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

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ers and that nothing could impede their progress. This information had previously been conveyed to the Filipino general from other sources, so that Marie found him in his so-called congress packed up and ready to move,-a thing they were forced

and-go-seek, and anxious to find out about her mother and to get in

she suggested to her mother that they again go to her aunt's in the little town of Angono at the north end of Lake Laguna de Bay, where she had left her mother stationed when last they had parted. Her mother, growing old and nervous through accumulat

r its prosecution and by distributing among the native troops the inflammatory literature which was being promiscuously sent out by t

hat the Filipinos were assembling in large numbers under one of their fearless leaders, General Geronemo, on the San Mateo river,

gono and made her way to the Filipinos' camp along the San Mateo river, only a few miles south of wher

Geronemo, and she disclosed to him all the infor

under General Lawton, who was supposed to be away up in the northern part of Luzon, had anticipated his movements

t it and confirmed the offer. She told him all about her training as a marksman with the Spanish on Corregidor island and of her subsequent experience, and said

rectly in front of the center of the probable point of attack by the Americans, for M

se he appeared on the scene of battle. If she failed to hit him, the lieutenant was then to try

y, ready to charge on the Filipinos' position. The morning was bright and clear, so that General Lawton, with his

till the firing begins, so that I can shoot

ect. He made an ideal target. Marie took careful aim. "Bang!" went her rifle, and at that very moment this peerless leader of m

apped out Marie, "I told you I'd ge

f their beloved commander that they made a mad rush forward

Lawton a

y five minutes b

corporal for swearing to the lie, he proved it. Meager reports of the affair state that only $7000 of the money was actually paid over. Like Aguinaldo who crept into a cave northwest