“Good!” exclaimed Gale exultantly. “Now, see here: I’m going to give you a chance to make some easy money. I’ve got several more of these letters here, and I want them translated. I understand enough Spanish to get an idea what they’re about, but I want a good translation. There’s ten dollars--American money--in it for you if you want to undertake the job.” President Felix’s former secretary nodded eagerly, and, taking a fountain pen and a notebook, which Gale handed him, rapidly wrote out an English translation of the correspondence. “Much obliged,” said Gale. “You’ll get the ten dollars in a couple of days--provided you keep quiet about it. I don’t want anybody to know about these letters just yet.” The next morning the New York _Daily News_ published on its front page a story which bore the following heading: “WIFE HEARS FROM MISSING PRESIDENT. “Francisco Felix, Fugitive President of Baracoa, Sends Wife Cheering Epistles From Gay Paree.--Weird Rumor Knocked On Head.--_Daily News_ Staff Correspondent at San Cristobal Unearths Interesting Correspondence Which Proves Absurdity of Charge that Felix Was Victim of Portiforo Conspiracy.” This, of course, did not escape the eagle eye of the New York correspondent of the San Cristobal _Herald_, whose chief duty was to go through each issue of the New York newspapers and pick out all stories which were likely to be of interest to the citizens of Baracoa. Thus it came about that five hours after that issue of the _Daily News_ appeared on the streets of New York, the first edition of the San Cristobal _Herald_, with the same story, under a New York date line, spread all over its front page, was selling like hot cakes in the streets of the capital of Baracoa. At about the same time a lengthy dispatch in cipher from the Baracoan consulate at New York arrived at the executive palace. It ended as follows: “Upon investigation, I have the honor to report that this morning’s article in the _News_, one of the most influential newspapers in the United States, has made a great impression upon the American people. There is already heard both here and in Washington considerable criticism of the President of the United States for having permitted a member of his cabinet to show such conspicuous friendship for the wife of Felix. Now that the woman’s guilty knowledge of her husband’s whereabouts has been proved, it is felt by the better class of citizens here, that the United States has been placed in an embarrassing position by the fact that while she was residing at the home of the United States attorney general she was in constant receipt of letters from the fugitive.