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32 Strictly Business
is war and politics? This spot is one paradise. My
counter it have other brave heroes to continue the fight-
ing. What to me should be glory and the shooting of
nmans? Ah! no. It is here I have found one angel. Let
us buy the lHotel Espafiol and you shall be mine, and the
IIoner shall not be wa;te on guns."
Mrs. ()'Brien rested her blond pompadour against the
shoulder of the Colombian patliot.
"()h, senior," slihe sighed, happily, "ain't you terrible!"
Two days later was the time appointed for the delivery
of the arms to the General. The boxes of supposed rifles
were stacked in the rented warehouse, and the Secretary
of War sat upon them, waiting for his friend Kelley to
fetch the victim.
Mr. Kelley hurried, at the hour, to the Hotel Espafiol.
IIe found the General behind the desk adding up accounts.
"I have decide," said the General, "to buy not guns.
I have to-day buy the insides of this hotel, and there shall
be nrrla'ying of the General Perrico Ximenes Villablanca
Falcon willh la Madame O'Brien."
Mr. Kelley almost strangled.
"Say, you old bald-headed bottle of shoe polish," he
spuflltered. "you're a swindler --that's what you are!
You've bought a boarding house with money belonging
to your infernal country, wherever it is."
"Ah," said the General, footing up a column, "that is
what you call polities. War and revolution they are not71e L I
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