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[[underlined]] Chapter III. [[/underlined]]   55.

   The following forenoon we spent in photographing the bronzes at the general's yamên. We then had a pleasant luncheon with him and his staff, after which we boarded the afternoon train, bound for Peking. The Parliament, early in October, chose the "Super-Tuchun", Ts'ao Kun [[Chinese characters]], President of the Chinese Republic. The expected disturbances failed to materialize, and all in all we felt that our prospects of accomplishing something in the field had decidedly improved.