CHAPTER XII

OF PLOTS AND A PLAN IN the train next day they had the compartment to themselves, and they studied Li Ning’s plan in detail. Originally, being intended for Chen Lun only, any writing had been in Chinese; but some one, presumably Chen Lun himself, had added English translations in very fine printing, so that the directions were clear. It was little more than a tortuous pathway, marked among the rocks, winding here and there. Some of the boulders were roughly drawn: others had names—Camel Rock; Lion Rock; Serpent Roc…