His father-in-law, a businessman, would want to see the "title deed Unable to think of a solution, he was prepared to return home ,brazen-faced and tell them that he had not obtained a degree One day as he was going to the Chinese bibliography section of the Ber lin library to see a German friend, he noticed on the floor a large stack of periodicals published in Shanghai during the first years of the Republic of China, including The Eastern Miscellany, Short Story Monthly, The Grand China, and the Women's MagazineHaving stopped to leaf leisurely through one, he happened to see an advertisement with Chinese and English parallel texts placed by the "Correspondence Division of the Carleton Institute of Law 12 and Commerce" in the city of New YorkIt stated that for those Chinese students who had the desire to study abroad but no opportunity to do 50, the school had special correspondence courses, upon completion of which certifi of the B M A or ees would be granted The cate equivalents degr brochures would be forwarded immediately upon request by writing to such and such a number and on such and such a street in New York City Fang's heart skipped a beatAs a good twenty years had elapsed since the date of the advertisement, he had no way of knowing whether the school still existed or notAt any rate sending off a letter of inquiry won't cost much, he thought The man who had placed the advertisement was actually a swindlerSince no Chinese was ever taken in, he had dropped it for another line of busi ness and died some time agoThe apartment he had lived in was now rented to an Irishman, with all the Irish irresponsibility, quick wit, and povertyIt is said that an Irishman's fortune consists of his two breasts and two but tocks, but this one, being a tall, thin Bernard Shaw-type of man, did not have much breast or buttocksWhen he came upon Fang's letter in his mailbox, he thought the mailman had made a mistakeBut the address was clearly his; so full of curiosity, he opened the letterGreatly puzzled, he mulled over it for a while, then leaped for joy He quickly borrowed a typewriter from a tabloid reporter next door and typed out the following reply: "Since you have been studying in a uni versity in Europe, your level of achievement must be quite high, making it unnecessary for you to go through the correspondence proceduresYou need only send a 10,000-word dissertation and enclose five hundred UAfter evaluating your qualifications, we will immediately forward to you a Ph Letters can be addressed to myself without having to write the name of the schoolSigned, Patrick Mahoney Underneath his name he conferred upon himself four or five doctoral titles When Fang saw the letter was written on ordinary stationery without the name of the school engraved on it, and as the contents clearly showed the school to be fraudulent, he put it aside and forgot about it The Irishman meanwhile grew impatient and sent off another letter stating that if Fang found the price too high, the price could be negotiatedHe himself had always loved China, and as an educator, he was particularly averse to profit-seekingFang mulled it over for a while, suspecting that the Irishman was undoubted ly up to tricksIf he bought a bogus diploma and went back to dupe other people with it, wouldn't he himself be a fraud? But, remember, Fang had once been a philosophy major, and to a philosophy major lying and cheating were not always immoralIn Plato's Ideal State soldiers were justified in fooling the enemy, doctors in fooling their patients, and officials in fooling the peopleA sage like Confucius had pretended to be ill in order to trick Ju Pei into leav 13 ing,'6 and even Mencius had lied to King Hsuan of Ch'i and pretended that he was ill'~ Since both his father and his father-in-law hoped he would be come a Ph how could he, a son and son-in-law, dare disappoint them? Buying a degree to deceive them was like purchasing an official rank in Man chu times,18 or like the merchants of a British colony contributing a few ten thousand pound notes to the royal exchequer in exchange for a knighthood, he reasonedEvery dutiful son and worthy son-in-law should seek to please his elders by bringing glory to the familyIn any case, when later it came time for him to look for a job, he would never include this degree in his resum

His father-in-law, a businessman, would want to see the "title deed Unable to think of a solution, he was prepared to return home ,brazen-faced and tell them that he had not obtained a degree One day as he was going to the Chinese bibliography section of the Ber lin library to see a German friend, he noticed on the floor a large stack of periodicals published in Shanghai during the first years of the Republic of China, including The Eastern Miscellany, Short Story Monthly, The Grand China, and the Women's MagazineHaving stopped to leaf leisurely through one, he happened to see an advertisement with Chinese and English parallel texts placed by the "Correspondence Division of the Carleton Institute of Law 12 and Commerce" in the city of New YorkIt stated that for those Chinese students who had the desire to study abroad but no opportunity to do 50, the school had special correspondence courses, upon completion of which certifi of the B M A or ees would be granted The cate equivalents degr brochures would be forwarded immediately upon request by writing to such and such a number and on such and such a street in New York City Fang's heart skipped a beatAs a good twenty years had elapsed since the date of the advertisement, he had no way of knowing whether the school still existed or notAt any rate sending off a letter of inquiry won't cost much, he thought The man who had placed the advertisement was actually a swindlerSince no Chinese was ever taken in, he had dropped it for another line of busi ness and died some time agoThe apartment he had lived in was now rented to an Irishman, with all the Irish irresponsibility, quick wit, and povertyIt is said that an Irishman's fortune consists of his two breasts and two but tocks, but this one, being a tall, thin Bernard Shaw-type of man, did not have much breast or buttocksWhen he came upon Fang's letter in his mailbox, he thought the mailman had made a mistakeBut the address was clearly his; so full of curiosity, he opened the letterGreatly puzzled, he mulled over it for a while, then leaped for joy He quickly borrowed a typewriter from a tabloid reporter next door and typed out the following reply: "Since you have been studying in a uni versity in Europe, your level of achievement must be quite high, making it unnecessary for you to go through the correspondence proceduresYou need only send a 10,000-word dissertation and enclose five hundred UAfter evaluating your qualifications, we will immediately forward to you a Ph Letters can be addressed to myself without having to write the name of the schoolSigned, Patrick Mahoney Underneath his name he conferred upon himself four or five doctoral titles When Fang saw the letter was written on ordinary stationery without the name of the school engraved on it, and as the contents clearly showed the school to be fraudulent, he put it aside and forgot about it The Irishman meanwhile grew impatient and sent off another letter stating that if Fang found the price too high, the price could be negotiatedHe himself had always loved China, and as an educator, he was particularly averse to profit-seekingFang mulled it over for a while, suspecting that the Irishman was undoubted ly up to tricksIf he bought a bogus diploma and went back to dupe other people with it, wouldn't he himself be a fraud? But, remember, Fang had once been a philosophy major, and to a philosophy major lying and cheating were not always immoralIn Plato's Ideal State soldiers were justified in fooling the enemy, doctors in fooling their patients, and officials in fooling the peopleA sage like Confucius had pretended to be ill in order to trick Ju Pei into leav 13 ing,'6 and even Mencius had lied to King Hsuan of Ch'i and pretended that he was ill'~ Since both his father and his father-in-law hoped he would be come a Ph how could he, a son and son-in-law, dare disappoint them? Buying a degree to deceive them was like purchasing an official rank in Man chu times,18 or like the merchants of a British colony contributing a few ten thousand pound notes to the royal exchequer in exchange for a knighthood, he reasonedEvery dutiful son and worthy son-in-law should seek to please his elders by bringing glory to the familyIn any case, when later it came time for him to look for a job, he would never include this degree in his resum

Harker seems to lose sight of her trouble for whole spellsIt is only now and again, when something recalls it to her mind, that she thinks of her terrible scarWe are to meet here in my study in half an hour and decide on our course of actionI see only one immediate difficulty, I know it by instinct rather than reasonWe shall all have to speak franklyAnd yet I fear that in some mysterious way poor MrsHarker's tongue is tiedI know that she forms conclusions of her own, and from all that has been I can guess how brilliant and how true they must beBut she will not, or cannot, give them utteranceI have mentioned this to Van Helsing, and he and I are to talk it over when we are aloneI suppose it is some of that horrid poison which has got into her veins beginning to workThe Count had his own purposes when he gave her what Van Helsing called "the Vampire's baptism of blood Well, there may be a poison that distills itself out of good thingsIn an age when the existence of ptomaines is a mystery we should not wonder at anything! One thing I know, that if my instinct be true regarding poor MrsHarker's silences, then there is a terrible difficulty, an unknown danger, in the work before usThe same power that compels her silence may compel her speechI dare not think further, for so I should in my thoughts dishonour a noble woman! Later-When the Professor came in, we talked over the state of thingsI could see that he had something on his mind, which he wanted to say, but felt some hesitancy about broaching the subjectAfter beating about the bush a little, he said, "Friend John, there is something that you and I must talk of alone, just at the first at any rateLater, we may have to take the others into our confidence Then he stopped, so I waitedHe went on, "Madam Mina, our poor, dear Madam Mina is changing A cold shiver ran through me to find my worst fears thus endorsedVan Helsing continued "With the sad experience of Miss Lucy, we must this time be warned before things go too farOur task is now in reality more difficult than ever, and this new trouble makes every hour of the direst importanceI can see the characteristics of the vampire coming in her faceIt is now but very, very slightBut it is to be seen if we have eyes to notice without prejudgeHer teeth are sharper, and at times her eyes are more hardBut these are not all, there is to her the silence now often, as so it was with Miss LucyShe did not speak, even when she wrote that which she wished to be known laterIf it be that she can, by our hypnotic trance, tell what the Count see and hear, is it not more true that he who have hypnotize her first, and who have drink of her very blood and make her drink of his, should if he will, compel her mind to disclose to him that which she know?" I nodded acquiescenceHe went on, "Then, what we must do is to prevent thisWe must keep her ignorant of our intent, and so she cannot tell what she know notThis is a painful task! Oh, so painful that it heartbreak me to think of it, but it must beWhen today we meet, I must tell her that for reason which we will not to speak she must not more be of our council, but be simply guarded by us He wiped his forehead, which had broken out in profuse perspiration at the thought of the pain which he might have to inflict upon the poor soul already so torturedI knew that it would be some sort of comfort to him if I told him that I also had come to the same shop conclusion

Harker seems to lose sight of her trouble for whole spellsIt is only now and again, when something recalls it to her mind, that she thinks of her terrible scarWe are to meet here in my study in half an hour and decide on our course of actionI see only one immediate difficulty, I know it by instinct rather than reasonWe shall all have to speak franklyAnd yet I fear that in some mysterious way poor MrsHarker's tongue is tiedI know that she forms conclusions of her own, and from all that has been I can guess how brilliant and how true they must beBut she will not, or cannot, give them utteranceI have mentioned this to Van Helsing, and he and I are to talk it over when we are aloneI suppose it is some of that horrid poison which has got into her veins beginning to workThe Count had his own purposes when he gave her what Van Helsing called "the Vampire's baptism of blood Well, there may be a poison that distills itself out of good thingsIn an age when the existence of ptomaines is a mystery we should not wonder at anything! One thing I know, that if my instinct be true regarding poor MrsHarker's silences, then there is a terrible difficulty, an unknown danger, in the work before usThe same power that compels her silence may compel her speechI dare not think further, for so I should in my thoughts dishonour a noble woman! Later-When the Professor came in, we talked over the state of thingsI could see that he had something on his mind, which he wanted to say, but felt some hesitancy about broaching the subjectAfter beating about the bush a little, he said, "Friend John, there is something that you and I must talk of alone, just at the first at any rateLater, we may have to take the others into our confidence Then he stopped, so I waitedHe went on, "Madam Mina, our poor, dear Madam Mina is changing A cold shiver ran through me to find my worst fears thus endorsedVan Helsing continued "With the sad experience of Miss Lucy, we must this time be warned before things go too farOur task is now in reality more difficult than ever, and this new trouble makes every hour of the direst importanceI can see the characteristics of the vampire coming in her faceIt is now but very, very slightBut it is to be seen if we have eyes to notice without prejudgeHer teeth are sharper, and at times her eyes are more hardBut these are not all, there is to her the silence now often, as so it was with Miss LucyShe did not speak, even when she wrote that which she wished to be known laterIf it be that she can, by our hypnotic trance, tell what the Count see and hear, is it not more true that he who have hypnotize her first, and who have drink of her very blood and make her drink of his, should if he will, compel her mind to disclose to him that which she know?" I nodded acquiescenceHe went on, "Then, what we must do is to prevent thisWe must keep her ignorant of our intent, and so she cannot tell what she know notThis is a painful task! Oh, so painful that it heartbreak me to think of it, but it must beWhen today we meet, I must tell her that for reason which we will not to speak she must not more be of our council, but be simply guarded by us He wiped his forehead, which had broken out in profuse perspiration at the thought of the pain which he might have to inflict upon the poor soul already so torturedI knew that it would be some sort of comfort to him if I told him that I also had come to the same shop conclusion

Harker seems to lose sight of her trouble for whole spellsIt is only now and again, when something recalls it to her mind, that she thinks of her terrible scarWe are to meet here in my study in half an hour and decide on our course of actionI see only one immediate difficulty, I know it by instinct rather than reasonWe shall all have to speak franklyAnd yet I fear that in some mysterious way poor MrsHarker's tongue is tiedI know that she forms conclusions of her own, and from all that has been I can guess how brilliant and how true they must beBut she will not, or cannot, give them utteranceI have mentioned this to Van Helsing, and he and I are to talk it over when we are aloneI suppose it is some of that horrid poison which has got into her veins beginning to workThe Count had his own purposes when he gave her what Van Helsing called "the Vampire's baptism of blood Well, there may be a poison that distills itself out of good thingsIn an age when the existence of ptomaines is a mystery we should not wonder at anything! One thing I know, that if my instinct be true regarding poor MrsHarker's silences, then there is a terrible difficulty, an unknown danger, in the work before usThe same power that compels her silence may compel her speechI dare not think further, for so I should in my thoughts dishonour a noble woman! Later-When the Professor came in, we talked over the state of thingsI could see that he had something on his mind, which he wanted to say, but felt some hesitancy about broaching the subjectAfter beating about the bush a little, he said, "Friend John, there is something that you and I must talk of alone, just at the first at any rateLater, we may have to take the others into our confidence Then he stopped, so I waitedHe went on, "Madam Mina, our poor, dear Madam Mina is changing A cold shiver ran through me to find my worst fears thus endorsedVan Helsing continued "With the sad experience of Miss Lucy, we must this time be warned before things go too farOur task is now in reality more difficult than ever, and this new trouble makes every hour of the direst importanceI can see the characteristics of the vampire coming in her faceIt is now but very, very slightBut it is to be seen if we have eyes to notice without prejudgeHer teeth are sharper, and at times her eyes are more hardBut these are not all, there is to her the silence now often, as so it was with Miss LucyShe did not speak, even when she wrote that which she wished to be known laterIf it be that she can, by our hypnotic trance, tell what the Count see and hear, is it not more true that he who have hypnotize her first, and who have drink of her very blood and make her drink of his, should if he will, compel her mind to disclose to him that which she know?" I nodded acquiescenceHe went on, "Then, what we must do is to prevent thisWe must keep her ignorant of our intent, and so she cannot tell what she know notThis is a painful task! Oh, so painful that it heartbreak me to think of it, but it must beWhen today we meet, I must tell her that for reason which we will not to speak she must not more be of our council, but be simply guarded by us He wiped his forehead, which had broken out in profuse perspiration at the thought of the pain which he might have to inflict upon the poor soul already so torturedI knew that it would be some sort of comfort to him if I told him that I also had come to the same shop conclusion