Show CAN ALWAYS TRUST I 1 customs in celestial empire have made dishonesty scarce you soon lit in china that you can trust a chinaman to carry through anything ho agrees to to do tor car you says samuel morwin in fit success when I 1 reached tal tai yuan fu I 1 handed my iny interpreter a chinese draft for payable to bearer and told him to go to the bank and bring back tho the money I 1 had known john a little more than a week yet any one who knows china will understand that I 1 was running no appreciable risk tho the individual chinaman Is sini simply tily a part of a family tho the family Is part of a neighborhood tho the neighborhood lg Js part of a ellla village c or district and so on oil if john hall disappeared with my money after cashing tho the draft and afterward beon been caught punishment would have been swift and severe very likely ho would have lost his head if tile the authorities thorit ties les had been unable to find john they would have punished lits ilia family punishment would surely havo fallen on oil sonie somebody budy |