1909:
Published by C. L. PHIFER
Girard, Kansas
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CHARACTERS.
- Judge Benjamin Daft, American Governor.
- Admiral Rainey, Conqueror of the Philippines.
- Camillo Saguanaldo, Insurgent General and President.
- Bishop Lonzello, the Friar.
- Ambrosia Lonzello, the Friar’s Daughter.
- Rodriguez Violeta, the Papal Nuncio.
- Mrs. Rizal, widow of a Filipino Patriot.
- Maximo Voliva, Leader of a Schism.
Time—1898–1899. Place—Manila andVicinity. [5]
JUST A WORD.
This is a story founded on truth. Practicallyevery incident told about really happened; yet some liberty has beentaken with the arrangements of these incidents into a story. Events aresometimes grouped outside of their natural order and place ofoccurrence, and the time of action is shortened. Conversation isnecessarily invented, and is used to bring out the setting of the storyand give it life. Another thing: Every writer recognizes that it isdesirable to not have too many characters in a story, and to not dragit through unimportant incidents. Therefore, I have omitted manyincidents of the occupation of the Philippines, and have in placesascribed to one person, in an effort to keep down the number ofcharacters, acts which properly belonged to other persons, so that someof the characters are representative and composite. To illustrate mymeaning—that a love story in the simplest form might run throughthe tale I have made Saguanaldo appear as a lover as well as a general,though this is acknowledged to be fiction. In other places I have onecharacter doing a work that was really done by a different person; butit would have been difficult and confusing to use all the actors in thestirring drama or to refer to all the many incidents. This shorteningof the period of action, and this combini