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Just before I left Kalgan my larder was enriched from another and unexpected source. Thanks to the friendly introduction of an American gentleman in Peking, His Excellency, Hou Wei Têh, the Senior Vice-President of the Wai-wu-pu, most courteously sent instructions to Chinese officials along my route, especially at Kalgan and Urga, to give me every assistance.
How this shall be accomplished will be revealed to you in a dream: take heed that you do not fail by the deviation of a single hair." Having thus prepared his discreditable plot, Leou twice struck the walls enclosing him, so that Sun Wei coughed violently.
In this strait Changte sent a message to the besieging general that he would surrender on the hundredth day if a cessation of hostilities were granted, "as it was a law among the princes of Wei that the governor of a place which held out for a hundred days and then surrendered, with no prospect of relief visible, should not be considered as guilty." The respite was short and it was granted.
There are, as I said in the 'former chapter, altogether 305 pieces, which is the number given by Sze-ma Khien. There are also the titles of six others. It is contended by Ku Hsi and many other scholars that these titles were only the names of tunes. the Ya and the Sung received their proper places. The return from Wei to Lu took place only five years before the sage's death.
In a year or so he had done for Lu what he had done for Chung-tu during his magistracy. By this time Ts'i and Sung and Wei and the whole empire were taking notice too. There was actually a state where crime was unknown; where law ruled and the government was strong, and yet, the people more than contented; a state and such a state! looming ahead as the probable seat of a Bretwalda.
"Sun Wei," said the voice of Leou inwardly, "the position you have chosen is a desperate one, and we of the Upper Air who are well disposed towards you find the path of assistance fringed with two-edged swords." "It is well said: 'He who lacks a single tael sees many bargains," replied Sun Wei, a refined bitterness weighing the import of his words.
"It is not that the well-disposed are slow to urge your claims, but that your enemies number some of the most influential demons in all the Nine Spaces," he declared, speaking with a false smoothness that marked all his detestable plans. "Assuredly in the past you must have led a very abandoned life, Sun Wei, to come within the circle of their malignity." "By no means," replied Sun Wei.
All difficulties seemed to disappear like mist before the sun as she thought of the powerful advocates she now had at Peking. "Tu and Wei have passed," she said, as she rushed into her father's presence, "and now the end of our troubles is approaching." With impatient hope Jasmine took leave of her father, and started on her eventful journey.
By Tu's especial instructions also a prominence was allowed to Wei, which gratified his vanity and smoothed down the ruffled feathers of his conceit. Jasmine thought that no time should be lost in reducing Miss King to the same spirit of acquiescence to which Wei had been brought, and on the evening of her wedding-day she broached the subject to Tu.
While Wei Chang was thus engaged the door of the enclosure in which he laboured was thrust cautiously inwards, and presently he became aware that the being whose individuality was never completely absent from his thoughts was standing in an expectant attitude at no great distance from him.
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