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When Sir Arthur Pearson started out on his big drive in the interests of the soldiers and sailors who might be deprived of their sight in the Great World War, Mr. Kahn generously laid the whole of this magnificent estate at his disposal. The House itself is one of the most famous in the United Kingdom.
In fact no one seemed to know just what to do and it was all over so quickly that even Kahn himself had not time to get a glimpse of us through the swinging door. A moment later we had piled into a taxicab at the curb and were speeding through the now deserted streets uptown to the laboratory. Kennedy was jubilant. "I may have almost precipitated a riot," he chortled, "but I'm glad I stood up.
What can we do against the police of this country working in their own land?" Streuss struck the table before which they were standing. The veins in his temples were like whipcord. "Adolf," he muttered, "you talk like a fool! Can't you see what it means? If that document reaches its destination, what do you suppose will happen?" "They will know our plans, of course," Kahn answered.
He whom one might suppose almost native to the Paris of Debussy and Magnard and Ravel, of Verlaine and Gustave Kahn and Huysmans, has found comfortable an environment essentially tight and illiberal, a society that masks philistinism with toryism, and manages to drive its radical and vital and artistic youth, in increasing numbers every year, to other places in search of air.
"I have no objections to your calling him up and telling him that we know what he is up to and can trace it to him provided you don't tell him how we did it yet." Carton had seized the telephone and was hastily calling every place in which Kahn was likely to be.
You see I had no idea that the work would develop so fast, and things have risen in prices very much the last few years." At the time that this letter was written the Revolution was in progress, and Nanchang, with all the rest of Central China, was in a turmoil. Because of the disturbed conditions most of the missionaries left the city, but Dr. Kahn refused to leave her work.
Gustave Kahn notes that few followed him to the grave. He was unknown except to some choice spirits, the dozen superior persons of Huysmans, scattered throughout the universe. His wife survived him only a short time. Little has been written of him, the most complete estimate being that of Camille Mauclair, with an introduction by Maeterlinck who calls his Hamlet more Hamlet than Shakespeare's.
I was frankly amazed, now, to see how strongly the city as a whole was turning to the Reform League. A boy, pushing through the crowd, came upon Kennedy and myself, talking to Miss Ashton. He shoved a message quickly into Craig's hand and disappeared. "For heaven's sake!" he exclaimed as he tore open the envelope and read. "What do you think of that? Kahn has committed suicide!
Stone succeeded in securing the lot and in making what she gleefully termed "a real Methodist conversion" of the temple into an isolation ward. In 1896 Dr. Stone had landed in China and with Dr. Kahn begun medical work in a small, rented Chinese building.
Laverick looked around him a little defiantly, and shrugged his shoulders. "You know very well that I do not carry it about with me," he said. "The gentleman on my left," he added, pointing to Kahn, "can tell you where it is kept." "Quite so," Streuss admitted.
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