Even Homma, who had hidden his fluency in English from the Americans, wondered why Wainwright had not gone to Mindanao if he had no intention of surrendering all the forces in the Philippines. People noticed Wainwright putting more of his weight on the walking stick as if he would fall over without it. “General,” he heard Dooley say a few minutes after Homma’s departure, “you’ll have to arrange some way to accept his terms, or the blood of every one of those people on Corregidor will be on your head.”
