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The
last
was
barely
audible
,
for
by
this
time
the
ki-sang
had
stuffed
his
mouth
to
speechlessness
.
As
I
have
said
,
I
had
the
will
and
the
fearlessness
,
and
I
racked
my
sea-cuny
brains
for
the
wit
.
A
palace
eunuch
,
tickling
my
neck
with
a
feather
from
behind
,
gave
me
my
start
.
I
had
already
drawn
attention
by
my
aloofness
and
imperviousness
to
the
attacks
of
the
ki-sang
,
so
that
many
were
looking
on
at
the
eunuch
's
baiting
of
me
.
I
gave
no
sign
,
made
no
move
,
until
I
had
located
him
and
distanced
him
.
Then
,
like
a
shot
,
without
turning
head
or
body
,
merely
by
my
arm
I
fetched
him
an
open
,
back-handed
slap
.
My
knuckles
landed
flat
on
his
cheek
and
jaw
.
There
was
a
crack
like
a
spar
parting
in
a
gale
.
He
was
bowled
clean
over
,
landing
in
a
heap
on
the
floor
a
dozen
feet
away
.
There
was
no
laughter
,
only
cries
of
surprise
and
murmurings
and
whisperings
of
"
Yi
Yong-ik
.
"
Again
I
folded
my
arms
and
stood
with
a
fine
assumption
of
haughtiness
.
I
do
believe
that
I
,
Adam
Strang
,
had
among
other
things
the
soul
of
an
actor
in
me
.
For
see
what
follows
.
I
was
now
the
most
significant
of
our
company
.
Proud-eyed
,
disdainful
,
I
met
unwavering
the
eyes
upon
me
and
made
them
drop
,
or
turn
away
--
all
eyes
but
one
.
These
were
the
eyes
of
a
young
woman
,
whom
I
judged
,
by
richness
of
dress
and
by
the
half-dozen
women
fluttering
at
her
back
,
to
be
a
court
lady
of
distinction
.
In
truth
,
she
was
the
Lady
Om
,
princess
of
the
house
of
Min
.
Did
I
say
young
?
She
was
fully
my
own
age
,
thirty
,
and
for
all
that
and
her
ripeness
and
beauty
a
princess
still
unmarried
,
as
I
was
to
learn
.
She
alone
looked
me
in
the
eyes
without
wavering
until
it
was
I
who
turned
away
.
She
did
not
look
me
down
,
for
there
was
neither
challenge
nor
antagonism
in
her
eyes
--
only
fascination
.
I
was
loth
to
admit
this
defeat
by
one
small
woman
,
and
my
eyes
,
turning
aside
,
lighted
on
the
disgraceful
rout
of
my
comrades
and
the
trailing
ki-sang
and
gave
me
the
pretext
.
I
clapped
my
hands
in
the
Asiatic
fashion
when
one
gives
command
.
"
Let
be
!
"
I
thundered
in
their
own
language
,
and
in
the
form
one
addressee
underlings
.
Oh
,
I
had
a
chest
and
a
throat
,
and
could
bull-roar
to
the
hurt
of
ear-drums
.
I
warrant
so
loud
a
command
had
never
before
cracked
the
sacred
air
of
the
Emperor
's
palace
.
The
great
room
was
aghast
.
The
women
were
startled
,
and
pressed
toward
one
another
as
for
safety
.
The
ki-sang
released
the
cunies
and
shrank
away
giggling
apprehensively
.
Only
the
Lady
Om
made
no
sign
nor
motion
but
continued
to
gaze
wide-eyed
into
my
eyes
which
had
returned
to
hers
.
Then
fell
a
great
silence
,
as
if
all
waited
some
word
of
doom
.
A
multitude
of
eyes
timidly
stole
back
and
forth
from
the
Emperor
to
me
and
from
me
to
the
Emperor
.
And
I
had
wit
to
keep
the
silence
and
to
stand
there
,
arms
folded
,
haughty
and
remote
.
"
He
speaks
our
language
,
"
quoth
the
Emperor
at
the
last
;
and
I
swear
there
was
such
a
relinquishment
of
held
breaths
that
the
whole
room
was
one
vast
sigh
.
"
I
was
born
with
this
language
,
"
I
replied
,
my
cuny
wits
running
rashly
to
the
first
madness
that
prompted
.
"
I
spoke
it
at
my
mother
's
breast
.
I
was
the
marvel
of
my
land
.
Wise
men
journeyed
far
to
see
me
and
to
hear
.
But
no
man
knew
the
words
I
spoke
.
In
the
many
years
since
I
have
forgotten
much
,
but
now
,
in
Cho-Sen
,
the
words
come
back
like
long-lost
friends
.
"
