t. They were
treating me as best they could. Then when we came to a sharp rise over
which the road curled and crawled, they halted suddenly, stretched out
their hands, and bade me good-bye. They meant it to be a sharp
wrench--to be over quickly. Just on the rim of the horizon stretched
the grey of the fading Tartar Walls with their high-pitched towers.
The sun sinking behind the western hills threw some last flames of
golden fire, but the air remained chill. It was becoming cold, and
even the dust no longer rose in clouds. Everything was pinned to the
soil--tired--finished....

I rode on abruptly. Then, for the last time, my cavalrymen turned
round and shouted faintly back to me. It was a word which carried
well. "Chubb, Chubb, Chubb," they were shouting, to give my thoughts a
turn. They knew what I must be thinking. They knew; they had been in
India. I quickened my horse into a gallop, rode faster and faster, and
before night had fallen I had gained the river-boats. It was over....

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BOOKS BY PUTNAM WEALE

Political

MANCHU AND MUSCOVITE

THE RE-SHAPING OF THE FAR EAST
(2 volumes)

THE TRUCE IN THE EAST AND ITS AFTER-MATH

THE COMING STRUGGLE IN EASTERN ASIA

THE CONFLICT OF COLOUR

THE TRUTH ABOUT CHINA AND JAPAN

THE PAGEANT OF PEKING
(In collaboration with Donald Mennie)

Romantic

INDISCREET LETTERS FROM PEKING

THE FORBIDDEN BOUNDARY

THE HUMAN COBWEB

THE UNKNOWN GOD

THE ROMANCE OF A FEW DAYS

THE REVOLT

THE ETERNAL PRIESTESS

THE ALTAR FIRE

WANG, THE NINTH

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