e was eaten they set their minds to other enterprises. Romulus
fetched the spades and industriously began to dig into Wang Tai's
grave, and Moses, crowing and laughing, fell to as assistant, and as
the result of their labor the earth flew to either side. Only three
feet of loose Christian law covered little Wang Tai!

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A small yellow woman, moaning with grief, had tossed all night on her
hard bed of matting and her harder pillow of hollowed wood. Even the
familiar raucous sounds of early morning in the Chinese quarter of San
Jose, remindful of that far-distant country which held all of her heart
not lying dead under Christian sod, failed to lighten the burden which
sat upon her. She saw the morning sun push its way through a sea of
amber and the nickel dome of the great observatory on Mount Hamilton
standing ebony against the radiant East. She heard the Oriental jargon
of the early hucksters who cried their wares in the ill-smelling
alleys, and with tears she added to the number of pearls which the dew
had strewn upon the porch. She was only a small yellow woman from Asia,
all bent with grief; and what of happiness could there be for her in
the broad sunshine which poured forth from the windows of heaven,
inviting the living babies of all present mankind to find life and
health in its luxurious enfolding? She saw the sun climb the skies with
imperious magnificence, and whispering voices from remote Cathay
tempered the radiance of the day with memories of the past.

Could you, had your hearts been breaking and your eyes blinded with
tears, have seen with proper definition the figures of a strange
procession which made its way along the alley under the porch? There
were white men with three prisoners--three who so recently had tested
the sweets of freedom, and they had been dragged back to servitude. Two
of these had been haled from the freedom of life and one from the
freedom of death, and all three had been found fast asleep in the early
morning beside the open grave and empty coffin of little Wang Tai.
There were wise men abroad, and they said that little Wang Tai, through
imperfect medical skill, had been interred alive, and that Romulus and
Moses, by means of their impish pranks, had brought her to life after
raising her from the grave. But wherefore the need of all this talk? Is
it not enough that these two brigands were whipped and sent back into
servitude, and th