Mr. Lo's voice, eloquent in its very} steadiness, went on, Me. Hanna, sill without comment, interpreting.
"They stripped Mr. and Mrs. Stam. They drove them naked through the rests, shouting their. invitation to the vlliagere. "See the foreigners dle! Come! Watch the foreigners die! Ava the villagers, terrified out of their Wits, dared not. disobey. They fol owed, Then the Red officer stood up and harangued. the mob of soldiers and villagers.
"ithe foreigners have ruined China." he raved. "Tiwey. come to. enslave China by building roads. They come drain her resources, her money. Worst of all, they are the friends of Chang Kai-shek." He is the greatest enemy of China. Whoever "is. his friend must be killed. The foreigners will die for their crimes and because he is their friend."
Christian's Courage v-rman it was that Chang, a Chris-Han shop-keeper, broke fromthe: crowed and threw himself on his knees Sefore the officer, He: begged. He pleaded, not for his life, bat for the! lives of, the foreigners." The Red officer struck at him to make Aim cease, but Chang only begged the more. In a towering rage, the affeer ordered him to be bound and talien sway, We think that he, 1, Ig dead. Mr. Stem tried 40 sped, and in blind fury, the officer whipped out knife Mr. Stam fell instantly, and his wife knelt for amement beside him before she toppled across-his body. In that second, a youth of no more than 16, wielding a double-handed sword, leaped from the band and brougni his' sword down across her neck severing the head, except for the heavy cords of the shoulder muscles.
"Only the next day, Sunday, did 1 hear rumours of two forelimers being killed. T hurried down from the hills to find the Reds gone, in cleared space, the bodies. of Mr.
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