They were all very anxious to get the details of the affair from
Archie, but he was shrewd enough not to tell them anything of value.
And the other correspondent of the Enterprise in Manila insisted that
Archie should send a cable message describing the affair, as well as a
written account, and this he finally consented to do. The
correspondent added a long account of Archie's personal bravery, how
he had been wounded, and how he had ridden back to Manila at the head
of the column. Archie would have been very much embarrassed had he
known this, for he was still modest, but the first thing he knew of it
was from a letter he received a few weeks later from Mr. Van Bunting,
congratulating him on what he had accomplished, and telling him that
he had long since more than earned his six hundred dollars. But for
weeks he was ignorant that any one in New York knew of his being
wounded.
The days now began to pass as before in the camp at Manila. The wound
in Archie's arm was healing slowly, but he was hardly able to use that
member for a month or six weeks. Bill Hickson did not fare so well. He
lay for weeks on his cot in the hospital building, and was hardly
strong enough, for awhile, to talk. He was improving slowly, but the
doctors said it might be two months before he was able to walk about
and take his former active part in the campaign against the
insurgents.
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