Immediately after the bandits had left, the alarm was given by the personnel of the mission through the discharge of fire-crackers, and within half an hour, about three hundred Red Spears had. gathered in the mission. This motey troop set out on the trail with a great deal of shouting. The only result was to cause the bandits make the more haste.
After running for some distance, Monsignor Froewis's feet became so bruised and he had become so exhausted, that the bandits were fore ed to support him from either side and to push him in order to make headway.
Monsignor Froowis is now 64, and of corpulent build. The night on which he was captured was intense. ly hot; but fearing detection the Vandits showed not the least pity for their aged jctim. They paused several
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