At the moment he was away at Chiliku Lamasery trying to settle a disPute, for there the lamas were so incensed at their chief abbot that they were threatening him with murder, This Kantzu-Taofu-Tachienlu road seemed to be more thoroughly controlled by the Szechuen army, and the Tu Ses were less heard about. I have not yet mentioned that, Tuse-ships being hereditary is perfectly possible, and by no means uncommon, to have women T'u Ses. The one at Chanhua grew to fame. Quite young and pretty, though unfortunately, somewhat disfigured by the so-common goitre of the plateaux, she is a fine shot and had numberless notches on her pistols of which she is in the habit of carrying a good many at a time strung ona belt. Unfortunately, when we were at Chanhua we did not make her acquaintance. There had been trouble in which she was.accused by the Central Army of selling rifles to the Reds and of. otherwise aiding and abetting them. Nine-gun Sally was unhappily in prison, Two further stages brought us to Taofu, "through a region endlessly rent by great cracks, reminders of the terrific earthquakes of 1918 and, more seriously, of 1923. Here we met the charming Father Doublet, True son of Frence, he had been at the front
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