hiking queen? Our girl is real quality. She's no common American.
She's a grandee's daughter. There's royal blood in her. By thunder,
gentlemen, she's blood kin to little Alfonso."

Teresa sought shelter from the curious though admiring eyes of the
fresh arrivals.

"I don't like these new soldiers," she complained to Graydon. "I
wish they had not come. They talk of this beautiful nurse and they
laugh at me. Oh, I wish I had something else to wear."

"Don't worry, little girl, you're worth ten nurses," said he.

"Alas, though I am dressed as a man, I do not feel as bold as one,"
she lamented.

The next day reinforcements came up and the whole command advanced
upon Tilad Pass, where Pilar, at last, had been cornered. On
the second of December a desperate conflict took place. Pilar was
intrenched in the Pass near the celebrated rock known as El Obispo
--"the Bishop." His resistance for a time was valorous and deadly.
Corporal Parry saw him mount his horse behind the barricade, six
hundred yards away. Parry was the best marksman in the regiment,
and turning to his chief officer, asked if he should take a shot
at him.

He fired and Pilar fell, face downward; and the Americans crushed
the little band of insurgents. Gregorio Del Pilar was dead. His
death in the great hills, after a most courageous battle against an
overwhelming force, brought to an end a life that would have been