"You don't know what I've endured." "Trading over the border alone ?" Gregory inquired.
The man shook his head.
"Tried to walk across from Pekin," he said, "_via_ Szechuen and Yunnan.
Nearly died of dysentery in Yunnan city.

While I was there my servants deserted me, taking with them every halfpenny I possessed.

Being suspected by the Mandarins, I was thrown into prison, managed eventually to escape, and so made my way on here.

I thought to-day was going to prove my last." "You have had a hard time of it, by Jove," said Dempsey; "but you've managed to come out of it alive.

And now where are you going ?" "I want, if possible, to get to Rangoon," the other replied.