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Calling her assistant spirits, she told them of Chow-sin's insult.
Would he sound the alarm, and would the whole place soon be alive with men searching for the fever-stricken patient?
Almost every day since babyhood he had gazed at the high stone shaft, or tablet, covered with Chinese writing, that stood in the centre of the lofty room, reaching almost to the roof.
Then, before his very eyes, the youth changed suddenly into his former shape and was an old man again.
