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This time the usual miracle failed. What was the meaning of this? Heyst raised his voice a thing he disliked doing. It was promptly answered from the compound: "Ada tuan!" Lena, leaning on her elbow, with her eyes on her plate, did not seem to hear anything.

It was late in the afternoon when we entered the mouth of the Sungi Pahang. Aboo Din advised a delay until the next morning. "The Orang Kayah's Malays are pirates, Tuan," he said, with a sinister shrug of his bare shoulders, "he has many men and swift praus; the Dutch, at Rio, have sold them guns, and they have their krises, they are cowards in the day." I smiled at the syce's fears.

The Prince had grown so since he left that she scarcely knew him, and save for the narrow silk sarong about his waist, he was dressed in the English clothes of a Lieutenant of his Highness's artillery. In the front of his rimless cap shone the arms of Johore set in diamonds, exactly as his father, the Governor, wore them. He paused and smiled as he thanked the cringing Tuan Hakim.

The villagers followed the party, and immediately manifested their politeness in various ways. The prettiest girl in the crowd spoke to Louis; though he did not understand a word she said, but replied to her in English, when she was as much at sea as he had been. "What does she say, Achang?" he asked of the Bornean. "Tabet, tuan," replied the native. "I heard her say that; but what does it mean?"

I closed my eyes and stretched back in my long chair, wondering vaguely at the occasion that called for such an outlay in oils, when I heard once more the quiet, insistent "Tuan!" I opened my eyes. "No got red, white, blue ribbon for whip." "Sudah chukup!" The syce shrugged his bare shoulders and gave a hitch to his cotton sarong. "Tuan, to-morrow New Year Day.

The Chinese Navy, assembled in the waters near Shanghai, took action; and in an ultimatum communicated to Peking by their Admiral, declared that so long as the government in the hands of General Tuan Chi-jui refused to conform to popular wishes by reviving the Nanking Provisional Constitution and resummoning the old Parliament, so long would the Navy refuse to recognize the authority of the Central Government.

He could see nothing, yet some people in a canoe must have been very near, for he heard words spoken in an ordinary tone. "Do you think this is the place, Ali? I can see nothing." "It must be near here, Tuan," answered another voice. "Shall we try the bank?" "No! . . . Let drift a little. If you go poking into the bank in the dark you might stove the canoe on some log.

The Premier, General Tuan Chi-jui, in view of the alleged provincial opposition, now summoned to Peking a Conference of Provincial Military Governors to endorse his policy, but this action although crowned with success so far as the army chiefs were concerned the conference voting solidly for war was responsible for greatly alarming Parliament which saw in this procedure a new attempt to undermine its power and control the country by extra-legal means.

He too, as he protested, had an unbounded confidence in Tuan Jim's wisdom. If he could only obtain a promise! One word would be enough! . . . His breathing silences, the low rumblings of his voice, recalled the last efforts of a spent thunderstorm. 'I tried to put the subject aside.

"Perhaps I was wrong when I . . . There are things I regret. The trouble was heavy in his heart when he died. Sometimes I think I was wrong . . . but I do not want to hear the complaint of invisible lips. Therefore I go, Tuan. Let the unquiet spirit speak to his enemy the white man who knows not fear, or love, or mercy knows nothing but contempt and violence. I have been wrong! I have! Hai! Hai!"