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[[underline]] Chapter XII. [[/underline]] 252.

partment to Miss Furscott.  On the evening of June 20th we arrived in Peking, where Mrs. Wenley had secured quarters for Miss Furscott; and our difficulties were over.

[[underline]] Conditions in Peking. [[/underline]]
I found less excitement and animosity against foreigners as such in Peking than farther south, although there were student demonstrations, coupled with demands for the abolition of the extraterritorial rights enjoyed by foreigners.  The streets were doubly policed, and the sentries at the various legations has been increased in number.  On June 26th Mr. Wenley and I attended a meeting of the (local) American Association, called to concert measures to be taken in case of an anti-foreign outbreak.  Beyond this, affairs seemed to manifest no particular cause for apprehension.
I learned however, to my regret, that Mr. Ch'iu's nearly completed negotiations with Gov. Yen, of Shansi, for permission to dig at Fang Shan, in the northern part of that province, had been help up.  This was partly on account of the prevalent anti-foreign feeling, and partly because the governor feared that Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, the so-called "Christian general", might attack him during the summer, and try to seize the arsenal at T'ai-yuan Fu, the capital of the province.

[[underline]] We move our Headquarters to Peitaiho for the Summer. [[/underline]]
On June 30th, Mr. and Mrs. Wenley and Miss Furscott and I, accompanied by Mr. Wenley's Chinese teacher, Mr. Wang Pai-yen, left Peking for Peitaiho, where we had arranged to occupy Dr. H. M. Houghton's summer cottage in his own and his family's absence from China.
During the nexk few weeks I had several long talks with Dr. Tsao in regard to cooperative field-work, for which we agreed