"America will see you have your rights. Arise," the admiral said, flipping a speck from his coat as he spoke. The insurgent leader reverently kissed the hand of the admiral, and, crying, "You will be hailed as the great emancipator," signaled to his attendants, and prepared to leave the flagship. Under Rainey's guns the company made its way to shore, not far from the old moat outside the city's walls, now overgrown with grasses and vegetation, which served for draining the outlying country. III. WON BY A WOMAN. As General Saguanaldo and his men drew to shore, a small English woman approached him from a clump of bamboos that grew near the shore, hiding the new city from sight. "What do you here, Madam Rizal?" asked Saguanaldo, bowing low. "You always bear important news." "I have a circular which Bishop Lonzello has been distributing throughout Luzon. Did you win a promise from the admiral to aid us in our struggle?" "He told me to go ahead and do the best I could against the Spaniards." "But no promise definitely to help us gain our independence?" "N-o, I can't say that he did." "Grant me permission, then, to lay this document before him. I am of his own race, and believe I can induce him to aid our cause." "Let me see the paper." Mrs. Rizal handed the paper to the insurgent general, and as he read stood gazing abstractedly over the water. She was yet a young woman, but her face revealed both sorrow and determination. She was the widow of the late insurgent, Dr. Rizal, who was the best educated and probably the most manly of all who had opposed the exactions of the friars in the interest of the native population. He had accomplished but very little, and only a short time before had been shot by the Spanish soldiery, at the instigation of Lonzello and others. The widow, after that event, seemed to have no object in life but to carry on the work her husband had begun, and became an invaluable aid to Saguanaldo. She grasped situations he could not understand. She advised with the good sense of a veteran. She went from place to place, singing, talking and encouraging. She was always active in the cause of Philippine independence, and no task, no privation, was so great as to deter her. But perhaps the service that most appealed to the Filipino leader came through her friendship with Ambrosia Lonzello. She managed that the aling [7] might meet her lover, and at the same time protected them from the friar, her father, so that he never suspected that his enemy was the lover of his daughter. "Go, and God bless you," said the insurgent, after he had finished reading the friar's address.