CHAPTER XXIV
IN WHICH MAGALANG IS TAKEN
"What do you think of this, Ben?" asked Gilbert, as he and his company came up.
"Those rebels mean business," answered the young captain. "They are evidently the cream of the Filipino sharpshooters."
"Perhaps they are the fellows you met when you were out with poor Gilmore."
"If they are, I sincerely hope we'll bag them," was the quick reply.
No more could be said, and a moment later Ben found himself at the end of the stone wall and close to the shed previously mentioned. The Filipinos had now ceased firing, and for the time being hardly a sound of any sort was to be heard in the vicinity, although there was a steady cracking of firearms in the vicinity of Magalang proper, showing that General MacArthur was pushing the attack with vigor.
Facing the field which the soldiers of the first battalion occupied was a small ditch, and opposite was an iron door, communicating with the stone shed.
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