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Show amused than angry with the destiny which brought me to this place, more miserable than any I had seen before, and I had seen some gipsy villages which weren't pleasant either. We left this so-called city through the east gate where we had to get out of our rickshaws because there were Japanese soldiers, and after riding some minutes longer over an unusually rough road my companions, Tehchow missionaries, called my attention joyfully to a place in front of us, "Here is our compound!" I saw only a cloud of dust and in the settling darkness some buildings which did not impress me at all, but faithfully I called back, "How lovely!" and could not but smile,to myself over my adventure. I Wot a room in a foreign-style house - the first one I had seen for a long time. I washed myself, I took a little food, and I got to bed as soon as I could. I suppose I was too tired to think much about what I had seen, but I remember that one question circulated in my brain till I fell asleep: "Why, for goodness sake, and for what do people leave their cultivated homes and beautiful countries and come to Tehchow?" |
