It was probably a plot against my own life.

Those things are more common with us, perhaps, than over here." "Jolly country, China, I should think," one of the younger members of the group remarked.

"You can buy a man's conscience there for ninepence." Prince Shan looked across at the speaker gravely.
"The market value here," he observed, "seems a little higher, but the supply greater." "_Touche_!" Karschoff laughed.

"There is another point of view, too.

The further east you go, the less value life has.