Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines

OR

Following the Flag against the Moros

By H. IRVING HANCOCK

Author of Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks, Uncle Sam's Boys on Field Duty, Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants, The Motor Boat Club Series, The Grammar School Boys Series, The High School Boys Series, The West Point Series, The Annapolis Series, The Young Engineers Series, etc., etc.

Illustrated

PHILADELPHIA

HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY

Copyright, 1912, by Howard E. Altemus

Frontispiece.

CONTENTS

Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines
The Filipino Dandy
A Meeting at the Nipa Barracks
Plotters Travel With the Flag
Cerverra's Innocent Shop
Enough to "Rattle" the Victim
Life Hangs on a Word
The Kind of Man Who Masters Others
The Right Man in the Guard House
News Comes of the Uprising
The Insult to the Flag
In the First Brush With Moros
The Brown Men at Bay—For How Long?
A Tale of Moro Blackmail
The Call for Midnight Courage
In a Cinch With Cold Steel
Datto Hakkut Makes a New Move
"Long" Green and Kelly Have Innings
Sentry Miggs Makes a Gruesome Find
Hal Turns the Gatling Gun Loose
Corporal Duxbridge's Mistake
Scouting in Deadly Earnest
Playing Goo-Goo in a Grim Game
Dooming the Datto
Conclusion

Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines

CHAPTER I

THE FILIPINO DANDY

"We've solved one problem at last, Noll," declared Sergeant Hal Overton seriously.

"Only one?" demanded young Sergeant Terry quizzically.

But Hal, becoming only the more serious, went on earnestly:

"At last we begin to understand just what the 'lure of the Orient' means! For years I've been reading about the Orient, and the way that this part of the world charms men and holds them. Now, that we are here on the spot, I begin to understand it all. Noll, my boy, the East is a great and wonderful place! I wonder if I shall ever tire of it?"

"I believe I could tire of it in time," remarked Sergeant Terry, of the Thirty-fourth United States Infantry.

"But you haven't yet," insisted Sergeant Hal.

"What, when we've been here only three days? Naturally I haven't. And, besides, all we've seen is Manila, and certainly Manila can't be more than one little jumping-off corner of the Orient that you're so enthusiastic about."

"You're wild about the Far East, too—even the one little corner of it that we've seen," retorted Sergeant Hal. "Don't be a grouch or a knocker, Noll. Own up that you wouldn't start for the United States to-morrow if you were offered double pay back in the home country."

"No; I wouldn't," confessed Sergeant Terry. "I want to see a lot more of these Philippine Islands before I go back to our own land."

"Just halt where you are and look about you," went on