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...this Fane laughed unpleasantly. He made an offer: if she would bring him written assurance from Townsend that he would marry her, written assurance from Mrs. Townsend that she would divorce Charles, he would do as she asked. Otherwise he would require her to accompany him to Mei-tan-fu, a cholera-stricken town of which he was taking charge...
...loved her with all his soul; but, after all, there were other things to consider. ... A plague town, of course, was dangerous but not necessarily fatal if one took precautions; he advised no unboiled water, no lettuce. She returned to her husband, delighted to be going to Mei-tan-fu, where people were dying...
With the necessary passports secured, money telegraphed ahead to post offices of the larger western cities, and with a letter to General Wu Pei Fu safely stowed in the dispatch box, the expedition left Pekin in August. It went to Cheng Chow on the Pekin-Hankow railroad, then west to the end of the railroad that will some day connect the coast with the western provinces...
Last October, Tuchun Chi of Kiangsu evicted Tuchun Lu of Chekiang (TIME, Oct. 27) ; but the victory in the North of Super Tuchun Chang Tso-lin over Super Tuchun Wu Pei-fu (TIME, Nov. 10) reversed matters and Tuchun Lu, ousted from the Province of Chekiang, was given the Military Governorship of Kiangsu in place of Chi, ousted. This meant that Shanghai had fallen for the second time and was again in Lu's hands...
...Centre, General Wu Pei-fu, until recently the biggest man in China, prepared, with his cronies, for war upon the legions of the Peking warlords...