He was led away, A moment later the two were clambering in the "Black Maria" and began a long ride that they could not make out, closed in as they were from their surroundings. Through the Settlement sped the cumbersome machine, cut past the race track and son continuing through the French Con cession. Then along the hanks of a narrow stream fairly alive with the sampans of river dwellers all looking well covered with matting for the winter. Between them and the police patrol the rusty barbed wire reminiscent of a day not long past when deaths attracted little notice.
Around. the stream waurd the cortege, then straightened out past two French police, over a narrow bridge and carefully scrutinized by two soldiers of the Nationalist Gov-
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