TORONTO
WILLIAM BRIGGS
Copyright, 1914, by
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
To
Her who shared my life and
suffered in the Beautiful Isle
*FOREWORD*
In every port of the Orient the outposts of the restless, aggressive
West touch the lines of the impassive East. Consuls, military and naval
officers, merchants, missionaries force the ideas and ideals of the West
upon the reluctant East. Many of these representatives of western
civilization are true to the high standards of the nations and religions
from which they come. Many others fall to the level, and below the
level, of those they live among.
This story is an attempt to picture this life where the East meets the
West, in one small port and for the one short period covered by the
Franco-Chinese War of 1884-85. Of the characters one, Dr. MacKay, is
unhesitatingly called by his own name. Sergeant Gorman and one or two
others of the subordinate figures are drawn from life. The rest,
including the principal actors, are purely imaginary.
T. F.
OWEN SOUND, ONT.
*CONTENTS*
I. Storm Signals
II. A Lull
III. The Typhoon
IV. Parried
V. Introductions
VI. On the Defensive
VII. Sparring for Advantage
VIII. Sinclair's Opportunity
IX. A Quiet Life
X. Glorious War
XI. The Life-Healer Is Come
XII. Matutinal Confidences
XIII. More Confidences
XIV. The Appeal of the Heroic
XV. The Lure Of The East
XVI. Sergeant Whatisname
XVII. Wolves and Their Prey
XVIII. To the Rescue
XIX. Allister
XX. The Infallible Experts
XXI. The Language of Song
XXII. Halcyon Days
XXIII. Impending Storms
XXIV. The Ball Begins
XXV. The Ball Proceeds
XXVI. A Game of Ball
XXVII. The Charge of the Tamsui Blues
XXVIII. Unholy Confessors
XXIX. Flags of Truce
XXX. The Mystery of Love
XXXI. Ancestors and Pedigrees
XXXII. A Man and a Woman
XXXIII. My Children in the Lord
XXXIV. The Soldier of the Legion
XXXV. The Language of Paradise
XXXVI. An Apparition
XXXVII. "My Son! My Son!"
XXXVIII. Rejected
XXXIX. A Realized Dream
XL. The Coward
XLI. "Good Will Toward Men"
*ILLUSTRATIONS*