:yssf WiUWPfC . '&&& fmw-'-c--m' RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF "! h ' H y L! is! 1: fltoWMMf Rainbow's By SECRET OF THE HIDING PUCE OF THE VARONA TREAS URE IS LOST Synopsis. Don Kstcbnn Vuronu, n Cubun planter, hides Ills wealth money, Jewels und title deeds In n well on his estate. The hiding plnre Is known only to Sebastian, n slave. Don Kstebun's wife dies at the birth of twins, Kstcbnn and Hosa. Don Kstebnn marries the avaricious Donna Isabel, who tries unsuccessfully to wring the secret of the hidden treasure from Sebastian. Angered at his refusal, she urges Don Kstebnn to sell KvmiRellnu, Sebastian's daughter. Don Ksteban refuses, hut In the course of u gambling orgle, he risks Evnngollnn at cartls and loses. CHAPTER II Continued. 2 Don Pablo, In whom the liquor was dying, cursed Impatiently: "Carambtil Have I won the treasure of your whole establishment?" he Inquired. "Per haps you value this wench at more than n thousand pesos; If so, you will ay that I cheated you." "No I She's only an ordinary girl. My wife doesn't like her, and so I de termined to get rid of her. She is yours, fairly enough," Vnrann told him. "Then send her to my house. I'M breed her to Salvador, my cochero. Ho'h the strongest man I have." Scbnytlau uttered a strangled cry and rose to his feet. "Master 1 You must not " "Silence I" ordered Ksteban. "Go about your business. What do you mean by this, anyhow?" llut Sebastian, dazed of mind nnd alck of soul, went on, unheeding. "She Is my girl. You promised me her free dom. I warn you " "Eh?" The planter swayed forward and with blazing eyes surveyed his lave. "You warn mu? Of what?" he growled. At this moment neither master nor man know exactly what he said or did. flebustluu raised his hand on high. In reality the gesture was meant to call heaven ns a witness to his years of faithful service, but, misconstruing his Intent, Pablo Peza brought his riding whip down ncross the old man's back, crying: "llo I None of that." A shudder ran through Sebastian's frame. Whirling, he seized -Don Pab lo's wrist and tore the whip from his lingers. Although the Spaniard was u atrong man, he uttered u cry of puln. At this Indignity to a guest Kstobun flow Into a fury. "Pancho!" he cried. "Ilo! Pancho 1" When the manager camo running, Esteban explained: "This fool Is dangerous. He raised his hand to me and to Don Pablo." Sebastian's protests were drowned by the angry voices of the others. "Tlo him to yonder grating," di rected Esteban, who was still In the grip of a senseless rage. "Flog him well nnd make haste about It." Sebastian, who had no time In which to recover himself, made but a weak resistance when Puncho Cueto locked his wrists Into n pair of clumsy, old fashioned manacles, tlrst passing the chain around one of the bars of the Iron window grating which Estebnu had Indicated. Cueto swung a heavy lash; the sound of his blows echoed through the qulntn, and they summoned, among others, Donna Isabel, who watched the scene from behind her shutter with much satisfaction, tiio guests iookou on approvingly. Sebastian made no outcry. The whip bit deep; It drew blood and raised welts the thickness of one's thumb; nevertheless, for the llrst few moments the victim suffered less In body than In Bplrlt. Ills brain was so benumbed, so shocked with other excitations, that lie was well-nigh Insensible to physical pain. That Evangellna, tle.sh of his flesh, had boon sold, that his lifelong faithfulness had brought such reward as this, that Esteban, light of his soul, had turned against him all this was simply ustoundlng. Grudually he be gau to resent the shrieking Injustice of It all, nnd unsuspected forces gathered Insldo of him. They grew until Ids frame was shaken by primitive savage Impulses. After a time- Don Esteban cried: "That will do, Cueto I Leave him now for the llles to punish. They will re mind him of his Insolence." Then tho guests departed, and Este ban staggered Into the house and went to bed. All that morning Sebastian stood with his hands chained high over his bead. Tho sun grew hotter and ever hotter upon his lacerated back; the blood dried and clotted there; a cloud of fllei gathered, swarming over the raw gashes left by Cueto's whip. Since Don Estebnn's nerves, or per bap It was his conscience, did not permit him to sleep, he arose about noontime nnd dressed himself. lie was still drunk, and the mad rage of the aarly morning still possessed hVm; therefore, when he mounted his horso he pretended not to sl-e the llguro chained to tho window grating. Sebas tian's affection for his master was dog like and he had taken his punishment as n dog takes his, more- In surprise than in anger, but at this proof of cal lous indifference a tire kindled In the old fellow's breast, hotter by far than the fever from his fly-blown sores. lie REX BEACH (Copyright, by Harper was thirsty, too, but that was the least of his sufferings. Some time during the afternoon the negro heard himself nddressed through the whitlow against the bars of which ho leaned. The speaker was Donna Isabel. "Do you suffer, Sebastian?" she be gan In a tone of gentleness and pity. "Yes, mistress." The speaker's tongue was thick and swollen. "Can I help you?" The negro raised his head ; he shook his body to rid himself of the Insects which were devouring liltu. "Gve iiig n drink of water," he said, hoarsely. "Surely, a great gourdful, nil cool and dripping from the well. Hut llrst 1 want you to tell me something." "A drink, for the love of heaven," panted the old man, and Donna Isabel saw how cracked and dry were his thick lips, how near the torture had come to prostrating him. "I'll ilo more," she promised, nnd her voice was like honey. "I'll tell Pancho Cueto to unlock you, even If I risk Es tebnn's anger by so doing. Will you be my friend? Will you tell me some thing?" "What can I tell you?" "Oh, you know very well I I've asked It often enough, but you have lied, Just us my hushnnd 1ms lied to me. lie Is a miser; he has no heart; he cares for nobody, as you cun see. You must hate him now, even as I hate him. Tell me Is there really a treasure, or ?" r "Tell Me Is There Really a Treat ure, or V The woman gasped; she choked; she could scarcely force the question for fear of disappointment. "Tell me there Is, Sebastian. I've heard so many lies that I begin to doubt." The old man nodded. "Oh, yes, there Is a treasure," said he. "Oh I You have seen It?" Isabel was trembling as If with an ague. "What Is it like? How much Is there? Good Sebastian, I'll give you water; I'll have you set free If you tell me." "How much? I don't know, llut there Is much pieces of Spanish gold, silver coins In casks and in little boxes the boxes ure bound with Iron nnd have hasps and staples; bars of precious metal and little paper pack ages of gems, all tied up and hidden In leather bags." "Yes I Go on." "There are ornaments, too. Gml knows they must have come from heaven, they nre so beautiful; and pearls from the Caribbean as large as plums." "Are you speaking the truth?" "Did I not make tho hldlng-placo all alone? Senora, everything Is there Just as I toll you and more. The grants of title from tho crown for this qulntn nnd the sugar plantations, they nre there, too. Don Esteban used to fear the government olllclals, so he hid his papers securely. Without them the lands belong to no one. You under stand?" "Of course I Yes, yes I But tho Jew els Where are they hidden?" "You would never guess 1" Sebas liSf; I w r $ v fe tCS4U V t J i '. .-rm, " End .sji Author of "The Iron Trail' "The Spoilers." "Heart of the Sunset," Etc and HrotherH) tian's voice gathered strength. "Ten thousand men In ten thousund years would never Und the place, and nobody knows the secret but Don Esteban and me." "I believe you. I knew nil the time It was here. Well? Where Is it?" Sebastian hesitated and said, plte ously, "I am dying" Isabel could scurcely contain herself. "I'll give you wnter, hut llrst tell me where where I God In heaven 1 Cuu't you see that I, too, tun perishing?" "I must have n drink." "Tell me llrst." Sebastian lifted his bend nnd, meet ing the speaker's eyes, laughed hoarse ly. At tho sound of his unnntural merri ment Isabel recoiled us If stung. She stared at the slave's face In amazement and then In fury. She stammered, In coherently, "You you have been lying I" "Oh no I The treasure Is there, the greatest treasure In nil Culm, but you shall never know where It Is. I'll see to that. It was you who t:old my girl ; It was you who brought me to this; It was your hand that whipped me. Well, I'll tell Don Esteban how you tried to bribe his secret from me I Whut do you think he'll do then? Eh? You'll feel the Insh on your white back " "You fooll" Donna Isabel looked murder. "I'll punish you for this; I'll make you speak If I have to rub your wounds with snlt." llut Sebastian closed his eyes wearily. "You cun't mnke me suffer more than I have suffered," he snld. "And now I curse you. liny that treasure be the death of you. May you live In torture like mine the rest of your days; may your beauty turn to ugliness such that men will spit at you ; muy you never know peace ugaln until you die In poverty nnd want " But Donnn Isabel, being supersti tious, lied with her fingers In her eurs ; nor did she undertake to make good her barbarous threat, realizing oppor tunely that It would only serve to be tray her desperate Intentions nnd put her husband further on his guard. As the sun wns sinking beyond the farther rim of the Yumurl and the val ley was beginning to fill with shadows Esteban Vnronn rode up tho hill. His temper wns more evil than ever, If thut were possible, for he had drunk again I In an effort to drown tho memory of his earlier actions. With him were Pablo Peza, and Mnrlo do Castano. Col. Men doza y Linares, old Pedro MIron, the advocate, and others of less conse quence, whom Esteban had gathered from the Spanish club. The host dis mounted nnd lurched ncross the court yard to Sebastian. "So, my fine fellow," he begun. "Have you had enough of rebellion by tills time?" Sebastian's face was working as lie turned upon his master to say: "I would be lying If I told you that I am sorry for what I did. It Is you who have doue wrong. Your soul Is black with this crime. Where Is my girl?" "The devil I To hear you talk one would think you were a free man." The planter's eyes were bleared and he brandished his rldlng-whlp threaten ingly. "I do as I please with my slaves. I tolerate no Insolence. Your girl? Well, she's In the house of Salvador, Don Pablo's cochero, where she be longs." Sebastian bad hung sick and limp against the grating, but nt these words he suddenly roused, lie strained at his mutiucles and the bars groaned un der his weight. Ills eyes began to roll, his lips drew back over his blue gums. Noting his expression of ferocity, Este ban cut at his naked back with the rldlng-whlp, crying: "Ho! Not subdued yet, eh? You need another Hogging." "Curse you and nil that Is yours," roared the maddened slave. ".May jmi know the misery you have put upon me. May you rot for a million years In hell. May your children's bodies grow lllthy with disease; may they starve; may they " Sebastian was yelling, though his voice was hoarse with pain. The lash drew blood with every blow. Mean while, he wrenched nnd tugged at his bonds with the fury of a maniac. "Pablo! Your machete, quick!" panted the slaveowner. "I'll make an end of this black llend, once for all." Esteban Varona's guests had looked on at the scene with the snme mild In terest they would display at the whip ping of a balky horse; and, now that the animal threatened to become dan gerous, It was In their view quite the proper thing to put It out of tho wny. Don Pablo Peza stepped toward his mare to draw the machete from Its scabbard. Hut he did not band It to his friend. He heard a shout, and turned In time to see a wonderful and a terrible thing. Sebastian had braced his nnked feet against the wall; he had bowed his back and bent his massive shoulders n back and a pair of shoulders that looked as bony nnd muscular as those of nn ox and he was heaving with every ounce of strength In his enor mous body. As Pablo stared he saw tho heavy grating como away from Its nnchoruga In tho solid masonry, as a shrub Is uprooted from soft ground. The rods bent and twisted; there was J a clunk and rattle und clash of metal upon the Hugs; und then Sebastian turned upon his tormentor, n free man, save only for the wide Iron bracelets and their connecting chain. He was quite Insane. Ills fnce was frightful to behold; It was apelike In Its animal rage, und he towered above his muster like some fabled creature out of the African Jungle of his forefathers. Sebastian's lists nlone would have been formidable weapons, but they were nrtnored und weighted with the old-fashioned, hand-wrought Irons which Puncho Cueto hud locked upon them. Wrapping the chain In his An gers, the slave leaped nt Esteban and struck, once. The sound of the blow was sickening, for the whole bony structure of Esteban Vnronu's heud gave way. There was n horrified cry from the other white men. Don Pablo Peza ran forward, shouting. He swung his machete, but Sebastian met him before the blow could descend, und they went down together upon the hard stones. Again Sehustlun smote, with his mas sive hands wrapped In the chain nnd his wrists encased In steel, and this time It was as If Don Pablo's head had been caught between n hammer and an anvil. The negro's strength, exceptional at nil times, was multiplied tenfold; he hud run amuck. When he arose the machete was In his grasp and Don Pablo's brains were on Ills knuckles. It nil happened in far less time than It takes to tell. The nulookers hud not yet recovered from their tlrst conster nation; In fact they were still fumbling and tugging nt whatever weapons they curried, when Sebastian came toward them, brandishing the blade on high. Pedro MIron, the ndvocate, wns the third to fall. lie tried to scramble out of the negro's path, hut, being an old man, his limbs were too stiff to serve him and he went down shrieking. By now tho horses hnd caught the scent of hot blood and were plunging furiously, the clatter of their hoofs mingling with the blasphemies of the riders, while Sebastian's bestial roar ing made tho commotion even more hideous. Ksteban'8 guests fought as much for their lives as for vengennce upon the slayer, for Sebastian wns like a gorilla; he seemed Intent upon killing them all. He vented his fury upon whatever came within 'his reach ; he struck ut men and animals alike, and the shrieks of wounded horses added to the din It was a frightful combut. It seemed Incredible that one man could work such dreadful havoc (n so short a time. Vnronn nnd two of his. friends were dead; two more were badly wounded, and n Peruvian stallion lay kicking on the llngglng when Col. Mendozn y Lin ares Dually managed to get a bullet home In the bluck man's brain. Those who cume running to Icnrn the cause of the hubbub turned away sick nnd pullld, for the paved yard was a shambles. Pancho Cueto called upon the slaves to help him, but they slunk back to their quarters, dumb with ter ror and dismay. All that night people from the town below came and went and tho qulntn resounded to sobs and lamentations, but of all the relatives of the dead and wounded, Donna Isabel took her be reavement hardest. Strange to say, she could not be comforted. Now, when It wns too late, Mie realized that she had overreached herself, having caused the death of the only two who knew the secret of the treasure. She remem bered, also, Sebastian's statement that even the deeds of patent for the land vere hidden with tho rest, where ten thousand men in ten thousund years could never find them. CHAPTER III. "The O'Reilly." Age nnd easy living hnd caused Don Mario de Custano, the sughr merchant, to take on weight. He hud, In truth, become so fat that he waddled like u penguin when ho wulked; and when he rode, the springs of his French vic toria gave up In despair. In disposition Don Mario was prac tical nnd unromnntlc; ho boasted that lie had never hud nn Illusion, never nn Interest outside of his business. And yet, on the day this story opens, this prosnlc personage, In spite of his bulg ing wulsthuud nnd his taut neckband, In spite of his short breath and his prickly heat, was In a very whirl of pleasurable excitement. Don Mnrlo, In fuct, suffered the greatest of all Illu sions: he was In love, nnd ho believed himself beloved. The object of, his adoration was little Hosa Varonn, the daughter of his one-time friend Este ban. To be sure, he had met Hosu only twice since her return from her Yankee schooV, but twice hud been enough; with prompt decision he hud resolved to do her tho honor of mnklng her his wife. Notwithstanding the rivulets of per- splrntlon thnt were coursing down every fold of his tlesh, nnd regnrdless of the fact that the body of his victoria was tipped nt a drunken angle, ns If struggling to escape tho burdens of his great weight, Don Mnrlo felt n Juuntl ness of body and of spirit almost like that of youth. Ho saw himself ns u splendid prluco riding toward the humble homo of some obscure maiden whom he hnd graciously chosen to be his mate. His nrrivnl threw Donna Isabel into n flutter; the woman could scarcely contain her curiosity when she cume to meet him, for bo was not tho sort of mnn to Inco'nvenlence himself by mere social visits. Their llrst formal greet ings over, Don Mnrlo surveyed the bnre living room nnd remarked, lugubri ously: "I see many changes here." "No doubt," the widow ngrecd. "Times have been hard since poor Es tebnn's death." "What a terrible calamity that was I I shudder when I think of It," said he. "A shocking nffulr, truly I and one I shall never get out of my mind." "Shocking, yes. Hut whnt do you think of a rich man, like Esteban, who would leave his family destitute? Who would die without revealing the plnce where he had stored his treasure?" Donnn Isabel, It wns plain, felt her wrongs keenly; she spoke with ui much spirit us If her hushnnd had permitted himself to bo killed purely out of spite toward her. "As if It were not enough to lose thnt treusure," the widow continued, stormlly, "the government must free r: tn3 1 vKSm- I W The Slave Leaped at Esteban, Struck, Once. and nil our slaves. Tsel Tse! And now that there Is no longer a profit In sugar, my plantations " "No profit In sugar? What are you saying?" queried the cnller. "If your crops do not pay, then Pancho Cueto Is cheating you. Get rid of him. But I didn't come hero to talk about Este bnn's hidden treusure, nor his planta tions, nor Pancho Cueto. I came here to talk about your step-daughter, Rosa." "So?" Donna Isabel looked up quickly. "She Interests me. She Is more beau tiful than the sturs." Don Mnrlo rolled his eyes towurd the high ceiling, which, like the sky, was tinted a vivid ceru lenn blue. "She Is now eighteen," the fat suitor went on, ecstntlcully, "and so alto gether charming But why waste time In pretty speeches? I have de cided to marry her." "Kosu hns n will of her own," guard edly ventured the stepmother. Don Mnrlo broke out, testily: "Nat urally; so have we all. Now let us speak plainly. You know me. I nin a person of Importance. I nm rich enouch to nfford whut I wnnt. nnd I pay well. You understand? Well, then, you nre Rosa's guardian nnd you cun bend her to your desires." "If that-were only so I" .exclaimed the woinnn. "She nnd Esteban what children! What tempers Just llko their fnther's! They were to be their father's heirs, you know, nnd they blame me for his death, for our pov erty, and for nil the other misfortunes that have overtaken us. We live like cuts and dogs." Don Mario had been drumming his fat lingers Impatiently upon the arm of his chulr. Now lie exclaimed: "Your pardon, senora, but I am Just now very little Interested In your do mestic relntlons. What you say about Rosa only mnkes me more enger, for I loathe a sleepy woman. Now tell me, ls s)u Has she any affairs of the heart?" "N-no, unless perhaps n flirtation with thnt young American, Juan O'Reilly." Donna Isabel gave the name Its Spanish pronunciation of "O'Rnll- ye." "Juan O'Reilly? O'Reilly? Oh, yes I But whut hns he to offer a woman? Ho ls little more than a clerk." "That Is what I tell her. Oh, It hasn't gone far as yet." 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