"Restored to consciousness again, we.were up and away as fast as we could go with the soldiers hard pressing us and not far behind. At the bottom of this hill we came" upon a small stream but they were unwilling to stop as the soldiers were so close. I said that they must give me as much water as I wanted as I was faint and thirsty, otherwise I would dismount and not go on at all. When they saw I was determined they consented, in spite of the fact that the bullets were flying around us. Much refreshed we proceeded on our way, one of the men here asserting that for his sins he was eating this bitterness and like the friends of Job suggested that I must be suffering for the same reason.
"All through the day of October 26, Miss Sharp and I were separated for the second time since we left Sihwa. This caused me some very real anxiety.' Miss Sharp also telling of this day's experience said, "Indeed, the day Was a very terrible one for us "both. After getting through the stream at daybreak, I was forced to go on through all the agony of the day's march or rather flight on foot and without shoes. There were men in the party who were mounted but not one of them would give me his horse: on, on, ever on, with my feet full of thorns the brigands never let me get behind, but urged and pushed and pulled me on with them. Towards night Chen, the ex-Japanese student, caught up with us and forced one of the mounted brigands to give me his horse. This he did very sullenly and for the rest of the day, I was mount-
"Late that night we were reunited in a mounted village from which most of the people had fled. An old woman was found to get us some food of which we partook, though without any appetite as it was course and unpalatable native macaroni. Seeing us thus unable to take the food one of our captors, a kindly youth, whispered, 'Eat, foreigner, eat, as we must go on the march again; the soldiers are only a half a mile from us.'
"We both protested and said that we could not walk another step that night. Fan came to the decor and promised us horses but I said that my feet were very sore and that I had no shoes. He promised that he would buy me shoes on the morrow buf that we must go on again that night. Thus we were put on horses again and went forward for about a mile when we were met*by three
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