In duc course word came from the capital that the body was in fact that of Lao Yang-jen and that his slayer shoul report to. the General in headquarters at Jucho Ting was promptly sent there a small "guard of honour" and rear expectations was led to the rem where the commander ws waiting to reward and thank him for his services. But as Ting stepped through the door the falmosphere seemed t> suddenly freeze. The standing man and the man in the chair simultaneously leaned forward staring at one another with wide eyes, while the face of each was transfigured, but by very diferent emotions." Finally the one word "YOU"!!! burst from the lips of the seated figure. Immediately afterwards Ting got his toward in {ull and his still dripping head was bore up in a cage as a warning toall who might be tempted to turn to banditry. "For the officer who had been commissioned to reward the slayer of Lao Yang-jen was the General he had so recently and grossly betrayed and who had, in the meantime, been transferred tat headquarters at Juchow.
There is one other episode whicté should be told as reflecting the ro putation Lao Yang-jen had obtain= ed for himself during the two short years of his amazing activity. the new-year season of 1924 the members of the local mission mob for a conference at Hsuchow, the midst of the proceedings a tele. Jgram was received from the Chi-Inese evangelist at Kaihsien whicks was interpreted to mean that the. bandits had taken that city, Kia-hsien is nearly 60 miles from Hau. chow, but such a distance was nos thing to Lao Yang-jen. The conference was adjourned without formality, Timetables were hastily consulted, and the first trains out the aries north ance south to Hankow, Peking, Tientsin. or other harbours of safety accord ing to their various preferences, was some days later that they learned for a certainty that the rai was over and the chieftain dead, and that they might return in safety to resume their interrupted work, Such was the healthy respect that, had been created even in the minult of the foreigners by Lao Yang-jen, the "Lightning Raider."
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