[5] About one hundred dollars.
[6] Railway station.
It is the teaching of financiers and statesmen, and of them who make laws, and of most religionists, that of all things a man should first seek safety—for his own skin—for his own money—for his own soul. Yet I find this teaching strange; because of all the dangers in the universe, the greatest lies in self-preferment.
From the Book of the Sayings of Tsiang Samdup.
CHAPTER VII
“SARCASM? I WONDER IF THAT EVER PAYS.”
The letter was written on the same long, ivory-colored paper as that which had reached McGregor’s office in the silver tube, but this time it was not European handwriting, although the words were English. Some one more used to a brush, such as the Chinese use, and who regarded every pen-stroke as a work of art in true relation to the whole, had taken a quill pen and almost painted what he had to say, in terse strong sentences.
“To Cottswold Ommony, Esquire,
“At the house of his friend.