_ To those whose love of adventure would cause them to plunge head-long into an abyss of vain glory, hoping at life's sunset to reap a harvest contrary to the seed that were sown, let me suggest that you pause first to read the story of "The Woman With a Stone Heart," Marie Sampalit, dare-devil of the Philippines.
       Perhaps we might profitably meditate for a few moments on the musings of Whittier:
       "The tissue of the life to be
       We weave in colors all our own,
       And in the field of destiny
       We'll reap as we have sown."
       --The Author.
       DEDICATION
       To Her, who, as a bride of only eighteen months, stood broken-hearted on the depot platform and bade me a tearful farewell as our train of soldier boys started to war; who later, while I was Ten Thousand miles away from home on soldier duty in the Philippine Islands, became a Mother; and who, unfortunately, three months thereafter, was called upon to lay our first-born, Oliver D. Coursey, into his snow-lined baby tomb amid the bleak silence of a cold winter's night, with no strong arm to bear her up in those awful hours of anguish and despair,
       My Soldier Wife, Julia,
       this book is most affectionately dedicated.
       "Only a baby's grave,
       Yet often we go and sit
       By the little stone,
       And thank God to own,
       We are nearer heaven for it."
       --O. W. Coursey. _

Introduction
Chapter 1. Love Defeated
Chapter 2. First Shot Of A New War
Chapter 3. Avenged Her Lover's Death
Chapter 4. The Interval
Chapter 5. Filipino Uprising
Chapter 6. As A Spy
Chapter 7. Off For Baler
Chapter 8. The Gilmore Incident
Chapter 9. The American Prisoners
Chapter 10. Death Of General Lawton
Chapter 11. North-Bound
Chapter 12. Crossing The Sierra Madres
Chapter 13. Compensation