field hospitals the men were taken to the convents and treated
until they were able to be moved to Manila.

Further north fled Aguinaldo and the Filipinos. Wheaton was ordered
to cut off his retreat; Young was killed; Cunningham took charge
of the scouts who scoured the country. Parties of ten or fifteen
picked men fell out in advance of the main body, seeking to
develop the enemy and his defences. These brave fellows attracted
the hidden fire of ambush, exposed themselves to all the treacheries
of warfare, and afterwards were mustered out with a kind word from
the department. They were the men who tested the territory. It was
with one of these scouting parties that Graydon Bansemer ventured
far into the enemy's country early in November.






CHAPTER XXII

THE CHASE OF PILAR





Gregorio Del Pilar, the picturesque Filipino leader, about whom
so much has been written in praise, by the war correspondents, was
leading his men back into the dangerfields, inviting the American