The great bell of Pekings

Title: The great bell of Pekings
Creator: retold by Latsch, Elizabeth
Language: English
Year: 1936
Rights
Abstract: "Just as Ko-ai had finished singing her song of spring from The Book of Jade, she saw her mother approaching her in great distress. ""Koai,"" her mother called out, ""Thy beloved father has returned from the Great City. I fear him. He is a sick man and grown very old in the service of the Emperor."" Ko-ai dropped her embroidery work and ran into the house. ""What if my father should fail a second time? It would mean death to him and· the green robe of disgrace for me. In some manner must he be rescued, though I climb the mountain pinnacles of the Jade Pass and pray that the cold stars themselves reach out their beams of frozen light to help my father?"" Ko-ai found no means of helping her father. Its notes rang out clearly, ""Ko-ai, Ko-ai, sell all your jewels and go to the Astrologer-Ko-ai, Ko-ai."" ""Go to the Astrologer: go to the Astrologer,"" continued to ring in Ko-ai's ears.
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Description: Continued and concluded from the December Number