To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cura Dany New Sin—I read with much interest the story in your to-day's issue which appears under the title "Priest of Tun Zu Country." 1 can add a fow Actas to ik, heard: the story 9 good many years ago from a man who knew that part of China well and who. also knew Forrest, the Dolanist whom he described solid, serious, almost dour indivi dual, the Jast_ kind of man to be suspected of seeing. "ghosts.
The details of the story which 1 remember were that Forrest, after wandering for several days in the hills, had. sunk exhausted to rest.
litle Lodge on the mountainside. We had been there but a few minutes when the brushwood parted and a child looked through at him, paused 'a moment and then turned and rushed away. With a groan Forrest got to his fect, knowing that his presence would be reported to pos sibly hostile villagers, Looking round in despair for some way out from his refuge which would lead him away from the direction in which the child had gone, he saw standing looking at him the French Father whom he had seen murdered at Tun "The Father beckoned to him and. rot pausing to wonder how a, mai whom he had last seen dead should be standing alive before him, he blundered after him through' the undergrowth along a tiny—track which would otherwise have scaped his notice, In a few minutes a turn the path brought in sight a cottage. The Father had disappeared, but a woman was hoeing In her vegetable patch outside the cottage.
her Forrest addressed himself, and the striking thing Is that though '—dishevelled and hageurd as he was She must have seemed a suMclentiy wild and terrifying apparition to her who had never before seen a fore eigner, she listened to him, Jed him into a'shed, hid him tbohind a wood pile and brought him food. In a short time excited voices announced the arrival of searchers aroused ax Forrest knew they would who had hey talked with the bhut evidently found her answers satisfactory for they passed fon. Later. the woman's lisbond arrived. She told him the story and hho put Forrest safely on the way the' Burma. frontier.
Forrest was very chary of telling his story the which Is tnderstand= ible. T told it once to a clergyman "England. He sucked at his pipe reflectively for a fow moments He must have been lightheaded saw the hat a ver kind of Tightheadedness, thought Lane Syn Shanghai, Dee. 20,
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