Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1918 — RAINBOW'S END A NOVEL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RAINBOW'S END A NOVEL

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I SYNOPSIS. 'CHAPTER I—Don Esteban Varona, a Cuban planter, possesses a great treasure hoard. This wealth has been hidden In £ well on the estate by Sebastian, a slave, and only he and his master know the secret cache. Don Esteban’s wife dies a| the birth of' twins, Esteban and Rosa.' Don Esteban marries the avaricious Donna Isabel, who knows there Is hidden treasure and tries to wring the secret from Sebastian. When the slave refuses she tries to hurt him by having Evangelina, his laughter, whom he loves dearly and who b the special servant of the twins, sold. CHAPTER.-TI— Through Donna Isabel’s Scheming Don Esteban risks Evangelina •t cards and loses. Crazed by the loss of pls daughter, Sebastian kills Don Esteban and himself. , CHAPTER lll—Many years D ,°n na , l ®“2 be! searched for the hidden wealth of the Snan she had married. A few , y ea ” She seeks to marry Rosa to the rich Don ’Mario, but Rosa Is promised to OReiliy, Th* American, and awaits his return from New York, whence he has gone to break ft? his engagement to his s’J’Plwer s ‘ daughter. Esteban la secretly aiding the Insurrectos. I CHAPTER IV—Donna Isabel is at the of Pancho Cueto, her unscrupulous administrator, who knows the deeds to the plantation are lost with the treas £re. One night she walks in her sleep and meets her death ln th e treasure wellEsteban and Rosa are forced to flee when Cueto denounces them as rebels. * CHAPTER V—Rosa writes to O' l *® l ”* ks their plight and urges him to come and save her. CHAPTER VT—O’Reilly soon lands in buba, but finds he will have hard work to reach Rosa, as communication with the Insurrectos is difficult and dangerbus. (CHAPTER VII— O’Reilly meets Eesll® Eranch, newspaper man, wl }o 's avlctim bf tuberculosis, and they plan a way to Join the Insurrectos together. I CHAPTER VIII—In the meantime Cueto Wans to lead Cobo, a Spanish colonel of (volunteers, execrated for his cruelty, to the hiding place of Esteban and Rosa. j CHAPTER IX—Cobo and his men cap(tore Rosa, but she is Immediately rescued by Esteban, and Cobo is' Injured In the fight. O’Reilly plans to reach the InBurrectos by the aid of Doctor Alvarado, 0. friend of the Cuban cause. CHAPTER reach the Insurrectos, but his plans miscarry. He and Leslie Branch are arrested and sent back to America. Esteban tells Rosa of the coming of General Weyler to “pacify” the Island. CHAPTER XT—Esteban raids Cueto’s [home and kills him, but Spanish troops «ome up and Esteban escapes badly fwoundea. He does not reach home. With CEsteban missing, Rosa, Evangelina and Ser husband, Asensio, with whom Rosa (has been staying,- give up hope and go Snto a Spanish concentration camp. CHAPTER XII—In New York O’Reilly inlang a filibustering expedition to Cuba «nd Is offered assistance by Norine hEvans, a wealthy girl, who Insists on financing the venture and going along as ia, nurse. Soon the expedition starts for Cuba in a small tramp steamer. CHAPTER XHl—The filibusters land In Cuba and O’Reilly learns of Esteban and |Hosa. Norine begins her duties as nurse. Rose, In Matanzas, visits her old home, '■which Is In ruins.

CHAPTER XIV—In a raid Esteban, (dangerously ill, is rescued from a Spanish fprison by O'Reilly and the Cubans. CHAPTER XV—Esteban tells O'Reilly Bie believes the treasure Is hidden in the >ell on the plantation. O Reilly learns ithe town in which Rosa Is held prisoner determines to go to her. • CHAPTER XVf-Wlth Jacket, a Cuban (boy, O’Reilly starts out determined to (save Rosa. After many trials they enIter Matanzas, the City of Death. CHAPTER XVll—After a long searcn fo’Reilly finds Rosa, ill and but a tof her former self. He tells her Esteban its not ® and she partially recovers lier health. O’Reilly determines to search |jor the treasure in the well on the old plantation. r CHAPTER XVIII-O’Reilly finds in the j-well indications that he is on the right wrack but is handicapped by weakness idue to lack of food. Colonel Cobo learns ieomeone is looking for the treasure, and (resolves to Investigate. CHAPTER XIX— O’Reilly finds the (treasure at the moment Cobo reaches the scene. Cobo endeavors to kill O Reilly, but is himself slain by Jacket and falls Into the well. *l’ll tell you.” O’Reilly assumed direction of the conversation. ‘‘There ere three of us brothers, we two and Esteban, a pretty little fellow. He was captured by Gobo’s men and driven In, end we came to find him. But he is tick —dying —” “Of course. They’re all dying—the poor people! It is terrible.” —.» O’Reilly faltered slightly, teo much hung upon the manner in (which Morin would take what he was (about to say. “We want to get him

of here —we must do so, br weTl lose him. Will you help us?” “I? In heaven’s name, how?" “By taking us away in your charcoal schooner.” “You’re mad!” Morin cast another apprehensive look over his shoulder. “I’m a poor man. All I have Is my two boats, the vlvero, which brings fish, and the volandra, which sails with charcoal. Do you think I’d forfeit them and my life for strangers?” O’Reilly leaned closer. “You say you’re a poor man. I will pay you well.” Morin eyed the ragged speaker scornfully ; It was plain that he put no faith in such a promise, and so O’Reilly took a piece of gold from his pocket, at sight of which the fisherman started. “I, too, am a poor man, but I’m willing to buy freedom for my little brothers and myself.” “How many coins like that have you?” “Um-m —more than one; enough to pay you for several cargoes of coal.” “For the sake of Miguellto,” Jacket urged. “Caramba! What a hard-heart-ed father begot .that boy !" “Hush!” The fisherman, was scowltag. To O’Reilly he said. “You do wrong to tempt a poor man.” “My brother Esteban is sick. He la a frail little ladjvlth a crooked back. God will reward you.” “Perhaps! But how much will you pay?” “Ten Spanish sovereigns like this—all that T ’■ “No! It Is not enough." O’Reilly' took Jacket’s hand and turned away. “I’m sorry,” he said. “I wish I might offer you more.” He had taken several steps before Morin hailed him.

“Come back tomorrow," the fisherman cried, crossly. “We will try to talk like sensible people.” The brothers Villar were back at Morin’s fish stand on the following afternoon and they returned dally thereafter until they at last prevailed over the Spaniard’s fears and won his promise of assistance. That much accomplished, they made several cautious purchases, a coat here, a shirt there, a pair of trousers in another place, until they had assembled a complete boy’s outfit of clothing. At first Rosa refused absolutely to desert her two faithful negro friends, and O’Reilly won her consent to consider his plan of escape only after he had put the matter squarely up to Asensio and his wife and after both had refused to enter info it.

Then, and not until then, did Rosa begin her preparations. First she made Evangelina cut her hair, a sacrilege that wrung'sighs and tears and loud lamentations" from the black woman, after which she altered the suit of boy’s clothing to fit her figure, or rather to conceal it. When at last she put it on for O’Reilly’s approval she was very shy, very

self-conscious, and so altogether unboylike that he shook his head positively. “My dear, you’ll never do,” he told her. “You are altogether too pretty.” “But wait until 1 put* that hideous hump upon my back and stain my face, then you will see how ugly I can look.” “Perhaps,” he said, doubtfully. ,_A moment, then his frown lightened. “You give me a thought,” said he. "You shall wear the Jewels.” “Wear them? How?” “On your back, in that very hump. It will be the safest possible way to con?eal them.”

■ Rostf mapped her hands In delight. “Why, of course 1 It is the very thing. Wait until I show you.” Profiting by her first moment alone —Evangelina and her husband being still in ignorance of the contents of the treasure box —Rosa made a bundle out of the jewels and trinkets and fastened it securely inside her coat After a few experiments she adjusted it to her liking, then called O’Reilly once more. This time he was better satisfied. An application of Evangelina’s stain to darken her face, a few tatters and a liberal application of dirt to the suit, &nd he declared that Rosa would pass anywhere as a boy. There came a night when the three of them bade good-by to their black companions and slipped away across the city to that section known as Pueblo Nuevo, then followed the road along the water front until they found shelter within the shadows of a rickety structure which had once served as a bath house.

The refugees waited a long time; they were beginning- to fear that old Morin’s nerve had weakened at the eleventh hour, when they beheld a skiff approaching the shore. It glided closer, entered the shade of the bath house, then a voice cried : “Pset! You are there?" It was Morin himself. Hastily the three piled aboard. Morin bent to his oars and the skiff shot out. “You were not observed?” he inquired. “No.” Morin rowed in silence for a time. “When do you sail ?” O’Reilly asked. “At dawn, God permitting. You will have to remain hidden and you mustn’t even breathe.” He brought the skiff alongside a battered old schooner, and his passengers clambered aboard. There was a tiny cabin aft and on it, sheltered from the night dew by a loose fold of the mainsail, were two sleeping men. The newcomers followed Morin down into the evil little cabin, where he warned them in a hoarse whisper: “Not a sound, mind you. If anyone comes aboard, you must shift for yourselves. Creep into the hold and hide. Of course, if we are searched —" He muttered something, then groped his way out on deck, and closed the hatch behind him. Now that they had actually embarked upon this enterprise and the girl had given herself entirely Into his hands, now that an Imminent peril encompassed them both, Johnnie felt that Rosa belonged to him more absolutely, more completely, than at any time heretofore, so he held her close. Rosa lay relaxed against her lover’s shoulder and in halting murmurs, interrupted many times by caresses, she told O’Reilly of her need for him, and her utter happiness. It was the fullest hour of their lives.

With daylight, Morin routed out his men. There was a sleepy muttering, the patter of bare feet upon the deck above, then the creak of blocks as the sails were raised. A few moments, then there came a hall which brought their hearts Into their throats. Morin himself answered the call. “Good morning, countryman! Have you caught any of those accursed filibusters since I saw you last? So? Cayo Romano, eh? What have I aboard?” Morin laughed loudly. “You know very well —cannon and shot for the rebels, of course. Will you look? . . . No? . . . Then a cup of coffee perhaps?” O’Reilly peeped through a dirtstainqd cabin window and saw that the volandra was slipping past the stern of the Ironclad, so he withdrew his head quickly. Of course this was but one danger past and there were many more ahead, for Morin’s schooner was liable to be stopped by any of the numerous patrol boats op duty to the eastward. Nevertheless, when an anxious hour had gone by and she was well out toward the harbor mouth, the- refugees told one another they were safe. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

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"My Dear, You’ll Never Do,” He Told Her.