Passing the open school gate and! j.ecing tome Chines> there who told) us to go quickly, I called quietly'
find if Miss Booth were thers av1_we coneladed that she had ale ready got cut by thet exit as got no response.
We turned as soon as we could into the darkened. falda and, reese. that Wwe had exiled in' daylight a few days before, we made) our way between voiding houses, and actes muddy Tittle banks, across. thi lave water until we seemed to have off the mob, Looking jack we could see what Jwe thought was the light of our houses burning and sinking down now and then for rest and then once again eagerly pushing forward we: tried to put as great a distance as! preacher I humed back to collect we possibly could between us and tp the other two ladies, They were jour would-be murderers. teen randy and we were eat 0s the for of our house and runing dawn the paucog way when the mob burs In'by the ate which leads from ths Hospital Compound to our houses.
"The leaders of the mab saw ws we made for the back rate ant oenved tha pate tws te Sampson my beck from half rica hurled "with al their might mee feel certain that the mob frere. out for nothing short "of Our good old dog "Pongo" refused to be left behind and we had not none far when we were cheered by, th sound of the patter of feet and a great comfort he proved to jus during our subsequent adventures.
We had an electric torch with which proved of the utmost service and when the road was steep lor muddy, or lost altogether in the darkness a flash of the torch gave them across a long and very muddy bank, right across an arm of the lake.' We passed a hut where some fishermen were awake watching their boats, but made no sound and passed them without attracting their Sttention. We next saw a Light and thinking we might, by new, fately light our lantern we mai {for the straw hut from which the Tight of the lamp was. streaming, {in order that we might beg a match.
When we got within speaking distance of the occupants of the hut] we caused more consternation than we had reckoned on, as seeing three strange figures looming through the darkness they took us to be ghosts and two out of the three occupants fof the hut took to their heels and ed! I called out to reassure the tone man left and he came, in a great state of fright, towards us. We found to our dismay that our lamp wick had vanished into the interior of the lamp and could not be fished out so we got the man to ead us a little way along the road to Hsia Lu, The Despair of Flight He soon said he must return, but before he left I got him to point ut, as accurately as he could, the direction of Hsia Lu and Shikhuiyeo fand fixing the pole star and relating the points on the horizon to w Ihe. pointed we thanked our guide Jand started out along the roads and fever fields and up and down steep banks "guided by' a star."
The number of times we stumbled land fil, and the weariness of it ell and how our dog lay down tired love and condemning all aggressive out and could hardly drag himself along, how at times we paused to|admit no aristocracy but an aristo-Tisten' leat we should stumble into legacy of character, and to whom the path of those returning from the orgy of destruction at Tayeh and how as the night wore on 1 went to inquire from a cottage here and there, where a light showed. only to be turned away with scanty, show of regard, would all take long chapter in this history to tel whom we had been hoping. Knocking. Jat his doct he immediately took us Ju, and one could tell how utterly heart-sick he was at the way we had Doon treated. He and his friends told us not to go on to isinla as hundreds of the Kuomin-. tang people had come up from Shih-hui yao on. the railway and were going back that day. He said ho would find a safe way of getting us way and we hada cup of bot water and g sesame. seed expo at his house and rested awhile. had never met him before but he treated os like real friends.
"The Good Samaritans we started off in the early on a walk of about eight 10 the water's edge. Our good jftiend took us into a house of a house of a relative of his and gave us a breakfast of boiled swoe: potatoes. Wo next went on to the lake side and our friend bought chicken and called us a small beat and bought us some eggs and rice. These purchases took almost all our scanty stock of money but. we arranged with the boatman to get us another boat on the Yangtze at Weiyuankon when we hoped to make cither for Wusueh or Kio-
Kiang, where we woold find friende us a leading as to the right roail|to For me to ect out the key and to take.
All that day we wore Lying in the! unlock the gate and of fe tnvolted Our sim was to get a boat, bottom of the little boat Miss trid pushed! open all of ures Usk this were in any way possible, and {Anderson got some sleep but neither for seconds. which allowed the got out across the lake and so my wife nor I did. At night we Jaaders of the maby three viainons Teaving the Indies with Pongo tied up at the lake end at Wei-Tellowe ated with evolve bein to close attendance I went forward to yoankon and in a short time our boatman came back with the news emo up with use oatly til Miss Anderson ts extinguish. the try and find some friendly soul who would pos: ly let us lie in their that everything was ready for us lamp the. ws hot dog ard getting house ad secure ne a boat. and he had engaged a man willing'
nrourh the door out in'fo the! However, riy frat attempt to to go to Wusueh or Kiukiang. We Fond outside T nant called' to my" knock anyone vp only" secured lad chosen to go down stream 2s)
but no response came. "With blank refteal to" do" anything being quicker than trying to make iting heart T'ealted extin end um; ence more T went back a our way up stream. that call just awakened. sufficient found the two ladies in the darkness We transferred to the new boat consciousness in her for hor to feel and we pushed on over the mud! which was larger than our little that she must reply and keep hold flats near the margin of the lake. boat and were just settling down
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