Caybigan
BY JAMES HOPPER
NEW YORK
MCCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
MCMVI
Copyright, 1906 by
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
Published, September, 1906
Copyright, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, by The S. S. McClure Company
"The subsequent walk across the plaza with the hard-wonbundle, beneath the appreciative eyes of the whole town, had beenhumiliating"
CONTENTS
| I. | The Judgment of Man | 3 |
| II. | The Maestro of Balangilang | 27 |
| III. | Her Reading | 52 |
| IV. | The Struggles and Triumph of Isidro de los Maestros | 74 |
| V. | The Failure | 98 |
| VI. | Some Benevolent Assimilation | 124 |
| VII. | A Jest of the Gods | 153 |
| VIII. | The Coming of the Maestra | 178 |
| IX. | Caybigan | 202 |
| X. | The Capture of Papa Gato | 226 |
| XI. | The Mañangete | 257 |
| XII. | The Past | 267 |
| XIII. | The Prerogative | 277 |
| XIV. | The Confluence | 289 |
| XV. | The Call | 331 |
CAYBIGAN
I
THE JUDGMENT OF MAN
We were sitting around the big centre table in the sala of the "House ofGuests" in Ilo-Ilo. We were teachers from Occidental Negros. It was nearChristmas; we had left our stations for the holidays—the cholera hadjust swept them and the aftermath was not pleasant to contemplate—andso we were leani
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