o bring word and ask for help. A relief force had
been made up and sent at once. Lieutenant Day was among those who
volunteered to go, and had gone.

Ten days of horrible anxiety followed. Then word came that the
relief party had reached the post in time. The forces surrounding
the place had been scattered, and the post was safe. There had been
a sharp fight, though, and among those who had been badly wounded
was Lieutenant Day.

Of course he got well. No man could help it, with four such nurses
as Mrs. Allenthorne and Mrs. Allenthorne's daughter Grace, and Pedro
and Pedro's Visayan wife Anita.

Just what Grace told her mother, which led that worthy person to
become responsible for the young officer's recovery, no one ever
knew except the two women themselves, but in addition to being a
motherly-hearted woman, Mrs. Allenthorne was a soldier's daughter as
well as a soldier's wife, so perhaps it was not necessary to explain
so many things to her as it would have been to some people.

Nobody ever knew--or at least never told--what explanation the young
woman made to the Lieutenant, when he came back to consciousness
and found her helping to care for him. Perhaps she did not
explain. Possibly the explanations made themselves, or else none
were needed.

At any rate, the young man got well, and since then he has been
known to say--although this was in the strictest confidence to a very
particular person--that he should always regard the Visayan woman's
prayers before "Our Lady of Pilar" with the profoundest gratitude,
because the greatest blessing of his whole life had come to him
through this woman's praying for him outside the walls of the old fort.

A QUESTION OF TIME

"The native pilot who is to take the gunboat Utica around from Ilo Ilo
to Capiz is a traitor. I have just discovered indisputable proofs of
that fact. He has agreed to run the gunboat aground on a ledge near
one of the Gigantes Islands, on which a force of insurgents is to
be hidden, large enough to overpower the men on the gunboat in her
disabled condition. Do not let her leave Ilo Ilo until you have a
new pilot, and one you are sure of.

"Demauny."

Captain James Demauny, of the American army in the Philippine Islands,
folded the dispatch which he had just written, and sealed it. Then,
calling an orderly to him he said, "Send Sergeant Johnson to me."

Captain Demauny's company was then at Pasi, a small inland town in
the island of