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You want to go?" Rick sighed. "I learn something new every day. Okay, Hassan. You're the dragoman." The little car swung around and sped back the way they had come, into a better part of the city. In a short time Hassan slowed and began searching. At last he pulled to the curb, in front of a large house of Victorian design. "Here is 2205," he announced.
"This is the number on the letter." "You let me see, please?" Hassan asked. "Sure, Hassan." The dragoman took the letter and examined it. He chuckled. "Samehni, ya sidi. That mean excuse, sir. Small mistake. You reading backward. Number is 2205." "But how can that be?" Rick asked. "Arabic goes backward from English." "Maybe so with words," Hassan said. "But numbers not so. This number is 2205.
The Great Yu, who drained the empire, and came to the throne in B.C. 2205 as first Emperor of the Hsia dynasty, followed in the lines of his pious predecessors. But the Emperor K'ung Chia, B.C. 1879-1848, who at first had treated the Spirits with all due reverence, fell into evil ways, and was abandoned by God. This was the beginning of the end.
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