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The full story of the experances at Miss Darroch and Miss Sharp, while in the hands of the Honan bandits will not be learned till the ladies themselves, return to port. At present they are in Kaifeng fix. Meanwhile two other Tales, Miss Wilson and Miss Thonpon, who were com- ing from Chowchih in Sheusi, to Rankow, Coind this on the train which they beard- ed at Hoann-fu and, what they learned of the story they kindly related to us.

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All was peaceful in Sihwa-hsien, - n° quiet little Houan si where the two ladies had been stationed for years when it was suddenly attacked by bandits on the morning of September 23rd. There hui Ben many rumeurs in the country side! about bandit outrage, but it was not, ex- preted that their city would fwy attackvil and no preparation for defence were made,They heard the sound of firing at daybreak mid (nt · first thought it was érückers, but the servants brought the alarm that the baudits had come so they dred and considered what hest should h dene. It was impossible fu run, and equally trapossible to hide, so they posolved that, If the bandits should trouble them, they (would allow them to take whatever they plen ed. · În due time their premises were ransacked and whatever was thought worth carrying away was taken, and thin the baurits said they wanted to take Miss Sharp but Miss Darnich could, stay be- cause she was too old. The Indies, how- ever, desfind to be parted so they were kept under guard till nightfall when ther were both placed in a cart. A her of their schoolboys were also taken but none of the seheri girly. The ladies pluded with them to Jet the youngsters go as they belonged t peor people but were told to mind their own husinovs. At nightfall the gang set out with a large quantity of loat which they had secured conveyance for, and also many captives who were made to walk. They were driven along the road like sheep in the daytime tied in bunches by their pigtails, and at night they were carefully guarded to prevent

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They seldom remained more twenty-four hours in one place, and travelled at night hy preference, They followed aziz-zag course and planned to reach some town, or all city, early in the morning so as to expture it by sur- prise. No opinition was met with from the soldiers, and the poor people who They were unarmed would do nothing. seemed to be well, supplied with informa tion as to the district passed through, and knew who had money in haml, or who was likely to be worth taking. In this way they trekked alang till they ad crossed the railway and stered the hilly cuntry, Ny violence was offered to the ladies, and they got as good food as the district provided, but they were always carefully guarded. Nearly a month passed in this way during which many towns Fad barn plundered, and then woubles, begun. The

had expended all their ammuni- thm and could get na mure, so from being the rubbers it became their turn to get robbed for they were 'Set, upoi" by The country milita: The carts could not travel amongst the hills so were abandone:l, anfl penies we got for the ladies, but geither had been accustomed to riding and cild! not sit the animals. The food sapplies also gave out and they had nothing i cat Bave one bowl of met gruel in the twenty- four hours. The the soldiers entne and it became a race to reach Lushan, in which district-the old headquarters of White Wolf-the hills are so rugged that they did not expect to be pursued there.

This was the worst time. The fatigue of scrambling up and down, precipices.. of being dragged through streams waist deep and

kept tailing along was killing. Their clothes had been torn to tatters, and their shoes were gone. Their feet were cut up by the stones and filled with thorns, but there was to rest for them. When they gave in and refused to go fur- ther, the bandits brought their rifies and threatened to shoot them. At night they thought themselves fortuuste if the wot a bundle of bean stalks to rest without

scrap of covering" save, the Chirme" clothes which their Eaptors had handed oyer when their own. ware The wont was the showers of bullets which met them at every turn of thermal and they did not know at whet moment this might be killed or woundel,

THE ISCAPE.

This was their experience for several days when one morning there was a sudden alarm that the soldiers were at hand and the usual stampede In the hurry the two ladies were separated and neither, kaer what had become of the other, Mia Dar roch was dragged off by the Captain of the hand and one of his men to the foot | of a precipice and told to climb up. She said she could not so he went ahead to

show her the way when he got into a fix himself and his man climbed up to help him. Upon this Miss D. proceeded to Craw away in the opposite direction and got into a little thicket in a hollow where she remained till the soldiers came up. These at first would not believe she wa foreign woman at all as her clothes were in Tags and her head was covered with a bit

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of toweling. As soon as the soldiers were what hecsue of the bandits afterwards is katisfied she was the lady they were in not known. The credit of their rescue search of she implored them to go to the secry to belong to Wu Pei-iu, but he rescue of Miss Sharp, but she had been could more easily have done is first, than already rescued. In her case she was asked last. There were a number of ocasions on to jump down a precipice and as she refus which the soldiers might have got them el the bandits jumped down themselves off but they always exhibited a wonderful The and made off. She found a little care faculty of keeping out of the way. and crawled in there when soon after the ladies knew that they were being followed soldiers appeared Thoy said they were by three maja members of their mission, Wu Peifu's men who has been sent out and always kept their hopes hright that to bring the two foreign ladies to Loyang, some day they would meet with deliver and treated them quite kindly till they ance, but it was a terrible and to go arrived there after a further journey of through as long as it lasted. They are five days A number of other explives reported to be in fairly good health, but made their e cane at the same ting, includ- so overcome by their experience that they log what was left of their school boys. just want to rest, and not to be bothered by

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