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"Say," whispered Walt, as still a-tremble with excitement the lads listened to the departing trampling of the insurrectos' horses, "that was a decent thing for Harding to do." "The first decent thing, I imagine, that he ever did in his life," rejoined Jack. How the hours after that dragged themselves on, the boys never could recollect exactly.
Ramon Santos, terror of the Washington State Department and of a half dozen consulates in New York, stuck a pin in a map of Central America spread out on a table before Constance. "Insurrectos will meet us," he pursued, then added, "but we must have money, first, my dear Senora, plenty of money."
I had been little more than a month in Capiz when the rumor went abroad that a parao with forty insurrectos from Samar had landed at Panay, just east of us, and the occupants had scattered themselves out between Panay and Pontevedra. Pontevedra was supposed to be an insurrecto town, thirsting for American gore.
"Hoorah!" yelled Pete. "It ain't possible, is it, Buck, thet you've forgot Mister Peter de Peyster?" "What, Coyote Pete?" "That's me!" "Waal, you thundering old coyote, what air you doin' here?" "Gittin' chased by a bunch of the toughest insurrectos you ever clapped eyes on, and it's up ter you ter help us out," responded Pete.
The insurrectos were evidently worse than the Spaniards. They did all the things the Spaniards had done, and more they robbed through falsehood. Consequently, insurrectos frequently lost their heads. Major Marsh went through Bontoc close after Aguinaldo in December, 1899.
After a stroll through the city, during which he carefully used his eyes, Johnnie asked himself how the ill-drilled, ill-equipped, loosely organized Insurrectos could hope to overthrow so solid a power as this, backed as it seemed to be by unlimited means and unlimited armies of trained troops. It looked like a hopeless undertaking.
Leaning closer, he whispered, hoarsely: "It is cheaper to give him a fish than to have him steal a whole basketful. But he is a great liar. Even yet I'm not sure that he knows my Miguelito." "You have a son with the Insurrectos?" "Yes." The fisherman cast a furtive glance over his shoulder. "He is a traitor of the worst sort, and I don't approve of him, but he's a brave boy and he loves fighting.
Here, too, we heard from another Constabulary officer, that the insurrectos in 1898-1899 forced the Igorots to carry bells and other loot taken from the conventos and churches, and would shoot the cargadores if they stumbled or fell, or could go no farther under the weights they were carrying. Twenty-four hours later we steamed up Manila Bay. The trip was over. Future of the highlanders.
The Bontoc Igorot assisted the insurrectos in many ways when they first came. About 2 miles west of Bontoc is a Spanish rifle pit, and there the Spanish soldiers, now swelled to about 600 men, lay in wait for the insurrectos. There on two hilltops an historic sham battle occurred. The two forces were nearly a mile apart, and at that distance they exchanged rifle bullets three days.
To their unsuspecting minds, Bob Harding was a fellow-countryman in difficulty, and they treated him accordingly. "Phew!" remarked Harding, slipping his reins over his arm, and following Mr. Merrill within the stockade, "I had a tough time getting away from those insurrectos." The remark had just the effect he intended it should have. Mr. Merrill regarded him with astonishment.
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