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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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them what advantage was to be gained by
stopping me. He said I had come direct from
Peking, and had a passport from the Emperor
of China, which I could show them; and that,
having that passport, my whereabouts was
known, so that if anything happened to me
they would have Chinese soldiers swarming
over their country, and every sort of harm
done them. He then went on to say that as
far as he was concerned it was a matter of
indifference whether they let me through or
not; but, looking at the question from an out-
side point of view, it certainly seemed to him
wiser on their part to let me go quietly on to
the next place, and so end the matter. If they
acted thus, nothing more would be heard of
me; whereas, if they did anything to me,
a good deal more might come of it. The up-
shot of the affair was that they allowed them-
selves to be persuaded, and it was agreed that
I should be permitted to proceed on my way.
Rahmat-ula-Khan had successfully extracted
me from what might have been a very awk-
ward situation.
He was one of the best men for this kind of
work I could have found, for he was always
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