Barton County democrat., 1901-10-18
CHAPTER xI.-CoNr1NuEp.

CHAPTER XI.-CoNTINUED.
The three-century rule of CASTLE
and Aragon was ended. The yellow
and red of Spain were supplanted by
the scarlet, white and blue of Amer
ica, and in new glory of it's own
"Old Glory" unfolded to the family
rising breeze, and all along the curv-
ing shore and over the placid waters
rang out the joyous, life-giving,
heart-stirring notes of the Yankee
Eeveille.
For long hours later there came
launches, bancas and cascoes from
deet and shore. The debarkation of
the cavalry began in the afternoon.
They had left their horses at the
Presidio, 5000 miles away, and were
troopers only in name. The officers
who came as passengers got ashore
IN the course of the day and made
their way to the Ayuntamiento te re-
port their arrival and receive their
assignments.
The Red Cross nurses looked in
vain for the hospital launch that, it
was supposed, would hasten to con-
yey them to comfortable quarters adj
joining the sick wards or convalescent
camps. They listened with the deep
est interest to the description of the
assault of the 18th of August that
made Merritt master of Manila, and
the elders, masculine oand feminine,
who knew something of what battle
meant when American was pitted
against American, lookSd at each
, other in wonderment as they heard
how much had been won at cost of
so little.
Sandy Ray, kissing Marion good-by
and promising to see Stuyvesant in
the near future, went over the side
with his troop and, landing at the
stone dock at the foot of the Paseo
de Santa Lucia, found himself trudg-
ing along at the head of his men un-
der massive walls nearly three CEN
turies old, bristling with antiquated,
@ highly ornamented Spanish guns, and
sereaked with slime and vegetation,
while along the high parapets across
the emoat thousands of Spanish SOL
diers squatted and stared at them in
sullen apathy. o
Maidie's knight and champion in
deed! His duty called him with his
fellows to a far-away suburb up the
Pasig river. Her duty held her to
await the movements of the sister
hood, and what she might lack for
sympathy among them was made up
in manifest yet embarrassing inter
est on part of the tall young aide-de-
camp, for Stuyvesant was hidden to
remain aboard, ship until suitable ac-
eommodation could be found for him
ashore.
Under any other circumstances he
~, h w, hut
finding that the Red Cross contingent
was to share his fate, and thatoMiss
Ray was one of the dozen condemned
to remain. he bore his enforced lot
with Christian and soldierly resigna
ton.
"Only," said DIR. Wells, zone would
suppose that the Red Cross was en-
titled to some consideration, anG
that all preparation would have beer
made for our coming" It was Meth
er fiattering nor reassuring, nor, in
deed, was it kind, that they should
be so sighted, said the sisterhoot
shat evening; but worse still was il
store, for on the morrow, early, the
Esmeralda came steaming in frc-l
Hong-Kong, where, despite hel
roundabout voyage, the Belgic has
arrived before the slow-moving Sac
ramento had rounded the northern
point of Luzon, and on the deck O.
the Esmeralda as she steered clos,
alongside the transport, and theme.
on the unimpeded way to her moor
ings up the Pasig, in plain view of tn
sisterhood, tall, gaunt, austere, bu
triumphant. lowered the form eof tn
vice president of the Patriotic Daugh
ters of America.
For two days more the Sacrament
remained at anchor in the bay owe
q mile from the mouth of the river
and for two days and nights the Re
Cross remained aboard. unsough'
unsummoned from the shore. Th
situation became more strained tha
ever, the only betterment arisln
from the fact that now there wa
more space and the nurses were n
longer crowded three in room
Mrs DIR. Wells moved into that n
gently vacated By the cavalry con