The release of the three brothers came quite unexpectedly. The leader of the band called them into his presence one morning, and after expressing his annoyance at the statements in the vernacular papers in Peiping about the bad treatment of the foreign captives. he explained that as the only object of his band was resistance to the Japanese and as they had no quarrel with other foreigners, they could go back home. He warned them to cat a good meal, as they had a long way to go. That afternoon they left with an escort of 20 men through the hills, and marched all that night, until they entered the plain about 20 miles north of the Marist seminary, when the escort told them they were "free and returned into the hills, The three captives then made their way home on foot all by themselves across the plain without being interfered with in any way or without meeting any more bandits or a-single Japgnese soldier.
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