After farther debate I was reluct tantly led inside to interview one of. their superiors, a kind of No 1 boy, who, from.
Governor himself, There followed niore debate of the same sterile kind, until about half an hour having been spent, in this nonsensical way, I got fred of the game, and demanding back ory card left saying it was Mr, X's Joss, not mine, The obstructionists had' won: and so Mr. X and T never met. Now the moral of this little episode is this: If a foreigner, like myself, not resident in Kaifeng who, more: over, did mot care two hoots about. These Yamen underlings, was held Jap in this way, what chance has lerly ordinary humble Chinese citizen of breaking through the barrier of Yamen underlings, to sce, one of the superior offic 'Certainly, this "was not the state of affairs Shantung, for, apart from own experience, I was told many [stories of how' even General Han' fhimselt would receive the humblest petitioner, if he had some serious: fatter to put before him.
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