Some advised us to call on Wong Tung-ho, but we decided that it would be beter not to try for an interview, Ho dues not seem to be kept in any sort of confinement now, but is free to come and go us he bleares. He seems to spend part of his ti at his residence in the city, and part of i a temple among the hilly north of this town, When he was' first put under surveillance they sly that he came near worrying the life out of the District Magistrate who was ordered to watch him. He would dress like @ countryman and, putting on straw sandals, would walk to the yamen and present himself every morning at five o'clock. Having been a man of influence in the past, with no telling what potentilities for' the future the District Magistrate felt compelled to get up and dress to receive him, and this was kept up day after day until the poor unfortunate Magistrate was perfectly wild. He would beg Wong Tung-ho, ¢very morning, with tears in his eyes, to lot that visit suffice; but the great man' ssid "You have to report every day that Fam here and how can you certify that T have not run away unless you s me?" Finally the Magistrate ko towed and seemed go distressed that Wong Tung-ho grew surry for him and the visits ceased, 24th May.
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