The future? Both women stare ahead noncommittally. "They sa¥ that the Generalissimo is meeting with success in Kiangsi. Let us hope that he will have the same results in Szechuan, but he seems to be busy—so busy and so needed everywhere. "Meanwhile" (Miss Wright fished in her pocket a moment) "here is proof of the Soviet Republic of Kensi and Szechuan that I spoke of a few moments ago."
Before the reporter she laid the evidence—a piece of green cotton cloth stamped in Chinese characters, which designated it as worth 3,000 cash at the Bank of the Soviet Republic of Kensi and Szechuan. Tt was decorated in its centre by the familiar sickle and hammer tying in the midst of which But! a mailed fist was raised.
AE, Herald" Photo,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.