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Show •; »„ • < L i n t s l n g , Hovember 1,1930 • Bear Rowland^ r., *- wjS are having nothing so much as excitement here new* Dramatis Personae. " % 13L» Heu* superintendent of the Lint sing memorial Hospital, /. well known in this vicinity for seven years, friendly and intimate with isany local people, Nationalist Party and educational leaders* and with the authorities. Two years ago he helped finance a smell auto** ... mobile business with ,'.-:" ''""" '^.*. Wang Eu l*in, a former'student of the PangChuang school, a church member, T'tho inactive for "many years), formerly volunteer instructor in the Lintsing Mission Beys' School, later instructor in physical education in the Lintsing Eleventh Provincial Kiddle School; fired from there for failure to attend his classes regularly, a veteran of many business ventures, all of, them failures. The automobile Msi- - miss with which he engaged with mL Hsu was never a success. The old Ford he had was always out of repair* J$r, Hsu finally made a sort of informal foreclosure on theauto, and J.t was idle for a leng period "because it needed repairs. Later'it was repaired,, and was in the hands pf ^r.. *Wang again, when running It without oi|*» he'suddenly stopped and poured oil into, without letting it cool off, thus starting a fire which burned it up^as well*-as several nearby buildings.- In order to get the use of it again it seems that ^r. Wang had induced his wife, a graduate nurse in the employ of the Lint slag Hospital, known at work as Miss Hiu, to guarantee &4.S financial obligations to Dr. HsUa She has recently left the employ of the Hospital to take a job at T^nu» perhaps to avoi# fulfilling hie obligations fo Dr. Hsu. Mr. Tang has also occasionally run an auto busine#s of a kind with a oar borrowed from a relative of his wh@ had control of an army bus, but that went to Ohen|ehow many months ago, and since then he has been idle* &e. can be remembered as one of the par tners in an auto firm which persisted in using the church yard for a gar* ageand 'one of the church buildings for a repair shop just before, or possibly just after, Dr. Hsu became a part$e%.in theeoncern. At the time Ott his use of the church yeard he had as partner one or more men unknown to us, Mr* "'ang is said to be a sworn brother of Mr. Shin Tseng Chu (principal ef the Boys1 Safcoel) andis a relative of the ladies8 house cook, ^ang ^en Ch'ing. miile Miss IUU was in. the employ of the Heeplt-al she argued that she should be given a family residence in the Hospita.1 compound on the ground that a graduatefjjSmm had * as much right to ask fo: and receive a, full family residence for herself and her husband as a ma. nurse had to ask the same for himself and his wife. At that time Dr. Hsi denied the le«ie of her remarks (as we have the new Purees' Heme for the women nurses) and privately expressed himself as eppesed to having Mr, TCang a resident ef the Compound because of the shady reputations of ma of his frieisde*, m*ny of them auto Chauffeurs and mechanics, some c-fP •--'-<* ; quite possibly heroin merchants,1 a&d perhaps knights of the road. W ; A certain Ohang, said to have become a Christian under ike N aespices of ^an*s Ku Shin » when the latter was in MMW£ Hsiach r-l} himself formerly an instructor in the church school there, a man utn- *; known means of support, thot very lightly of by fasual acquaints « :e% known well by no one here. Chang has a very peculiar manner of s^w* , "Which to all who have talked With him is easy toi recognise* E&J& m • v IH- ' : '• - '•• ''. •••' . ' " . '•'•*' '*.'• .X ' ' ,' •'' ' ,'/! ....-, ' ..,'.•" . i. * "CM ' '% '" • ' , ' • • ' •* . . . _ . .*. .L ,»• r . » . . * i . . v i A -i- -i ••. •» -.." ..' i . - ' ^ . •: . v : ,• >••••;% .1.^ '•'• . ' " M. - - , : ' • " :'••>.••_* • ' •' |