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Title: The Lady and Sada San
A Sequel to The Lady of the Decoration

Author: Frances Little
(pseudonym of Fannie Caldwell Macaulay)

Release Date: May 3, 2004 [EBook #12240]

Language: English

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The Lady and Sada San

A Sequel to

The Lady of the Decoration

By

Frances Little

New York
The Century Co.
1912

Copyright, 1912, by

THE CENTURY CO.

Published, October, 1912

TO

ELLEN CHURCHILL SEMPLE

AND

CHARLOTTE SMITH

MY FELLOW WANDERERS THROUGH THE ORIENT

The Lady and Sada San

ON THE HIGH SEAS. June, 1911.

_Mate_:

You once told me, before you went to Italy, that after having been
my intimate relative all these years, you had drawn a red line
through the word surprise. Restore the abused thing to its own at
once. You will need it when the end of this letter is reached. I
have left Kentucky after nine years of stay-at-home happiness, and
once again I am on my way to Japan--this time in wifely
disobedience to Jack's wishes.

What do you think that same Jack has "gone and done"! Of course he
is right. That is the provoking part of Jack; it always turns out
that he is in the right. Two months ago he went to some place in
China which, from its ungodly name, should be in the furthermost
parts of a wilderness. Perhaps you have snatched enough time from
guarding the kiddies from a premature end in Como to read a
headline or so in the home papers. If by some wonderful chance,
between baby prattle, bumps and measles, they have given you a
moment's respite, then you know that the Government has grown
decidedly restless for fear the energetic and enterprising bubonic
or pneumonic germ might take passage on some of the ships from the
Orient. So it is fortifying against invasion. The Government,
knowing Jack's indomitable determination to learn everything
knowable about the private life and character of a given germ,
asked him to join seve