre] Pollard said aa 7 reeks with sleeping potions; even now, And there, for the moment, he lost There is no fi rattur 8 Way, they were on level on again euch ering "hone wate tx see ‘1 say, the ewittent automobite ta Ai Mmeelf completely and shook both senore, tothe cellarn nn” AY" Shey ere on ee rafter another life fore bie et Santa Chansa will"— fists in Robert Pollard’s rigid counte- Hinges creaked, The brief flicker Space the demon chauffeur became stopped violently as if an in- Without—and to the best of their He of a match in the first assistant’s aware that some one was shaking hie visible | pg tne had been dropped um t asimes the temporary nance. % “That ain't money!" Captain Velvet hand showed @ panel of the wall shoulder and that Zarapa'e voice before for men willing to “abe net, “y tefuses, pot judgment, not further away than the ed, fut “That open-mouthed he stared Yo be asamsinated, Ni three New wcreamed, furtously. t's Just lying flat upon the floor, with a yard- screamed faintly: at Zara: ¢ : Pera wig gy fea opponlte side st ue varie ees trash the Janitor forgot to throw out. equare opening and an excellent fant tt 18 to patio! It ta to pause weWhat. aia "See Gay Ghent thas . ip revenge he kidnapped and brought convenient mob ei 01 so an tadeaaeeniia. of stairs beyond, eenor 'e are safe!” Wr inte Gata newcaie ha mt, ted Rates voice again. CHAPTER X. The Cabinet fumbled through dissily The Bnake paused, listened a mo- “By three turns, senor, one gives Sot inet fe Saas 6 Distattiy come one Beeld 6 ‘he Wheel of F. and the panel swung into place be- ment to the squeak of his engine, and to Relampago, or takes away, the life ofthe ‘warsh elampae aay, 4 The Wheel of Fate. hind them; ft ie cco or Relamyn€, strange Spanish phrase; @ thousand em; while, little below, cut it off, which comes with pure water from ves them rms, giving then high voices took It up and howled as well FILM, atckening, semi. Zarapa called serenoly: “Ite time to—pause, anyway, till the towering mountains! By that Brat a, Rec ary Farce. "Net wane inn the tramp, ene ents opaque, dropped before , “We shall join hands? It ts in this wo got somo oil,” he sald, vaguely. wheel"—— oa Mioarite Ti itinen deuce ls nearer, Robert Pollard's eyes, His doonas, one finds the engine room And hia breathless voice rang out “It ts actually the only supply of currency ih the national treasury and (isn “Curse Velvet and his stuff!” the apne’ ginen eserted. And here, senors, the en- like a shout, and the Snake looked drinking water they can get?” CR i re et eee, "t Minister of State panted. “Wh ze turned glassy. §ine-room, and hore the stair to the around the blackness in amazement. “So much #0 that eight millions of feet Saat, ares fuse Re tke about this? Did novatare ie?” “Isn't—money?” ho choked. back street. From sea-level turmoil they seemed dollars had to be spent on that reser- New yore, “Hoe? But no!” Zarapa laughed, “We had fifteen million dollars’ He tripped on bilthely through tm- to have reached the infinite atilineas Yolr, senor. It 1s a wonderful work, is, senor, worth of that stuff made up by an Denetrable gloom and they atumbled of the top of the world. It was not and when Santa Chanza spende for _ with @ hideous quaver. CHAPTER VIII. which comes, ls the army!" engraver down here years ago, and aus ikaasiae cane incoher- mnarely aulet, up bon ja bisbate! exieres bay Edged Lag Ke Sold Be) 4 y! a an absence ot ind #0 complete ere the cynicism of the first The Bitter Truth. the fittle man he made just sixteen mistakes tn the Once upon a time, long ago, they (William Ryan's heavy respiration assistant was stilled, for his chief plate, Wo rejected it, and I supposed bad been peace-loving confidence echoed as the snorting of a bull. had gone stark, staring mad! Bulg- ROADLY speaking, the mo- went on quickly. ‘I have heard enough; I came to warn you—too tuff had been burned up 7M, plain, staid criminala who slept To the right, in the gloom, landap- ing, maniac eyes glitte mentary Cabinet of Santa fate, parhxoe: ‘The whole army has pong lrag wait’ P in Bods, ate ordinary meals, looked peared to slope gently upward: to the Pollard’a head; he Graved trantionny Chansa were a well-man- risen—ten thousand men. Agitatora = . Pt toh Mfectionately upon the familiar left it dropped away sharply, and, to the Snake as he screamed: . + see ak of Sanchez have stirred the officers Mr. Ryan looked what he felt, which sights of New York, and asked noth- having noted ao much, the Minister “Come on! Quick! Weve got th nered trio; yet at the mo- 1) fury, goaded the men to despera- was cold-blooded, violent murder. ing more than to rematn unmolested, of Finance harkened to the Firat A- goods at Inst a ment each of the three lost tion, Sanchez himself has promised ‘Say? If this room wasn't packed low they had met Capt. Velvet, sistant Minister of State: * and the whole world had become a T with your friends—" he began. nightmare; th : it is also to pause here until day, CHAPTE! “Just @ minute!” said the President tonishing in this Ha olonae tao senor! You have left town by the R XI. memory of the good Captain's prea- them full pay'’— is ence in thoughts of his own. ‘The Minister of War came to the front suddenly, 80 roughly upset 4 : | & whistling little sigh escaped Mr. py "the sinister noises In the night pro tom, and turned to the xathering. @ dusty. South American cellar, It Goes feed coe oe rey wre aie Ge Plot and Proclamation, Evans. His lips were working ner- that he ene into the duties of “nue Ma saan phd ren ores to Mr, Pollard’s whirling js a dangerous road at night, and we ARAPA!" hailed Pollard ‘ his exalted office, - brain. dbhhenl hy weed betienne a z eis he Cabs “Wat's this about @he army getting mande: removing Si na hie poke bits When they reached the top of this Tile Weake instinctively cut out his “senor!” bd adie paid?” he demanded indignantly. and issued an order; an ene Gn echoing tron flight Zarapa’s voice iights and stared backward through “Is there just one engi- net meeting?” he suggested. “ain't I paying ‘em enough now?" tee turned et ane Gast ne sine came back very sanoly: the ink of a cloudy night. neer in there?” “Better have a bite to eat first,” “Senor,” sald Zarapa, and looked door behind them, as Cap’ ‘elve' It will be well to walk as men — far off and far, far below lines of turned back to his Minister of War who aro without cate—to mingle with “Just one, senor.” passion at William Ryan the Captain said kindly. “These here genuine c arc lamps showed as almost tmper- o from his wicked little eyes, “you have with: - the crowd, if need be, and cheer ceptible white : as Relam. “Telephone?” ™ "ve tol entino to brin| ears 5 r n B clo should stand tho pollard i ¢ we! pring #1 years!” Gone they eoinh ana eat the Minister of War. "And #0 long as swift automobiin which my ono trusts /itrd. Who apoke faintly: der Salvato, senor. A reform party @ Kittle snack, and—here he Is, ‘Why don't they come and tal *d like to have your company where ed friend, Pedro I Zarapa, is it safe up here demanded (hat \tb eho The chief of eccret police entered over quietly, then?” their ostensible ee Pa friend, Pedro Pertera, was to have “Ay in your own America, senor. semand Hi © removed, since head asked wildly. 7 “Walt, Billt” commanded the Min- Tia opened a door and peered ont Not, twenty men tn all Relampago pa, the engineer, was too lazy te breathlessly and rather strangely, too, “any at that point sheer fright for he had acquired a sweeping MUS- hushed him and caused the cabinet taché, a long goatee and @ hat several to draw close together, rag eer! the aires his exit. very walls of the palacto had risen a He tats beesebia, and he laid them Toar that would have made the howl- ing of a wolf-pack seom musical, @n the Presidential desk wit! ‘A moment or two, and It dropped “It is, I think, safe, In the dis- away, and one voles spoke—a loud, Bulse I have not been recognized.’ rough vouge thet Bad tte to say, and said tt In few words, Rear tccnea cron’ ci ale ‘There was a pause as the owner of NEV any SAS Wholly unintelligible Hpanish in his fhe voice conclitens ne for: several ‘ate said, “and we're woing to do Day and he laughed gently: wero protty wrathy before, but ‘The Snake, with a hound, had : Robby?" i Othe ch tering, and after that for several it. And if it comes down to that, | “Velvet's put ¢ome Big ones over. they're plumb cragy now." |) passed him, and was sweeping the | Golng to Ket out, Robby tne “Come along.” The chief of secret police glanced frightful seconds, complete silence thank Heaven we can do it!” but he never came within a mile of His sinile oozed plain, pol pole dark byway with a fevered ayer ana olng to stretch out on ™ Pets aae tie Gos dor 0d tae am wertly at the cabinet and replied that seemed even more ominous. He broke off at the sound of the ap- this!" ogy and a total lack of concern. 8 yelp of joy escaped the Snake, and Sound till somebody prods me up @von more cryptically, removing bia | Voices, for the time, left the dread~ .cching darapa Ho winked at the Minister of War — “Y’ see, Robby,” he explained, “this he dashed at tho black, lightlo«s shape With a sword or blows my head off!” Rouse, with Zarapa at his heels, and eee nis nontna twitch of one hand ful night; the sound of feot took thelr “It is, as you ea the finish, senor! 424 then ceased smiling. army's been put off with promises by the curb, with the Ministers of @ald their chief, “I'm done!” opened It suddenly. He peered about and his goatee with a twitoh of the place. It was’ in any hope that they could “Well, what the devil's wrong for a long time. As near as I can State and War not two yarda behind, Scienco has found no revivifier to the shadowy office within and sniffed other, and waving both in an inex- Some shuffled; some walked rest- 1005 the voice of reason, but this iy NOW?” figure, they'd have stood promisns There was a atecring wheal’ nnd equal tho open-air aloep at an altitude. — ang then he erossed te 4 nitfed | pre perdi ia ble eaaetn legals from the Main entTANC OF Oe a ee Ot Ue tae cE. was only wondering, Robby, for another six months, anyway till the Snake's expert hand dabbed at it , Robert Pollard, rousing, discovered Gene then Ke, eronse per He concluded with a violent shrug; palacio came the sharp click, eltck of jot se. tn tne atmy are, alt told, t6o wnat hayyened to the cheers?” Mr. wo'd had time to raise some cash and for an instant. There was a crank, that not only had sleep claimed him eyo! rough which and the captain barked @ sharp half geveral pairs of heols, ascending with (inirey, AAe MALY companies | aL Ryan edly. Figg ‘em enough to worry along of. na "tha Shaka twiried it-and thes and cartiod him atruight through the floated strange cooking odors and « dozen words end watched Bentino military — precision; and @P® Gemands’ four ‘thousand dollars! It ,WWhath “But thia thing of trying to hund phrieked maninc Joy, for an engine Aight. but the mun. waa cllmbIDg thick, unt gto back out before he said heartily brightened slightly is—n—million—dollars that they ask!” , “The first three t went out of ‘em bad bills in that are rye Ms hummed loudly at the first turn! swiftly into a new, brilliant day. some sort. “Here it is—crackers and cheese “strange!” he muttered. “But they rreathed the first. assistant and ere started a riot!” muttered the I dunno, Hobby i” repeated the And then, since opening the itttle Tho Minister of Finance, too, atiit “ae. eee cessed abruptly. Rosld and some nice Jam, too. Yes, and he pave not yet fired the palacio! It eee le ward the chief, minister of war. “They weren't out- tain, and yawned. door In front would have consumed slumbered placidly with his heel® ine capacioua oll stove, with itm ane fot some tuinales, 1 see, and"—— wan that tiey proposed, senors, when “Red limply toward the chief. side before the rest started cheering Outdoors not less than four indl- tno fraction of a precious second, the sprawled comfortably over the dash- re i He beamed approval at them ae I heard-—that and the shooting of Ue ‘our thousand ¢ ‘@ a company, and howling; after that they put the vidual voices were addressing th@ gnake cleared it with a flying p board; and no insomnia had troubled cores pot ore tet cree watched them walk, calmly enough, gelyes as you jumped from the win- tering frying : 7 soft pedal on the cheers, and this last multitude, and landed on the seat William Ryan, if one might judge b; to the corridor, Back in the cabinet qows! ‘Ablpo says it! two dozen's started a growl—every A wild, blood-freeing cheer an- his thoughtful blinking as he eat wit id citizen Robert Pollard had ever lard, on sudden inspiration, “phe clicking of the heels stopped at ‘ach company has a captain?” the garned one of ‘em! swered ono of them, even as the com- | Just one brief, backward glance he ji5 back against a rock and studied A Bentino, the entrance and moved uncertainty. minister of state asked crisply. From the doorway Zarapa turned pany in the Cabinet room listened; a ave the rear of the car; they were a really remarkable panorama. lef of secret police entered jn the cahinet room they seemed to“! suppose so, senor.” said Zarapa, pewiidered mean, low growl came from another Scrambling In. His foot jammed down height; his skin was t saluted. hear Bentino’s tones for a moment, ui > as . Below them lay the city and the esa Se faye el and looked up wonderingly. “Wher? POwidered, eo ngim pe ectionund Capt. Vulvet shrugged the clutch-pedal; his hand tore at _ Helow them lay the city and the @ee the gente Chansan—and there sim. fe excellency jestre me eee card nia stap—-anid then: Just for a inoment if you please,” SMrile: (hes Neate Me titee voice and portant little fool over there and tell American, one man “You'll go straight to that im- aT ‘a the bis shoulders. brake and gear-levers, o larity to the average Santa Chanzun, stated. There Ie not ae ‘without, “1 guess you've done tt now!” be Jamen Evana, more famittarly the YorY lATk® ocean, with MMlAMDARS with his nerves and his olectric dart ‘he Minister of State said sweetly. yam of his door. * him to line up his wretched captains where two minutes bai “Can you come in here? After whieh the elick, click, click outside, Zarapa!” Mr, Pollard or- dred stood and Jested! BG h 2 vessels of various sizes; ahead lay @ 2 Bincer, too " a he chief ap- = ‘od dered, “Tell him that within ten ” at—corridot ” @ bs But you’ up his foot and sim@itaneously leaped oozed @ restfulness that was lik: upon ee alttod nim toentery SS" asa uitaundn ads Bie ee minutes T will give the word and they tari'sce mereh aie empty?” Mr. Pol- wiechby, I didn't do a aolitary thing Into his new character of demon turn in the road, and S cruia mapas drug. 28 ¢ locked the door again and elipped Wee ones: mien entered may file through this room, each man “Jt is"—— began his first assistant; I have to reproach myself with! chauffour! fite “fene nomewhat” stiffly and _ “And he’s actually in full charge?" the key into ie pocket. re Tittle, at leant, physical at- taking the money for his'own com- and then amended: “not!” Capt: Velvet informed pie solemn, ,,At the ond of the alley a simple na- stretched, Zarapa himaelt danced ™Urmured Mr. Pollard. “Bentin anid the Minister of | . {meditated. One round, pany and handing me his personal or dozens of heels were rattling |"! Just acted for w seen © tive, smoking and listening to the tur- around the turn. ‘He has nothing to do, save to State, “just what's wrong in this [Ack was not Medijoodthiraty mus. Tecelpt!"* on the noisy tiles now, and they were best, and I must say f looked to you moti of a mob which did not Interest “Our location has become discov- Fepert accidents which never happen,” town? do stratcht to the centre of Ile turned and strode straight from headed for that centre of interest, ty do # little better he him personally, turned his first, last, ered!” he reported. “See!"* sald Zarapa. “Year in and year out Pout nothing. excellence,” Banting HRehe Sin and atopped ehort, the apartment, with the Ministers of the Cabinet room AeA Giana BO) and You noe eave {2 and only double somersault, passing “Ite pointed a little distance down water flows Into the lake, senor, and, Fesponded in astonishment, ” im, two tall, lean War and Finance following silently. They stopped with a shuffling slide i . through his doorway upside down, the road they had climbed. no a m this monster, flows ell, that's just tiresome,» Behind Heine when he stopped, A' jonely pair. of incandoacents, and ihe door burst open, se en ow ek to my own work nd Innding fn his protty home with “rho large country house, which fs OM downhill through the great main. enapped Mr. Pollard as he clutched Marchi. vere vagely at their coun- burning In the corridor, shone on — Abipo, Cqmmander-in-Chlef, thud- now. the Captain concluded, “There's Hix, life, closed, ‘one sora It asa ilttle box He eats and sleeps, and sleeps and Bentino's throat In a fashion discov. hy Hee Nee and while various aar- them for an instant and then por- ded into thdroom and across the rug, too imuch for one President to do as it ‘Ten squares along, and approx!- from the Plasa Libertad, senor.” eats. ered and perfected in the palmy days {T¥i" Cling indicated that the two mitted the smaller passage to shroud and behind him pounded a score of {y without shouldering all the Cabinet ™Aately as many seconds Inter, an el- ‘He waited as Mr. Pollard studied “Tell him we're the new » up here to look over the an Tell ister of State with white lips, a8 he Into a decidedly qutet litt would climb that hill for pay, far leas use tt.” stepped between them. “There's hia voice hit Bectctign alley, and for mero vengeance, “Many people travet thia way, Za. nothing to be gained by trying so My faithful Pedro? Ne te baad tosntenbaakee: beraee Teen thrash him, w ja entire “la there 01 » “Ho is busy to-night, aenor, y under the windows.” cried the Mintaton ot Tene ere?” qured!” Zarapa chuckled unpleasant. ; none senor?” The ttle maa He directed glowering eyes at the “i: stands not fifty feet distant. IY: “If they but grow mad enough to /@ughed outright. “In a year, pers good Captain, senor!” the first assistant informed S!ty him!” haps two or three, friende of Darepa, “Well, you got us into tt. How are him. “Pedro is atrangely absent, ., They won't!” sald the Minister of That te all. Tho hill. senor” you going to get us out of it?” —_ * State weakly, and, rising, he groaned: " wwewe pioked off the ri: sme “Out of it, Robby?” smiled Capt. small anatomy had been “ive mo that seat cushion!” La he 6 ripest plum the Minister fifth of the army had received its Velvet. “By ginger, I dunno! They thrust aside The Minister of Finance felt for on the whole continent, and we stum- king materials bled over it at that!" he muttered. eh of Hell's Kitchen. might possibly be officers of some them in kindly darkness; and in the wild-eyed men. work, too.!’ derly crone in an upper window, the mansion moodily—a big place, im- It was really a wonderful grip. It Th tnere was no doubt at all about gloom Mr. Pollard fumbled through —Wild-voiced ‘they were, too, for “Yie’ nodded amiably at them and “0zing because she had listened to posing in ite way, yet of Do great In- possibly to make a few changes, Bentino’s speech as shears tye cind man. the treasury keys and chuckled {n- they all chattered at once; and, for turned and sauntered toward the door obs for a century, cackled into terest to the Minister of State, for he bim to show us where all the tools thave clipped a running tape. HHis coat bore some six or seven sanely. the matter of that, wild-handed; ““ing they stood and watched him, Wakefulness and felt about for her said are, Particularly the big “Just one wall or wriggle and you're pounds of gold braid that had glis- “pil! Snake! We've got this above their heads, clutching fingers motionless. Grectanles, "I aoe it, We can't settle Gown crowbars and jacks and things.” done, Benny!" the Minister of State Pood brightly in’the dear long ago; country tled up in a bundle and all of various shades of brown waved “fiand on knob, he turned to emile Helampago had livened up at last: there for the rest of our lives, Zarap®. “He says that there are no teste, “Now, wha‘’s wrong here?” jie head, still covered, boasted po! ly to move, It never struck me till the gold-tinted money of Santa again, clvil war was at hand, for projec- How are we golng to gan from senor, save for three wren four is—-as_ nothing, excellency.” giniy the most unique cocked hat !n just that instant. When we've pald Chanza. “I told Abipo you'd have eome real /le had just whistled down the street. this charming mpot? ond ghovels, three hundred choked the chief of secret police, the universe; a long sword rattled at that rabble in full they'll be handling Abipo himself had garnered quite money for ‘em inside of one hour,” he | A mile or so from the palacio & the mountains?” - dynamite and the other stuff mere threatened—assassination! his side, and one hand even wore * the first real money they've seen in a remarkable collection of the wealth; said pleasantly and perfunctorily, Quaint little open air cafe stood on “Additional mountains, senor, blasters loft last year, and these 2 glove, some time white, but mello three years, and we'll be the most he shook it at Robert Pollard and “They might possibly be able to hold NO Commer of @ quaint atrest that ~~ baa never touched, since they*—— Yours, excellenc: by time and dust to a becoming gt popular people in the whole republic! grew downright {mpolite, for he apat ‘em off that long, but—T dunno, I'm Dreathed a! rongly of old Spain. “Dynamite!” breathed Robert “What?” shrieked the Minister of “qt: ix Abipo!” muttered the First Get it? upon tt and hurled it at Robert Pol- sure, You can't tell, down here in n quiet evenings placid citizens ponert Pollard sighed. Mountains, tard, “Is there dynamite here? Finance. ‘Are they trying to get Assistant Minister of State, with rem confessed the Minister of Jard’s feet Santa Chanza.” Pound tables meine hee attl® railroad or anything else, they were that clod to cook up something him? awe. War. ‘And then, through the centre of — And he was gone. dasuasine sndnnel ike er glasses, in a bad plight at and he was Zarapa, and do it quick ‘Then some “And you, excellency—and the other — Mr. Pollard drew breath. “When we've got the army we've them, a too familiar figure forced tts “Senors,” sald Zarapa, reappearing, than enamine the line roe cand distinctly hungry outdoors." excellency,” Benting bubbled and who?" , Bot the country, Once that army's way. Capt. Velvet thundered over to “it 1s time to go and—-- Well wait toe thamrehae a “Passing up this road, senor, there ‘Two of New York's best brokenly he explained the whole sit- “Manuelo Abipo, the general, senor! paid off I'm golng to be President!” the table and the men beside tt as — “Yes, and get out!” Mr. Pollard or- turhance had lured them away Wa: ts the lake," his assistant ber: eyed bim dubtously as be ation. nder-in-chief of our entire § ““sood-night!” gasped the Minister he cried: dered. “You're a pretty good Uttle pent: for the propre ey to eWhat lake? Mr. Pollard walked to them Sith “Listen!” aaid Pollard. “If you said hin aide, as the General of finance. “What is {t? What devilment have sport, and nobody seems to want your MIKMt: for the proprietor, standing tificlal one—the reservoir of nt to die quick, go in and tell Vel- 1 ’ springy step and gi talk in Spanish, Ryan or- «pm going to be President, and I'm you started now?” blood at least. Slide out that door Pumply as usual in his doorway and Relamp It {s there one finds the fittle time’ ne no sowie ee Some ‘vet what I've done to you hundred ‘apn to translate, The Iat- going to put the rollers under Velvet The Minister of State eyed bim while you can and we'll do"—— sighing over the empty tables, had onty fresh water within o on distant Relam: Bentino departed. Pollard turned ter began: so fast that he'll never know when coldly. The frst assistant was not even Meuine anime yt ddentify the mites of the city, senor, collected With spoke there was a aot almoek ef ave to the others. “He says that the army has suf- he started to alide—and he'll never “I'm paying off the army,” he listening. Whiz grew toa roaring acream, and great difficulty from the mountatn ta his voice: “we're going to empty that treas- fered long and patiently without one gtop till doomsday! I'm some cussed stated Briskly he atepped to the side of a vast black something short catting ftreams. pursued Zarapa with & COF- skit down on that rock and Tisten, ury and leave with the bundle, by it cent of pay; he says that two years jittle payer of grudges myself, and “With that?’ the room and opened the closet; the corner, whiffed tables, ch ne tain air of proprietorship. he 11 to this. There’ gate valve in there. back window, inside of two minutes!” ago they were paid In full with Gov- when I get all done with him I'll sleep With that money, which hasn't briskly, too, he laid a hand uj Awning, potted shrubs and’ all into gy lt the email house at the ear Wo turn it three times and shut eat he said ljucidly. "If that little dub of ernment promissory notes, which the all night every night with a grin been out of your treasury for more of its hooks and caused the the air--and wae gone up the hill thac {2eonsineer, from the end of One Y8aF ovary biawted drop of water trom a detective's out there, we'll enatch Cabinet declared {ilegal a little later trom one ear to the other,” theiMinta- than ten minutes,” Mr. Pollard said, open; and he turned at to tha end of the next. A lonely life, yor P Hi J nald simply: jed t mpago! Get it im up and lock him in the vault, —and that last year they were paid ter of War said serenely an heYocked with crisp contempt. “It's the first enors, and with tplintaned teeta ate a edie baa end TOS tocked up with voice rone, “He must n with a snectal tssue of Government the compartment and laughed aloud. visible sign of honesty and square 1 and he indicated the yawning the gr: 70 “And then right out of the coun- honda. ‘A mere spectator must have admire’ de@ling that your unlucky army has blackness beyond. wae IO APNE. tatnaat thougn te £007" = for a city of a, hundred’ thenseee faz?" the Gnake asked feverishly. “He says, senor, that since no one Robert Pollard’s mien as he returned geen from this wretched little coun- One tremendous second the Cabinet wns, rather steadied the Snake now. Naturally. him People to be without water?’ ‘Ae otraight as"—— the Minister would buy the bonds in other coun- to the cabinet chamber, for it was the ree"—~ of Santa Chanza blinked uncompye- ever. Another like it and bite of piaas Well &O and breakfast with Bim sf gee what it means to u— the of State began fiercely—and stopped. tries, even the government here mien of a brave man. thundered Captain Velvet. hendingly at the First Assistant Min- might well elice through his trex mma, 2nd find out how we're going to Ft Boake began dingustedly. In the corridor there med to be which issued them concluded that Head up, he smiled placid good ‘Wasn't there trouble enough here ister of State; another and they halt the cabinets departure from Re- clea? of this devilish country after- “ing, you don't, because no @ small commotion; it subsided al- they must be worthless, and refused cheer; and the smile broadened sid- without this? Weren't things badly leaped madly across the room, gazed lampaso. ward,” sald Mr, Pollard, as he prod- going'to happen to us” the ius most immediately, and light, steps to redeem them—and that thus the qonly at the sound of a shout from tke enough upset without trying to fool at the dark square In which Zarapa’s — He desired speed, of course, and this {0d the Snake into wakefulness. of state assured him. “That'e iter pattered to the door of the Cabinet suffering soldiers have seen no mon- moh without. them with that waste paper?” Py) tte glowed faintly, and stepped particular machine, pound for pound, “Crank up and come along. I'M beauty of the whole thing. T au the room, and the door opened. ey for a period #o long that their — Zarapa he stationed at the door by — “Waste paper?" wheezed from the through after bim Beomed capable of furhishing more Going to walk.” quite seo It till I found that yak Barone te Sraciiene Corse Nein mmlline are Stn am way of regulating the line that was Minister of Finance. {t was a still, dark room they had apeod than anything elao on whrelu: , 8 started up the road, ZArap® mite, but we've got that little toy Before them, hatless, breathless, with = «was that all?” inquired the Min- ajrendy forming at the main entrance "Yes, waate paper!” the President entered, A yard or two atvay the hut caution would have to have some trotting beside him Just as tight now as if p Boe! : hands waving irresponsibly. ister of War. and the little man shook and giggled pro tem. repeated, obligingly, ‘That's little man's voice said plactdly: ull place $n hie driving They made the turn and, topping ® natled down. Zarap we had it “They are coming!” the first agsist- «ny no means, senor, He said that hyeterically at the turn of affairs and a batch of bills we turned down five — "Meroly the office of that Minister — ti. ‘aquinted into the. blackness Kentle slope, found the elty and the enor!” sald the faithful ant announced, “They—the mob now the end has come and he can no the pile of hank-notes upon the table. years ago because the engraving was who first employed me, senors, Ha id, Where street lamps thinned ont Country house tn sight once more: sistant, hurrying to his eld frst as- “Coming for what?" rasped the jonger control his troops. They de- my the last one, they were of the and ow spares appeared between but the Minister of State pald scant “Do ‘you know where the Minister of Finance. Depart. mand full pay for all of the last three thousand-dollar denomination, and Mr. ane eee the houses. He kicked wildly. stout attention to them as he made for the puna at main 4 The first aid to the Btate Depart: years and that falling they promise Pollard plunged headlong tnto them the dash in the faint hope of atrikinr Sauat, square, little brick house With “The great one, senor? Directly ment’ wrung his hands in a heart- to eliminate from Santa Chanza a picking off piles of four, counting a Hehting awitch—and kicked mont the tall stack ndes tha tana rectly woken fashion that was most dis- government so perfidious. It is to pay them and laying them aside and count- luckily, einee a white flare leaped up — At ite side Zarapa halted him for — “Hine! We'll dig down to tt We'l in the road ahead @ moment and pointed through the plant ffty pounda of a od Are You Going Away for the Summer? urbing. instantly or die, senor—that Is what er piles. Mor you, aenors!” he cried. hoyaald at the ast, and J tear" —— tg FOr eet) menayl” ee “Find out how much he wants for phe door opened and a queer man CHAPTER IX. the whole army, Zarapa, entered—a lean man, with hungry Full The first assistant reeled. eyes, who clutched his heart as the Paid in Full. "The most elevated senor would eyo found the table and darted for- HAT d'ye mean, they're pay from his personal pocket?” ha ward, 66 ih gasped. The minister of W coming for us "Ina sense,” aatd Mr, Pollard captain, here ; The Snake gulped down a difficult dingy window against tt. We'll run the wires up sreath 1 nd chuckl him . "A slght of some Interest, senor,” to M4 -chuck RU ag tatie inne korn BEM the office—there's a whole electric , the sp! ing to Mr. Pollard paused tmpatiently and 4+ to a button on the desk. Then" end as it climbed, but they ‘hen somebody'll step on the but- & away from Relampago — Beyond the grime of the pane lay ton and the mountaln'll blow a 4 and Captain Velvet & litle box of a room, In the centre Yelvet'll be wise to where we wt He opened the throttle to the Inat he discer fier a time a single and"—- the Minister of War snarled, notch: he wondered vamuely, foe a hig handew t might have been — “Then we'll go right over tot second or two, why the car did not an eller brother to the steering ap- dam,” the Minister of Stute pursued stop on the incline to tear itself to tus of their automobile, and serenely, “and we'll plant about two nieces: and then, st neither cata- ) ita centre a thick st shaft hundred pounds of dynamite in a stronhe materialized, he bent low, which pissed downward through the couple of lik oking spots. We'll staring upward, and roared on and fir run that wire back to the office and ce on, alae aa it | which, opening or hook tt up te other button. ime and distance, as measurable eat gate-valve below, — “If both o} one ‘ auniities, ceased to eaiat, They were Of water tO Rec happen to be wieeed ae cane ita merely going up and up a hill that Zarapa informed him old Relampago, from one end to the Impressively, "f had thought other—Just dies of thirst! And every- would interest body tn town knows tt! thing hot to eat Interests me (To Be Continued.) When you go out of town for the summer you may find It Is difficult and costly to provide yourself with the right sort of reading matter, Why send to the city for novels at $1,25 or $1.50 each or buy them at a fancy price in some country store? You can supply yourself with the best, most deghtful summer reading for six cents a week. By subscribing to The Evening World for the summer months you will secure a complete novel each week. 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