I said to the awner of the house, "We will go back to the city in broad daylight, and then yeo, will not be implicated." He would not hear of it, He and our cook and helper were busy planning,.and the outcome of it was that we with our belongings in the middle of the night moved into an outhouse in the nearest village. fen were! carrying big mud bricks, and making & wall dividing the house. We sat down on a heap of straw and waited. When the wall was high enough, we stepped inside and the men continued. their work. When the last brick shut us in I felt] like Jonah, the earth with her bars closed behind me for ever.
We thought we would be suf-located, but found when we sat down on the ground there was air enough. The place was so small that we could not beth lie down, one had to sit leaning against bedding. There was no window and we could not use any lamp. By the light through cracks in the wall, I read the portion for the Gay. "We have. this treasure in earthen vessels;—we are troubled fon every side yet. not distressed; perplexed, but not in despair; per-Secited, yet not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed." lite and. too days we spent in this place; after that it was not thought safe. In the middle of the night (on the 4th) our helper and our cook opened our prison, and we prepared to flee. My companion dressed as a Chinese woman, and I wore a man's dress.
The Flight by Night We walked out. in the darkness empty-handed. I only saved a Bible fund my accounts, It was a perilous and dreary walk along the folds the dark, and I fell into ditches about twenty times, vixen the day dawned.
getting to an outstation 25 "i" away. A Christian had come to meet es and lead the way over hills. We got there in safety, had 8 meal, and lay down to rest.' 'The man who met us said we could not go further that day, as the road was watched. The cook and helper returned to our hiding place, to try' and save our bedding, and' a few other things, but the Lord willed it otherwise." About 6 in the afternoon they setumned saying, "You mist hurry off at once." The Communists had come to search the village where we had deen in hiding, caught our cook's wife, had beaten her till she had to confess Where we were. We found two men who were willing to escort us on our way in the dark, We came to the place which was said to be in the hands of Red soldiers, but they had left that very day. Feeling our way with our sticks we walked on for some hours, and spent the night in a village, continuing our wall: at daybreak, About '9 am. we reached' u place at the riverside! where we usually get boats, but none were to be seen. We stopped Yor breakfast and rest, As we sat eating, a little boy rom the outstation where we had pent the previous day arrived,—My father is taken by Communists, our home searched, and our things! carried away. Sixteen men came to take you a short time after you nad gone." While we were eating, shots were heard, but the people Gid not think it dangerous, buf, no more breakfast, we hurried on as fast ae we could. Shooting was heard behind us the first 10 "i"
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