One of the big chiefs of the north, it is stated, can neither read nor write, yet he has achieved a place perhaps third in importance among 'a hundred old million human beings. His fourth wife, formerly pupil in a mission school (and a very ordinary one she wis) is his private secretary and the real chief his supply system, She goes north by special train to Tientain and buys supplies for the army, running into lakhs. She has some six or seven "ce-wives," if the may be allowed, and the family is kept in a state of happy expectancy. all the time, as their lord and master has a primitive but highly effective way of enforcing his will. He simply shoots the wife who does not suit him!
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