I rode on abruptly. Then, for the last time, my cavalrymen turned round and shouted faintly back to me. It was a word which carried well. "Chubb, Chubb, Chubb," they were shouting, to give my thoughts a turn. They knew what I must be thinking. They knew; they had been in India. I quickened my horse into a gallop, rode faster and faster, and before night had fallen I had gained the river-boats. It was over.... * * * * * * BOOKS BY PUTNAM WEALE Political MANCHU AND MUSCOVITE THE RE-SHAPING OF THE FAR EAST (2 volumes) THE TRUCE IN THE EAST AND ITS AFTER-MATH THE COMING STRUGGLE IN EASTERN ASIA THE CONFLICT OF COLOUR THE TRUTH ABOUT CHINA AND JAPAN THE PAGEANT OF PEKING (In collaboration with Donald Mennie) Romantic INDISCREET LETTERS FROM PEKING THE FORBIDDEN BOUNDARY THE HUMAN COBWEB THE UNKNOWN GOD THE ROMANCE OF A FEW DAYS THE REVOLT THE ETERNAL PRIESTESS THE ALTAR FIRE WANG, THE NINTH