We had received no consular advice to leave our post, and our mission authorities having eft ts free to decide in view of Jocal conditions, we deliberately chose to stay. Te did not seem soldierlike to run away just because others had been compelled to do. 80,80 stayed and have no regrets that we did' s0, not even when it seemed as though we had waited till every door was closed. Finally it became apparent that it was no longer practicable for us to remain. and the consideration that weighed with usin this decision was the all too evident strain that responsibility for our safety put upon our well wishers both in and out of the church, So considering the things of others, we accepted the way out \that way procured for us, Propagandists' Evil Work Before we left the city the insidious work of the propagandists "bot ing fruit in other ways inst ourselves andthe -new things being inaugurated Was filing many with apprehensions of worse times to follow. The night we left the city had been deeply stirred by the seizure and maltrentment of two gentlemen of the "old order" by Southern soldiers, little more than boys it was said.' They were dressed up, made to parade the streets and beaten, The former official was still in the city when we left, During our time of retirement we met members of hhis household and one felt. th predicament was even more carious than our own and they utterly lacked the comfort that brightened our darkest days. They marvelled that we had any smile Heft in us.
We are now on the str. Kink Wo Just passed the Kiangyin forts, But others will tell of our convoy down the Yangtze so I need not add farther,
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