"But what has that to do with us?" said the Japanese official.
"Why in a few days the visitor in my dream went home!" said Sauci simply. "And in a few years the Japanese will go back home also!" Such is the courageous spirit of the Korean women.
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One day an American friend of mine had gone to the Police Station with a young Korean girl who had been summoned to appear on what was called a "rearrest charge."
For the Japanese feel perfectly free to rearrest a person even after that person has been proven innocent of a charge. A Korean may be rearrested any time. He can never feel free.
This young, educated girl had been subjected to such indignities on her previous arrest as I would not be able to describe in this book; so she begged the woman friend to go with her.
As she entered the station a rough, ignorant Japanese officer snarled at her as she passed, "Hello! Are you here again? I thought you were still in prison!"
When he had gone from the room the Korean girl said to the American woman, "That man beat me for ten hours one day the last time I was in prison!"
"Why did he beat you?" asked the missionary.
"He was trying to compel me to give him the names of those girls who belonged to the 'Woman's League'."