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She had dreaded reaching their destination, where she expected to find Yuan Shi Hung awaiting her; and once, in fear of it, she had tried to throw herself down a precipice along the brink of which the path ran. After that she had been roped to a big, powerful Manchu.
History would go; yes; but a mort of pernicious lies would go with it. But when all is said, China was not unfortunate in having a strong giant of a man, a foreigner withal, at her head during those crucial decades. Ts'in Shi Hwangti guarded China through most of that perilous intermission between the cycles. It was the good that he did that mostly lived after him.
He was in the world of men, where movement is not easy and the very air a burden. In his own sphere, in his own element, he might have outrun Fionn, but this was Fionn's world, Fionn's element, and the flying god was not gross enough to outstrip him. Yet what a race he gave, for it was but at the entrance to his own Shi' that the pursuer got close enough.
Word was sent to the Shi's of Ireland that this lady should not be permitted to enter any of them; from which it would seem that the ordinances of the Shi come from the higher world, and, it might follow, that the conduct of earth lies in the Shi'. In that way, the gates of her own world and the innumerable doors of Faery being closed against her, Becuma was forced to appear in the world of men.
But on Uct Dealv there came a rage of jealousy and despair such as no person in the Shi' had ever heard of, and from that moment she became capable of every ill deed; for there are two things not easily controlled, and they are hunger and jealousy. She determined that the woman who had supplanted her in Iollan's affections should rue the day she did it.
Four of the largest Shi Delts sat on the front porch that evening and the telephone got paralysis right after supper. They had told the boy that if he joined them he would probably have to leave school in his Junior year to become governor; and he didn't want to see any of us for fear we would wake him up.
"There is no such place in Ireland," said Caelte, "but in the Shi' there is such a place." "There is in truth," said Fionn. "I used to eat fruits and roots in the summer," the boy continued, "but in the winter food was left for me in a cave." "Was there no one with you?" Fionn asked. "No one but a deer that loved me, and that I loved." "Ah me!" cried Fionn in anguish, "tell me your tale, my son."
Only, what they had done in China was a mere Ts'in Shi Hwangti, because Laotse and Confucius had not failed spiritually to prepare the ground, they must send forth Adept-souled Augustus and Tiberius to do, if human wisdom and heroism could do it, in Italy; because Pythagoras' Movement had failed. The Roman Empire was the European attempt at a China; China was the Asiatic creation of a Rome.
Frank drew his pistol; but Muriel clung to his arm and cried: "Oh, spare the poor wretch!" Tashi had no scruples, but his magazine was empty and he searched in vain for a cartridge. But Yuan Shi Hung's time had come. Badshah's trunk shot out and caught the climber's ankle. The Chinaman was plucked from the face of the cliff and hurled to the ground.
He was now in dead earnest that the Past should go, and history begin again; to be read forever afterwards in this order, the Creation, the Reign of Ts'in Shi Hwangti. But he spared books on useful subjects: that is to say, on Medicine, Agriculture, and Magic.
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