In the latter part of September they conducted him on foot and without any consideration whatever to the capital of Isabela.

In this town he was at once placed in solitary confinement in one of the rooms of the _convento_ and allowed no intercourse with any one.

The sin for which they recriminated Piera was his having charged Dimas [283] with being a filibuster, and their revengefulness reached an incredible limit.

The heartrending moans of this martyr to his duty still resound in that _convento_ converted into the scene of an orgy of blood.

The unfortunate man was heard to shout: 'For God's sake, for God's sake, have pity,' and trustworthy persons tell that under the strain of torture he would challenge them to fight in a fair field by saying: 'I will fight alone against twenty of you;' but the cowardly torturers, a reproach to the Filipino race, looked upon it as an amusement to glut their spite on a defenceless man whose hands were tied.