Sforning brought us to a farm. house. They despatched one of their men {o a town to buy what food could for me. They planned on awaiting my recovery in this place ana told me that when T was able proceed they would take me to their leader. We spent ten days in this home. t noticed the farmer's wife frequently pleaded with the bandits to let me go, saying she knew the Tunghwa Shenfit was a good man, that he was always helping poor people when "they were "sick: but Mey replied that "their orders were! to Tain me to their leader and that they had no power to free me, Two days later the captain. roturned with another group of Afteen mien who, he told me, would take! me tv the leader as he himself had station. "T sighted the familiar eas Sock, which fold me that I was home, Unable to speak, 1 stumbled from the carriage and fell ume arms of Fathers O'Don Chinber. The authorities mie that they" had. preps the hospital, where they wished stay far ae fee whatever medical exuics. Two days wat turned ver to the" Amevican Conaul, wad taken tothe Mission and waleomed by Christian people, habe months amd ten date of my capture, to return to his territory. Here 1 noticed that the bandits who. had kidnapped me wore the plain clothes of the farmer "while the new. group rms. The latter also Iacked apparent consideration which the former had "shown me. Once moved on from sunset t0 dawn. "Much of thig trip was made through brooks and in snow waist deep. Often falling, breaking through the ice, stumbling in the dark over: ridges and through underbrush, we]
a deserted cabin the 30 les from Tunghwa, we. were without food,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.