It produced for the moment dizziness in all present.

Then the sensation cleared away.

The Chinaman at the right of Li Choo looked steadfastly at him; then, all at once, he bared his shoulders and quickly bound a piece of sackcloth round his head.

This done, he raised his voice and cried out with a monotonous ululation, and at once a second voice cried out in a long wailing call.
Outside Li Choo's kinsman, with his face turned to the north, was calling his spirit back, though he knew it would not come.
At the first sound of the voice crying outside, the Chinaman beside Li Choo leaped thrice in front of the brazier, the mat and the moveless body.
At that moment the Young Doctor came forward.

He who had leaped stood between him and the body of Li Choo.
"You must not come.