When he had finished he lit three joss sticks which stood in the blue vase the servant had carried, and placed them before the pillar, kow-towing deeply. Then from his capacious sleeve he produced some strips of gold paper suitably inscribed, and these he burnt.
“I think those are all the gods I know,” said Yeh Ling, dusting his fingers daintily.
THE END
FOOTNOTE:
[A] “nose”—informer. Either one who betrays or who supplies information to a criminal.
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