When the latter returned with the news that the prisoner had not really been flogged at all, she passed on the information {o the Empress-Dowager who issued special orders that he was to be beaten properly. There was no way of avoiding such a^direct order, and this time the bamboo was applied with so much realism that after few strokes the unfortunate fellow" bock was flayed raw. Hitherto Tsia Tony Imi beer-one of-those "biess-] mut ut that Time she Bad to go[ ed beings who had the prerogative of ordering floggings for others, ana had never had to suffer any himself.
It was therefore more than his delicate person could stand and he fell fainting to the ground, He was thereupon stripped of his silk and satin robes and all his other finery, a coarse cotton garment was flung over him which stuck to his bleeding back, and he was led off to his prison cell.
sai Chu was not allowed to see visitors. His prison fare consisted of two bowls of coarse millet a day. As his property had been confiscated, he had no money with which to buy any extras So the officials of the Clan Court who were all "Yellow Girdles, that," is to say members of the Imperial. clan, secretly subscribed a few shillings a month to enable him to buy himself a few delicacies. Her palace having been confiscated with the rest of the property, his mother was forced to go and live in the country in a small house attached to the family graveyard. very warily in her dealings with the Foreign Powers and could not afford io risk an incident of any kind. She therefore let the matter drop. Tsai Chu continued to live in retirement, until her death put friends of his in power, when he was reinstated in his rank and titles and was given the command of one of Manchu Banner Corps.
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