Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-09-25
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Sopyrtshted, 1900. by the J. B. Lipplncott Col
CHAPTER' XI.-CoNTINuED. i.
The three-century rule of CASTLE
and Aragon was ended. The yellow
ana red Of Spain were supplanted by
.ne scarlet, white and blue of Amer
!ca, and in new glory of it's own
o!d 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
reveille.
For long hours later there came
launches, bancas and cascoes from
fleet and shore. The debarkation of
the cavalry began in the afternoon.
they had left their horses at the
fresldlo, 5000 miles away, and we're
troopers only in name. The officers
who came as passengers got ashore
IN the course of the day and made
tne1r way to the Ayuntamiento to re-
port their arrival and receive their
assignments.
The Red Cross nurses looked in
vain for the hospital launch that. j.
was supposed, would hasten to con-
vey 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 and feminine,
who knew something of what battle
meant when American was pitted
against American, looked 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
he Santa Lucia, found himself trudg-
ing along at the head of his men un-
der massive walls nearly three CEN
turtles old, bristling with Anticipated,
highly ornamented Spanish guns, and
streaked with slime and vegetatio
while along the high parapets across
the moat thousands of Spanish SOL
sullen apathy.
Maidie's knight and champion in
deed! His duty called him with his
fellows to 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-
commodation could be found for him
ashore.
Under any other circumstances he
would have objected vehemently, but,
finding that the Red Cross contingent
was to share his fate, and that Miss
Ray was one of the dozen condemned
to remain, he bore his enforced lot
with Christian and soldierly resigna-
ton.
'Only," said DR.. Wells. lone would
suppose that the Red Cross was Ell
titled to some consideration, and
that all preparation would have been
made for our coming" 1t was neith-
er f1attering nor reassuring, nor, in
deed, was it kind, that they should
be so sighted, said the sisterhood
that evening; but worse still was in
store, for on the morrow, early, the
Esmeralda came steaming in from
Hong-Kong, where, despite her
roundabout voyage, the Belgic had
arrived before the slow-moving Sac
ramento had rounded the northern
point of Luzon, and on the deck of
the Esmeralda as she steered close
alongside the transport, and thence
on the unimpeded way to her moor
ings up the Pasig, in plain view of the
sisterhood, tall, gaunt, austere, but
triumphant, lowered the form of the
vice president of the Patriotic Daugh-
tiers of America.
For two days more the Sacramento
remained at anchor. in the bay over
a mile fr9m the mouth of the river,
md for two days and nights the Red
Cross remained aboard, unsough5,
nnsummoned from the shore. The
situation became more strained than
ever, the only betterment arising
from the fact that now there was
more space and the nurses were no
longer crowded three in room
Mrs. DR.. Wells moved into that re-
Gently vacated by the cavalry COM
mander, and Miss Ray and her now
earnest friend, Miss Porter, were re-
ieved by the desertion of their eld-
est sister, who preempted majors
stateroom on the upper deck.
Butt stirred up new trouble by
promptly coming to Miss Ray and
bidding her move out of that stufy
hole below and take Maj. Morton's
quarters, and bring Miss Porter with
her "if that was agreeable" 49,. .
It would have been, very, but
"Miss Rays head was level. as the
purser put it, and despite. the snippy
and exasperating conduct of-most of
the sisterhood, that wise young wom-
an pointed out to the shipmaster
that theirs was a semi-military or
ganization, and that the senior, Mrs.
DIR. Wells, and one or two veteran
nurses should have choice Of quar-
tiers.
By this time Miss Porter's vehe-
.ment championship of her charming
and much misjudged friend had ex-
cited no little rancor- against her
self. The more she proved that they
had done Miss Ray injustice, the less
they liked Miss Rays advocate. It
is odd but true that many woman
finds il. far easier to forgive another