Mr. Wikholm was engaged to be married, and the lady who was to have been his wife was on the eve of starting for China, Going down in the s.8. Taiwo we had some letters to post, and one from him to her. We put it before Li Taotai and also another to the same address bearing the news of his death and the terrible nature of it. We told him the story, never think. ing but even he would feel its pitifulness, But no. It seemed to strike him as the funniest thing he had heard for a long time, and he leaned back in his chair with immoderate laughing. Yet all we have got to appeal to in our difficulties and dangers in China is the sense of justice and humanity which exists in a breast like that of Li Taotai. No wonder although the murdered corner in our churchyard is filling rapidly, and men cease to hope for justice.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.