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A Question of Time
A Question of Time (in Short Story Collection Vol. 024 )
"The native pilot who is to take the gunboat Utica around from Ilo Ilo
to Capiz is a traitor. I have just discovered indisputable proofs of
that fact. He has agreed to run the gunboat aground on a ledge near
one of the Gigantes Islands, on which a force of insurgents is to
be hidden, large enough to overpower the men on the gunboat in her
disabled condition. Do not let her leave Ilo Ilo until you have a
new pilot, and one you are sure of.
"Demauny."
Captain James Demauny, of the American army in the Philippine Islands,
folded the dispatch which he had just written, and sealed it. Then,
calling an orderly to him he said, "Send Sergeant Johnson to me."
Captain Demauny's company was then at Pasi, a small inland town in
the island of Panay. He had been dispatched by the American general
commanding at Ilo Ilo, the chief seaport of Panay, to march to
Capiz, a seaport town on the opposite side of the island, to assist
from the land side a small force of Americans besieged there by the
natives, while the gunboat Utica was to steam around the northeastern
promontory of the island and cooperate from the water side of the town,
in its relief.
The distance across the island was about fifty miles, while that
by water, by the route which the Utica must traverse, was about two
hundred miles. Captain Demauny, starting first, had covered half the
march laid out for him, without incident, until, halting at Pasi,
half way across the island and well up in the mountains, he had been
so fortunate as to obtain the information which he was about to send
back to the commander at Ilo Ilo. Panay had been, up to this time, one
of the most quiet islands in the group. He had met with no opposition
i
"The native pilot who is to take the gunboat Utica around from Ilo Ilo
to Capiz is a traitor. I have just discovered indisputable proofs of
that fact. He has agreed to run the gunboat aground on a ledge near
one of the Gigantes Islands, on which a force of insurgents is to
be hidden, large enough to overpower the men on the gunboat in her
disabled condition. Do not let her leave Ilo Ilo until you have a
new pilot, and one you are sure of.
"Demauny."
Captain James Demauny, of the American army in the Philippine Islands,
folded the dispatch which he had just written, and sealed it. Then,
calling an orderly to him he said, "Send Sergeant Johnson to me."
Captain Demauny's company was then at Pasi, a small inland town in
the island of Panay. He had been dispatched by the American general
commanding at Ilo Ilo, the chief seaport of Panay, to march to
Capiz, a seaport town on the opposite side of the island, to assist
from the land side a small force of Americans besieged there by the
natives, while the gunboat Utica was to steam around the northeastern
promontory of the island and cooperate from the water side of the town,
in its relief.
The distance across the island was about fifty miles, while that
by water, by the route which the Utica must traverse, was about two
hundred miles. Captain Demauny, starting first, had covered half the
march laid out for him, without incident, until, halting at Pasi,
half way across the island and well up in the mountains, he had been
so fortunate as to obtain the information which he was about to send
back to the commander at Ilo Ilo. Panay had been, up to this time, one
of the most quiet islands in the group. He had met with no opposition
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