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Show friend of one of the former partners of Mr, Tang in the auto business, and has lately been an occasional, if not more frequent, caller at Tang's home, situated in Dr. W s yard just to the south of the Hospital. A little over a month ago this Chang brot to the Hospital a young man who had sustained a gunshot wound of the left thigh. The patient was a resident of Sung Lin, the most famous bandit rendezvous of this vicinity. Chang had the patient register as a second class patient, and hs himself staid with him in his room as attendant. Sufficient money was not available and Mr. Tang acted as guarantor of the patient's bill. Then convalescence had somewhat progressed, but recovery was not complete, the patient left the Hospital, still owing four dollars. Mr. Tang, being a near neighbor and well known, the Hospital accountant made no fuss about &he discharge. Later, whether when trying to collect the "bill from *T.-. Tang or in some other waw, it was found that the patient was staying in *r. Tang's home. It was easy to guess that *r. Tang's wife, the nurse, was doing dressings for him with Hospital supplies, and without medical supervision. During the' stay of this patient in the Hospital Chaa g did a great deal of walking about in thegeneral Compound. Several days ago Chang brot another patient to the Hospital, also from Spng Lin, with sore on his neck which had been dressed before entrance with gauze and cotton dressings which were indubitably Hospital property. Dr. Hsu immediately jumped to the conclusion that the boy had been to or lived at Mr. Tang's house and had had there applied these dressings, presumably removed without warrant by -Mr. Tang's wife from theHospital. " Dr. Hsu asked the patient where he had had the dressings applied and the answer was, "You take care of treating me and make no inquiries about where I had these dressings applied." This patient also registered as a second class patient, and this time Chang himself acted as guarantor, giving his address as the office of the constabulary. - •- • . Aots, lots of them;- On the night of October 50th at one o'cloek in the morning of Oe 31st, I heard a single shot fired nearby. The telephone had been ringing just before, someone calling the gatehouse and the men's ward. After the shot the telephone continued to ring and finally rang for me. I answered and Dr. Hsu said, "There are bandits in the Compound. Comm immediately to my house and bring a lot of people. Bring everybody." During the time that I was telephoning Olga heard several volleys ofshots. I returned upstairs, put on trousers and sweater and tried to think what wa best to do next. I interpreted Dr. Hsu to mean that his house was a plac of safety and to get our family there at once. Thinking of the Tiekes and the Gilberts and hardly earing to start with the children across the open Compound in the middle of a moonless night, I went downstairs and telephoned again to Dr. Hsu to ask him what it was all about. He replied that the bandits had gone. A little later I called Dr. Hsu again and he said that the constabulary was coming. Then he called the gatehouse, an I listened in. He told the gateman to ©pen one-half the gate in order to let them in. He had trouble first in getting the gateman to answer the phone and later to make him understand, and three or four minutes later he was still telephoning on the same subject, and being cold I went to bed. Te put Sigrid in the guest room bed, considering the porch an unsafe place. At five-thirty Piss Breek came and called from the lawn to say that her cook had come to her weeping and threatening to k'ou t'ou to her, asking her to go immediately to Dr. Hsu's yard where his relative, Mr. Tang was, to guarantee his good behavior. He explained that Dr. Hsu and Mr. Tang had become enemies over Mr. Tang's debts to Dr. Hsu andthat |