Word: fuji
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...long controlled Peking. They rolled up a few pieces of field artillery behind the old fort of Taku at the mouth of the river. Merrily they blazed away at all ships which tried to enter it-at many Chinese ships, at one Norwegian steamer, at the Japanese destroyers Fuji and Suzuki.* All this the mercenaries did because they feared that other mercenaries hired by Super-Tuchuns Chang and Wu, the War Lords of Central and Northern China, might be going to sneak up the Pei-ho to capture Tientsin...
...passed into her late twenties--that fearsome betwixt and between age--with no friend of her own age near, for her girlhood lover disappeared twelve years before--in the last "Tiger Year." Asano, her old manservant, tells Mildred-san that the smoke-cloud Tiger which glowers over Fuji, caused his going, just as this year it will bring her "wild strange things." Thus when she meets a stranger, Hale, and falls in love, Asano sees in him a tool of the cruel, laughing Tiger. Hale is merely youthfully flirtatious, but it is all beautiful reality to the girl. Before long...