I have reason to believe that the negotiations between Prince Shan and Oscar Immelan have not been entirely successful.
Send for Prince Shan and question him in a friendly fashion." "Will you be my ambassador ?" the Prime Minister asked.
Nigel hesitated for a moment.
"If you wish it," he promised.

"Prince Shan is in some respects a strangely inaccessible person, but just at present he seems well disposed towards my household." "Arrange, if you can," Mr.Mervin Brown begged, "to bring him here to-morrow morning.

I will try to have available a copy of the dispatch from Jesson.

It refers to matters which I trust Prince Shan will be able to explain." Nigel lingered for a moment over his farewell.
"If I might venture upon a suggestion, sir," he said, "do not forget that Prince Shan is to all intents and purposes the autocrat of Asia.

He has taught the people of the world to remodel their ideas of China and all that China stands for.