CHAPTER XXXIII. 287 CONTINUATION OF THE ST. LOUIS PORTRAIT Propitious Date for Finishing it--Changing Ornaments--Frame for Portrait--Spring Days--Her Majesty’s Walks--Inspecting the New Buildings--The Jinrikisha--The Miniature Railway--Her Majesty’s Automobiles--Kite Flying--His Majesty the Emperor Plows and Sows the Seed of a Furrow. CHAPTER XXXIV. 294 FINISHING AND SENDING OFF THE PORTRAIT Nineteenth Day of April--Invitations to Ladies of the Legation to see the Portrait--Visit of the Ladies to the Palace--The Portrait--Princes and Nobles see the “Sacred Picture”--Attempt to Photograph--Portrait taken to Wai-Wu-Pu--Visit of Corps Diplomatique--Packing the Portrait-- Special Railway built from Foreign Office to Railway Station-- Departure of Picture--En route--Tientsin--Shanghai-- Embarkation for San Francisco--Reception by Prince Pu L’un and Imperial Commission at St. Louis--Unveiling the Portrait--Placing the Portrait in the Gallery of Fine Arts-- Arrival at Washington--Presentation to the Government. CHAPTER XXXV. 300 RETURN TO THE SUMMER PALACE Return to the Summer Palace--The Palace of the Emperor’s Father in Spring--The Grounds of the Summer Palace--The Studio--At Work Again--The Theater--His Majesty’s Theater Program--Work of the Vermilion Pencil--His Majesty’s Interest in the Russo-Japanese War--Spring Garden Party to the Ladies of the Legation--Another large Portrait of Her Majesty--Showing it to the Ladies--Her Majesty’s Desire for Highly Finished Detail--Her Delight in her New Hobby--Final Days. List of Illustrations Portrait of the Empress Dowager _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE The Empress and the Ladies of the Court in the Imperial Barge 24 Princesses of the Court 40 The Young Empress Ye-Ho-Na-Lah 44 At the American Legation, Peking 88 Chinese Architecture 104 On the Road from Peking to the Summer Palace 112 The Empress Dowager Writing a “Great Character” 136 The Empress Dowager in the Gardens of the Summer Palace 140 The Official Audience of Their Majesties 146 Old Ruins in the Summer Palace 152 The Secondary Wife of the Emperor 168 Pai-lou in the Grounds of the Summer Palace--on the Shore of the Lake 176 Princesses of the Court 188 Court in the Winter Palace--“Her Majesty Comes” 204