Knowing nothing of the offered reward or the current rumours, the wretched man who had brought young Chuang to Hankow took him across to Wuchang. All day he searched for the aunt's house, which as it only existed in the imagination of his ward, he did not succeed in finding. Tired out he grew very angry with the lad and began to beat him, and in an evil moment tied his hands behind his back to prevent him running away,
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