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CRISTOBAL THE CATALAN.
BY WILLIAM DRYSDALE.
cell in the great Morro Castle of Havana was a strange place for a boyof fourteen; but there sat young Cristobal Nunez on the cold stonefloor, his face hidden in his hands, and bitter tears trickling betweenhis fingers. He was a small boy for fourteen, and not dark, like theCubans, but fair as any sunburnt American boy.
He was not alone in the cell, for it was a great damp vault twenty feetwide by a hundred feet long, with an arched roof of stone, the lowerpart of a storehouse standing just within the outer wall of thefortress. He was only one of the 108 political prisoners confined inthat unhealthy vault, where was not a cot for them to lie upon, nor achair or benc