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THE MEETING AT CADOZA. It is something like ten miles to Cadoza, another and smaller railway town, and Ashley arrives about noon. There is no American hotel here. Instead, a lazy Cuban keeps a shiftl…
“EL TERREDO.” Ashley waits until he believes that Capt. Alvarez and his men have got fairly on their way toward Jibana; then he mounts Rozinante and rides back to the hotel. Half a mile to the eastwa…
THE FIGHT IN THE MOONLIGHT. “Didn’t expect you back so soon,” declares Landlord Carter, answering Ashley’s halloa without the Hotel Americano at Jibana. “I am a little ahead on my own calculations,” …
THE METAMORPHOSIS OF DON CARLOS. “Stand back!” commands Navarro, as his men start forward to the enraged Alvarez, whose fingers have twined about the insurgent leader’s neck. “Back, I say! I can hand…
THE DOVE AND THE SERPENT. “Whoa, Rozinante! If thou art as weary of this road as I, good beast, a rest will not go against thy grain, or grass. What say you to a halt of half an hour within the shade…
PLAYING FOR HIGH STAKES. Scarcely has a third of the distance to Santiago been covered when horse and rider realize that the pace set is no longer compatible with the Cuban climate. As Rozinante sett…
THE PEN WINS. Upon his return to the ball-room Ashley is taken to task by General Murillo. “I have been searching for you for over half an hour,” the general assures him. “Come over here while I intr…
THE SWORD TRIUMPHANT. “You are in unusually good spirits this evening, Senor Ashley.” “I am always happy when I am near you, senorita,” is Jack’s fervent response. At which speech, the warmest she ha…
EL CALABOZO DE INFIERNO. An ordinary man, suddenly placed in the position in which Jack Ashley finds himself, would perhaps exhaust his strength in useless imprecations upon his oppressors, and finis…
AT BAY IN THE CHURCH OF SAN PEDRO. As the echo of Father Hilario’s footsteps dies away adown the gloomy corridor Ashley glances at his watch. It lacks a quarter of two o’clock. “The trick must be don…
