with him.

Secret plans were agreed upon whereby she was to become the colonel's
chief scout. Two Filipino soldiers were sent to accompany her old
mother to the little town of Angono on the eastern bank of Lake Laguna
de Bay, near its northern end. A native family, quite familiar with
the Sampalits and related to them, lived in this village. Marie stayed
with the troops in the field. Her young brain danced at the thought
of more bloodshed. She must be in the fight.

Just what part Marie took in the attack made upon the Americans by
the Filipinos on the night of February 4th, and in the fighting on
February 5th, the world will never know. The two main figures in
these operations were Colonel Miguel, in command of the main portion
of the Filipino forces, and Colonel Stotsenberg, who commanded the
1st Nebraska volunteers. Before the close of the war these men were
both shot; consequently, there is no one left to tell the story,
and history is silent on the point.

After the fight of February 4 and 5, the entire line of block-houses
and intrenchments circumscribing Manila, were in the hands of the
Americans. From the Pasig river on the east, around the city to the
bay on the north, this line was commanded by Major-General MacArthur;
the corresponding semi-circle on the south, by Major-General Anderson.

During the next seven weeks, fresh troops were constantly
arriving. Each side was preparing for the long, inevitable conflict.

At day break, on March 25, General MacArthur, leaving Hall's brigade
in the trenches and placing those of Otis and Hale on the firing line,
which was over seven miles in length, made a brilliant charge along
the entire front on the Filipinos' breastworks about a mile and a
half distant and constructed parallel to those of the Americans'.

Before night he had cut the Filipino army into hopeless fragments;
had advanced his own army over nine miles; had inflicted a terrible
loss upon Aguinaldo's troops; had demonstrated to them the difference
between a determined American advance and an irresolute Spanish one;
and had taken up in earnest the invasion of Luzon, the capture of
the Filipinos' temporary capital, Malolos, the overthrow of their
provisional government, and the establishment of American sovereignty
throughout the entire archipelago.

That night, about eleven o'clock, a nervous Filipino woman came walking
down along the American out-post reserves which, during actual war,
are usually