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Updated: May 1, 2025
"I wish they had not come. They talk of this beautiful nurse and they laugh at me. Oh, I wish I had something else to wear." "Don't worry, little girl, you're worth ten nurses," said he. "Alas, though I am dressed as a man, I do not feel as bold as one," she lamented. The next day reinforcements came up and the whole command advanced upon Tilad Pass, where Pilar, at last, had been cornered.
Pilar was somewhere in the hills with his men, the pride of the insurgent forces; Aguinaldo's remnant had scurried off in another direction, and General Tono was on the coast with what was left of the scattered force. The net about Gregorio del Pilar was being drawn in and tightened. The closing week in November saw him driven to the last extremity. The tragedy of Tilad Pass was near at hand.
When the beautiful and mysterious nurse whose fame had gone up with the soldiers into Tilad Pass, arrived with others to take charge of the Red Cross hospital, on the day following the battle, she found the man she had been longing to see for many weary, heartsick months. She found him dying.
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