The Woman with a Stone Heart / A Romance of the Philippine War

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ler river-as the town of Baler where the Spanish garrison was located is some two miles up the river from where it empties into the Pacific ocean, and the American troops were too greatly outnumbered by the Filipinos to make a land expedition safe,-she suggested to them the advisability of fortifying the river at spe

was very low at the time. This made it possible to dig ditches on the sand bars which extended far out into the stream; and by throwing into the river the loose sand ta

is surprise, he was cordially received by the Filipino officers; but their exceptionally good behavior and the twinkle of their eyes told onl

In a few minutes daylight broke forth and those left in the boat were discovered by the Filipino sentry who was walking his beat along the shore. He gave the alarm. Lieutenant Gilmore and his party could easily have pulle

tance. The water at this point was shallow. The boat got stuck in the mud. There was nothing to do but to fight. In a moment Morrisy fell

. They could see nothing to fire at, so perfectly had the Filipinos scre

more were slightly wounded. Most of the oars had been badly shattered by the enemy's rifle balls. In this moment of desperation, Ellsworth, Woodbury and Edwards jum

n's rifles. As he picked it up he noticed the lock had been struck by a Remington ball and

uck him in the fleshy part of the neck. He had never been under

came out of his arm pit. With his attention riveted o

nful wound in his scalp. "Mr. Gilmore, they've hit me again," he muttered,

nful parts of the body in which to get shot. This time, with a slight tremble in h

back from off their trench the limbs and underbrush that had concealed them, the Filipinos, arme

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