THE PIED PIPER
III. UNDER FIRE
IV. THE SWORD-PEN
V. IN TOWN
VI. THE PAGODA
VII. IPHIGENIA
VIII. THE HOT NIGHT
IX. PASSAGE AT ARMS
X. THREE PORTALS
XI. WHITE LOTUS
XII. THE WAR BOARD
XIII. THE SPARE MAN
XIV. OFF DUTY
XV. KAU FAI
XVI. THE GUNWALE
XVII. LAMP OF HEAVEN
XVIII. SIEGE
XIX. BROTHER MOLES
XX. THE HAKKA BOAT
XXI. THE DRAGON'S SHADOW
ILLUSTRATIONS
_"Good-by! A pleasant voyage"_ ... Frontispiece
_Rudolph was aware of crowded bodies, of yellow faces grinning_
_He let the inverted cup dangle from his hands_
_He went leaping from sight over the crest_
CHAPTER I
A LADY AND A GRIFFIN
It was "about first-drink time," as the captain of the Tsuen-Chau, bound
for Shanghai and Japan ports, observed to his friend Cesare Domenico, a
good British subject born at Malta. They sat on the coolest corner in
Port Said, their table commanding both the cross-way of Chareh Sultan el
Osman, and the short, glaring vista of desert dust and starved young
acacias which led to the black hulks of shipping in the Canal. From the
Bar la Poste came orchestral strains--"Ai nostri monti"--performed by a
piano indoors and two violins on the pavement.
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