He eagerly
enforced Prince Djiddin's request that no curious strangers shoud
be allowed to force themselves on him, no matter of what lofty rank.
Prince Djiddin was wrapped in the veil of a solemn personal seclusion.
And to this end Simpson, now the butler of the "Banker's Folly,"
was especially assigned to wait upon the austere "Prince Djiddin" as
his "body servant." Only one visit of state was exchanged between
"Prince Djiddin" and General Wragge, Her Majesty's Commander
of the Channel Islands. The "Moonshee," with a sober dignity, had
interpreted for the British Commander of the Manche, and in due
state, a return visite de ceremonie to General Wagge's mansion and
headquarters strangely found Captain Anson Anstruther, A.D.C. of
the Viceroy of India, a pilgrim to St. Heliers, to arrange secretly
for "Prince Djiddin's" safe conduct and return to Thibet. The
curious society crowd and St. Heliers's beautiful women envied
Captain Anstruther his three hours conference with the "Asiatic
lion."
By day, in the vaulted library, Andrew Fraser pored over the weird
stories of Runjeet Singh, of Aurung zebe, of King Dharma, and the
Cashmerian priest who came with Buddha's first message to Thibet!
The story of the marvelous royal babe found floating in the
Ganges, in a copper box, a century before Christ, the tales of the
"Konchogsum," the "Buddha jewel," the "doctrine jewel," and the
"priesthood jewel" fed the burning fever of old Fraser's senile
mind.
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