The Prescott daily news., 1908-10-21
} AN ADVENTURE 5 "A OF A MISSIONARY.

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 After spending ten years in India as a missionary l returned to America to recuperate from the effects of the In dian climate. Arriving in June, 1 went on the list of July to a region of high altitude in order to get the benefit of a bracing air. 1 found the change very beneficial. Instead of the hot Indian air 1 breathed an invigorating atmos- phere. From the date of my arrival gained strength.
 At N., not far distant, there was a church, and some of the congregation, hearing that woman missionary was at our hotel, sent me word that if l would give them some account of my work the next Sunday afternoon they would take up collection for my mis- sion. 1 accepted and Sunday morning set out to walk to N. Those who had invited me offered to send for me, but l preferred to walk.
 l had made half the distance when 1 overlook woman walking in the same direction. I am one of those who take every opportunity to save soul, so I accosted her. She was fairly well l dressed and respectable looking, and after a few remarks about the fresh ness of the country and the deep blue | of the sky entered on the subject in which l was and am absorbed. To ar rest her attention I began by telling her about my life as missionary. She | seemed much nterested-indeed, so in- l terested that whenever I attempted to lead her to the subject of her own spiritual condition she would not per init, holding me to what to her was the more attractive subject. Thinking it a good opportunity to rehearse what I intended to say in the afternoon, did so. When I had finished the woman ] asked me a number of personal ques- tions, such as my name and whether had met any of those l was about to address. l told her my name and said had never seen single person of the congregation or indeed any one at N. | She remarked that she should think would be embarrassed at speaking to l strangers, and l replied that 1 was a trifle timid in doing so.
 As we walked on the woman at a place where the path was narrow fell behind me Suddenly 1 felt both my wrists clasped in a firm grip, and be- fore l realized it they were bound to- gether at my back with a handker- chief. My companion, who had done thlS thnn fornn6 ma the ground, both arms being under me. and, tearing my underskirt, she made cords of it and bound my ankles. Hay ing done this, she put me on her shoul- der and carried me into a wood so far from the road that 1 would not be seen, put gag in my mouth, sat me on log and, making cords of other parts of my clothing, bound me to a tree growing against it. Then she left me, telling me not to worry, for she would come back to me before sunset the same evening
 There was nothing for me to do but wait. If the woman did not come back l would starve. If 1 was compelled to stay even one night in the position she had placed me I would surely be q wreck before morning. I wondered what could be her object. Suddenly it occurred to me that l had heard of a large insane asylum in the neighbor- hood. Might she not be an escaped lunatic? l did not doubt that she was and that she would probably forget all about me. The thought was madden ing.
 For a time I was not a bodily suf ferer but after awhile sitting in the same position without being able to change became very painful. My watch was '1 my belt, but I could not see it. l wished that might in order to know hoy fast or rather how slow