iving, 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 Presidio, six thousand miles away, and were
troopers only in name. The officers who came as passengers got ashore in
the course of the day and made their way to the Ayuntamiento to report
their arrival and receive their assignments.

The Red Cross nurses looked in vain for the hospital launch that, it was
supposed, would hasten to convey them to comfortable quarters adjoining
the sick-wards or convalescent camps. They listened with the deepest
interest to the description of the assault of the 13th 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 de Santa Lucia, found himself trudging
along at the head of his men under massive walls nearly three centuries
old, bristling with antiquated, highly ornamented Spanish guns, and
streaked with slime and vegetation, while along the high parapets across
the moat thousands of Spanish soldiers squatted and stared at them in
sullen apathy.

Maidie's knight and champion indeed! His duty called him with his
fellows to a far-away suburb up the Pasig River. Her duty held her to
await the movements of the sisterhood, and what she might lack for
sympathy among them was made up in manifest yet embarrassing interest on
part of the tall young aide-de-camp, for Stuyvesant was bidden to remain
aboard ship until suitable accommodation 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 resignation.

"Only," said Dr. Wells, "one would suppose that the Red Cross was
entitled to some consideration, and that all preparation would have been
made for our coming." It was neither flattering nor reassuring, nor,
indeed, was it kind, that they should be so slighted, said the