Steel and Silver King) in such a manner as to secure

his financial support. At that time last night, just twenty-four hours ago, we thought the silver of the mine safe in the custom-house vaults till the north- bound steamer came to take it away. And as long as the treasure flowed north, without a break, that utter sentimentalist, Holroyd, would not drop his idea of introducing, not only justice, industry, peace, to the benighted continents, but also that pet dream of his of a purer form of Christianity. Later on, the principal European really in Sulaco, the engineer-in - chief of the railway, came riding up the calle from the harbor, and was admitted to our conclave. Mean- time, the Junta of the Notables in the great sala was still deliberating; only, one of them had run out in the corridor to ask the servmt whether something to eat couldn't be sent in. The first words the engineer- in-chief said as he came into the boudoir were, 'What is your house, dear Mrs. Gould? A war hospital be- low, and apparently a restaurant above. I see them carrying trays full of good things into the sala.' "And here, in this boudoir,' I said, 'you behold the inner cabinet of the Occidental Republic that is to be.' " He was so preoccupied that he didn't smile at that; he didn't even look surprised. " He told us that he was attending to the general dis- positions for the defence of the railway property at the railway-yards when he was sent for to go into the railway telegraph - office. The engineer at the rail- head, at the foot of the mountains, wanted to talk to

him fmm his end of the wire. There was nobody in