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ISAAC TAYLOR HEADLAND'S THREE BOOKS THAT "LINK EAST AND WEST"
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Smith, "reviled the Empress Dowager and the conservatives in the
most blood-curdling manner."
I have already spoken of Wang Chao the secretary of the Board of
Rites who presented the memorial which caused the dismissal of
the six officials of that body, and, indirectly, the fall of the
Emperor. Some time before writing this petition he called at our
home requesting Mrs. Headland to go and see his mother who was
ill. When his mother recovered he sent her to Shanghai, and at
the time of the coup d'etat he failed to get out of the city and
went into hiding. Some days afterwards a closed cart drove up to
our home and to our astonishment he stepped forth. We expressed
our surprise that he was still in Peking, and asked:
"Has the Empress Dowager ceased prosecuting her search for you
reformers?"
"Not yet," he answered.
"And what is she doing?" we inquired.
"Killing some, banishing others, driving many away from the
capital, while still others are going into self-imposed exile."
"Does the Emperor know anything about this?" we inquired.
"No doubt," he replied. "Everybody knows it, why not he?"
"That will make his imprisonment all the harder to bear," we
suggested.
"Quite right," he answered.
"There is general alarm in the city that the Emperor himself will
be disposed of; what do you think about it?"
"Who can tell? He has not a friend in the palace except the first
concubine, and, I am told, that she like himself is kept in close
confinement
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