1900] Nagasaki Again 



the girls ! All were naturally lonely and worried, with 

 nothing to do but wait in the heat for news from 

 Peking. 



Refugees from China, also, soon began to crowd The lady 

 the hotels. Entering our own one day, I observed re * ents 

 an American woman of muscular build and deter- 

 mined expression telling the clerk what she thought 

 of him and his inability to answer her questions. 

 When I ventured to interrupt by giving the desired 

 information, she turned on me fiercely and said: 

 " Young man, when I want to hear anything from 

 you, I'll let you know/' The next moment she sud- 

 denly dropped to the floor all the packages with which 

 her arms were full, and exclaimed: "Why, Dr. 

 Jordan, I'm so delighted to see you! I'm Mrs. 

 . You will remember my son at Stanford." 



I did remember the youth very well, for on his way 

 from New York to enter the University, he had wired 

 me to meet him at the Palo Alto station at a certain 

 hour. Having incautiously shown the telegram to a TOO 

 colleague, I was afterward amused to hear that 

 though I myself failed, the newcomer was welcomed 

 by a hundred or more uproarious students who gave 

 him so enthusiastic a greeting that, for a moment at 

 least, he felt quite at home ! 



The story of events at Peking during the Boxer 

 uprising, as it came to me through refugees, is faith- 

 fully related in "Indiscreet Letters from Peking" 

 by an Englishman (Lennox Simpson) who writes under 

 the pen name of Putnam Weale. Of the many sug- Putnam 

 gestive things in the book, one paragraph stands out Wede 

 especially in my memory. Referring to a statement 

 attributed to Lord Kitchener, the author says : 



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