An immediate decision was made.

The honourable president told his family and the other women that they should remain in the settlement and allow themselves to be caught by the Americans, and he named Senors Sytiar and Paez to remain also, with the obligation of conducting the women to Manila.

As soon as the arrangement was effected, the honourable president prepared himself for the march.

The parting was a very sad one for himself and for his family.
"The honourable president left Talubin at 11 o'clock in the morning, his family and the other women remaining behind with two gentlemen charged with conducting them to Manila." [412] In this, as in all other similar cases, the women were kindly treated and safely conducted to their destination.

Aguinaldo and his fellows knew the happy fate of the members of his own family, as is shown by a later entry:-- "_February 6._--We have been informed that the mother and son of the honourable president are at Manila, living in the house of Don Benito Legarda, and that they reached that capital long before the wife and sister of the honourable president.