There she was down on the! ground. Just before the light had been extinguished one of those fiends let loose had struck al murderous blow at her with coolie pole and striking her on the [side of the head over the left ey thad felled her to the ground. The brutal blow actively skull as X-ray examination has 'A second oF} two more and we all three must! have been battered to death but! cone faithful abt dog had stood between tis and the mob and they had given back the needed seconds to] [get the door swung open.
With a gip on her arm I helped wife to scramble out on hands and knees into the rod outside land, ox Miss Booth was nowhere to be seen, ws concluded that she! must have escaped ith the preacher nailier way, while Thad rushed back to the house to fetch the other! two ladies, 'As we subsequently discovered, Jour cook had helped to hide her i the thick bamboo bushes and so' undoubtedly saved her life, the Crinose Indy helper being with her, too, al right, end keeping her end.
When we were once outside 1 pulled the heavy gate to, after us, our front gate. We held|and in the larkness the. mob did] ming prayer not know which way we had gone. meeting at which there was a great|This gave us the margin of time, fooling of relief at having parse: l nood Miss Anderson ran_ along through the afternoon without in-ithe The Mob's Coming About 10.45 at night we retired to! bed. Twas not fully unilvessed but! my wife and Miss Anderson, who was spending the night at our house,! wore both ready for bed, wien our cook came to our door with a very terrified look on his fuze to tell as that the mob had come into the compound! We instantly knocked Mise Anderson and the Indies scrambled into what clothes they could hastily pat on while I went out into the passage way tha: Separates our house from that of Miss Booth, the Women's Auxil Worker at our station, I found Miss Booth stundin garden with the small gis] she has adopted in her arms, aad another Chinese helper standing by. The preacher who had given us) warning of the approach of the mob was there and we went down gate with the intention Miss Booth off with preacher into the country.
However, when we got {othe gate voices and lights on the other side of the wall made wx the mob were also at the 0 leaving
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