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  The Woman with a Stone Heart

  A Romance of the Philippine War.

  By

  O. W. Coursey, (U. S. Vols.)

  Author of

  "History and Geography of the Philippine Islands." "Who's Who In South Dakota." "Biography of General Beadle." "School Law Digest."

  All of these books are published and for sale by THE EDUCATOR SUPPLY COMPANY Mitchell, South Dakota

  Copyrighted 1914

  By O. W. Coursey

  THE WOMAN WITH A STONE HEART

  INTRODUCTION

  To those whose love of adventure would cause them to plunge head-longinto an abyss of vain glory, hoping at life's sunset to reap aharvest contrary to the seed that were sown, let me suggest thatyou pause first to read the story of "The Woman With a Stone Heart,"Marie Sampalit, dare-devil of the Philippines.

  Perhaps we might profitably meditate for a few moments on the musingsof Whittier:

  "The tissue of the life to be We weave in colors all our own, And in the field of destiny We'll reap as we have sown."

  --The Author.

  DEDICATION

  To Her, who, as a bride of only eighteen months, stood broken-heartedon the depot platform and bade me a tearful farewell as our train ofsoldier boys started to war; who later, while I was Ten Thousand milesaway from home on soldier duty in the Philippine Islands, became aMother; and who, unfortunately, three months thereafter, was calledupon to lay our first-born, Oliver D. Coursey, into his snow-linedbaby tomb amid the bleak silence of a cold winter's night, with nostrong arm to bear her up in those awful hours of anguish and despair,

  My Soldier Wife, Julia,

  this book is most affectionately dedicated.

  "Only a baby's grave, Yet often we go and sit By the little stone, And thank God to own, We are nearer heaven for it."

  --O. W. Coursey.

  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  Page

  Marie Sampalit 10 Region Around Manila Bay 29 Admiral Dewey 39 Aguinaldo 61 Marie, Her Mother, etc. 82 Filipinos at Breakfast 100 End of the Boat-Battle 113 The Rescue 126 Floating Down The Rapids 129 General Lawton and Staff 139

  TABLE OF CONTENTS

  Chapters: Page

  I. Love Defeated 9 II. First Shot of A New War 25 III. Avenged Her Lover's Death 41 IV. The Interval 57 V. Filipino Uprising 69 VI. As A Spy 81 VII. Off For Baler 93 VIII. The Gilmore Incident 105 IX. The American Prisoners 113 X. Death of General Lawton 131 XI. North-bound 141 XII. Crossing the Sierra Madres 153 XIII. Compensation 167