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Updated: May 21, 2025
It was a slender straw, to be sure, but Reynolds grasped at it. "What thing you mean, Tsang? What can I do?" "Two more night' to San Flancisco," said Tsang softly; "one more bet, maybe!" "Oh, I've thought of that. What's the good of throwing good money after bad? No use, I no got chance."
"On it," says Hiuen Tsang, "the utmost skill of the artist has been employed; the ornamentation is in the richest colors, and the statue of Buddha is cast in gold and silver, decorated with gems and precious stones." A revolution took place in architecture in this age: the Buddhist style was abandoned, for something which, says Mrs. Flora Annie Steel: *
The one person who watched these proceedings with disfavor was a short, attenuated, bow-legged Chinaman, with a face like a grotesque brass knocker, and a taciturnity that enveloped him like a fog. On the voyage out, Tsang Foo, the assistant deck steward, had gotten into a fight with a brother Chinaman, and had been saved from dismissal by Reynolds's timely intercession at headquarters.
For a full minute the polishing continued, then face and figure vanished, and Reynolds was left staring in impotent rage at the empty port-hole. When the room steward appeared in answer to an imperative summons, he was directed to send Tsang Foo to room No. 7 at once. Tsang came almost immediately, bearing tea and anchovy sandwiches, which he urbanely placed on a camp-stool.
All his conserved energy went to aid him in solving the problem. At last he reached a decision: this was clearly a case to be laid before the only god be knew, the god of Chance. "Me gamble too," he said; "me no lose." "But s'pose you had lost? S'pose you lose what no belong you? What thing you do?" "You do all same my talkee you?" asked Tsang, for the first time lifting his eyes.
A slow smile broke the brass-like stillness of Tsang Foo's face: "Pipe," he gasped softly, "opium velly good, make land and sea all same by an' by!" Judging from appearances Miss Lucinda Perkins was justifying her reason for being by conforming absolutely to her environment.
Framed in the circle of the port-hole were the head and shoulders of Tsang Foo. Not a muscle of the yellow face moved, not a tremor of the slanting eyelids showed surprise. The right hand, holding a bit of tow, mechanically continued polishing the brass around the port-hole, but the left long, thin, and with claw-like nails, shot stealthily forward and snatched the pistol.
He sent ambassadors with rich gifts to Samundragupta; who called the gifts tribute, and permitted him, on consideration thereof, to restore the shrine. The monastery then built by the Sinhalese was afterwards visited by Hiuen Tsang; who describes it as having three storeys, six halls, three towers, and accommodation for a thousand monks.
The bandit chief Ki Tsang had prepared a scheme for the seizure of the Chinese treasure; he had attacked the train in the plains of Gobi; the car is assaulted, pillaged, ransacked; the gold and precious stones, to the value of fifteen millions, are torn from the grasp of the Celestials, who yield after a courageous defence.
We were talking about the safety of the Grand Transasiatic across Central Asia, and Pan Chao had said that the road was not so safe as it might be beyond the Turkestan frontier, as, in fact, Major Noltitz had told me. I was then led to ask if he had ever heard of the famous Ki Tsang before his departure from Europe. "Often," he said, "for Ki Tsang was then in the Yunnan provinces.
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