She was terrified. She cried for many days before she finally made up her mind. We sold everything we could sell, except our house, and after repaying our debts, we had only seventy dollars left. She saved ten dolars for herself, and put the rest into my pocket. "Work hard, now," she told me when I left.

     I picture her standing in front of the house, crying, trying to say a few encouraging words. I shall always remebr that image. We weren'' the only ones that suffered. The four other people who had resisted the police suffered almost the same fate. Even those who had obeyed

police orders suffered. After losing their land, they had the privilege of working as laborers on the farm run by the sugar company, working twelve hours each day for forty or fifty cents per day. The company had plenty of money, and all the cultivatable land was in one place, so they were able to use machines for cultivation, putting even the plowing oxen out of their jobs. The company only needed a few workers who could do odd jobs for them.

     Those who were selectively hired on the sugar company farm didn't have steady jobs, and they too had to start selling this and that to make a living. After spending all the money they received from selling their land, as well as selling whatever they could sell from their homes, they had to leave to look for jobs eleswhere. The company had promised that our village would become a prosperous progressive town, but instead, the whole village had essentially disintergarted.

     I sat there thinking for quite a while before I suddenly realized that the sun had already set. The trees in the park were cloaked in darkness, and the city lights had begun to light up. I was cold and hngry. I stood up to stretch and walk down the hill, where I found a small restaurant. I decided to eat a full meal, to help me to recover from my state of exhaustion. After drinking two glasses of cheap wine, I returned to the hotel. I wanted to sleep well. As I entered the door, the owner recognized me, and asked, "Aren't you the gentlemen from Taiwan? I ahven't seen you for a while. Where have you been?"

     I was embarrassed. I didn't want to tell him that I had tried to work as a newspaper boy and had been cheated out of my security deposit. After an embarassing moment, I finally told him I'd been staying with a friend.

     "A friend's house? Oh? You've been at a friend's house? You look older know, and more tired." He looked as though he didn't believe me but was polite enough not to say anything else.