Little Lo, upon his escape from the school, had gone to the house of a schoolmate where he had been secreted for a night. The following day he had escaped from the city: by the Peking-SMukden way, paying his way as for he could and then Possible without paying. A days later, the commandant of the Luanchow garrison, having some reason to visit the railway station, found a well dressed small boy lying on the station platform famished and exhausted. He had the youth taken to his headquarters, where a good sleep and several good meals soon restored the youngster normal. The Brigadier General suspected from his clothes and speech that he was a runaway, but could elicit no confession from him, and win his confidence. He, therefore, got him an orderly's uniform to fit, supplied him with a small sword and let him understand that he was row an officer in the Chinese army. Through good treatment and adroit questioning he finally learned who the boy was
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