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FROM PRESIDENT TO PRISON

the barracks. I have already sent for the Chinese official, directing that he bring an executioner with him."

These were Shum's arrangements; but it turned out that the executioner had only to deal with one individual, as the other died in the course of the day from his injuries.

And in this way my work in Udzimi came to an end. I returned there no more, for I remained in bed at Harbin for some weeks. Even after getting up I was forced to use a crutch and was in constant pain; and the effects of my fight with the hunghutzes stayed by me for a long time in the form of rheumatism in my injured leg and hip.