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                             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




[Illustration: "_The subsequent walk across the plaza with the hard-won
bundle, beneath the appreciative eyes of the whole town, had been
humiliating_"]




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 MANANGETE                         257

     XII. THE PAST                              267

    XIII. THE PREROGATIVE                       277

     XIV. THE CONFLUENCE                        289

      XV.