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course we know you could kill us if you liked, but if you did kill us we should go straght to heaven to be with the God we love and worship, and that is so much better than being down here in this world. We are not afraid to die.” And from that time a change came over the face of that man when he looked at us—-but he had never heard of the world’s Saviour. It went on for six weeks, but I must not keep you by telling the details. There were some terrible hours. On the table was a howl of rice and a basin of chunks of pork, and we soon found the rice was half cooked, hard; the pork was half cooked and hard, one could scarcely get one’s teeth in it. They like it best that way— it stays by them longer. That was their meal, hut they had an extra dish, and extra delicacy, for that meal. They had caught a chicken somewhere and cooked it. There was something else— there was another basin right in front of my place, in which they had put the raw, uncooked, blood of the chicken with its internal organs, also raw, and chopped up. I was afraid the leader of the brigands would take some of that red substance and put it on my rice. Happily he didn’t; hut he said, “Would like some of this?” pointing to the basin. ii-'I’d rather have some of that,” indicating a bowl of cabbage water on the table. Before our meal began my husband said, “We have a custom of thanking the God of heaven for our food. Wouldn’t it he nice to thank the God of heaven for our food?” The Brigand Chief looked at him and said, “ Oh, well, if you want to.” They sat quietly while we rose and asked the blessing over that meal. You know, from that time for six weeks they would have blessing over every meali' The food was always the same, never any variety, always the hard rice and always the hard pork and the ;cabbage water. Only, sometimes, the chicken. My dear husband was enabled to live upon it, and indeed it did him no harm. They did not keep me six weeks. I The second night we came to a lonely valley far hack in the mountains. We came to a lonely little cottage, and went in. A single room, the family—-man, wife and chil-: dren— all there, but the King of the Brigands was not there. Then they said, “ He has not come; he will come tomorrow,” so there we had to stay the night. They all lay down upon the floor to smoke their opium, that crowd of thirty or forty men. They pointed us to a bed in the corner behind a little partition, near a manure heap in the corner. It was the dead of winter, bitter cold, and we had no bedding, nothing but one rug each. There we lay, covered over with these rugs, and were soon fast asleep. About the middle of the night it seemed I was awakened by voices, and could see from a little group of men about the fire. One was our evangelist and he was pleading in a low voice that he should not he killed nor tortured. They were tired of being brigands, the dangerous life,, and wanted to come back into the army, so took us to force the government to receive them back into the army as soldiers. The man to whom he was talking only shook his head and said we should never be liberated until the government took them into the army as soldiers, and thé government would not do anything for them unless we were made to suffer, “ eat bitterness” that was the expression. Of course if the government would not do that for them we should be killed. I lay there praying for the evangelist, because I could tell how troubled he was from his voice. He was. pleading and saying, “No, these people are not like the young missionaries you took before. They were young men and they escaped. These people will never escape, they are old, very, very. old. They must receive respect and
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