CHAPTER XXIV.
ONE WAY OF ENTERING A FORTIFIED CITY.
"Now where?" asked Dan, after we had halted and listened with all our ears to learn if we were being followed.
"To Manila, as was our original idea," I answered. "But you may not want to go that way," I added, to Matt Gory.
"Sure an' Oi'll go wid youse b'ys," answered the son of Erin, with a grin. "Oi'm afther makin' a soldier of forchune av meself, and he made a mocking bow at which both Dan and I laughed.
"We may be very useful to Longley in Manila" I continued. "He may be having more than his hands full to protect the firm's interests. He said he had about six thousand dollars in the big safe that he did not care to place in the Spanish bank, and"
"You are right, Oliver, we must get into Manila somehow, to help Longley, if for no other purpose. The thing of it is, which is the best way to do it?"
"Let us get as close to the city walls as we can
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