“It’s a vile4 country,” said he to Quong Ho, who had handed him the letter on returning from his weekly visit to the town. “It’s a pettifogging, police-ridden land, where a man, if he so chooses, can’t bury himself decently. I’m sure the King is not aware of this unwarranted interference with the liberty of one of the most self-effacing of his subjects.”
“My mind was in half,” replied Quong Ho, “to destroy the missive which I conjectured5 would cause you annoyance6.”
“It’s a good thing you didn’t. The King is an amiable7 gentleman, but the High Mandarins from whom this proceeds are not to be trifled with.” He glanced through the papers. “It is well,” said he, with a sigh of relief. “The High Mandarins around the Throne are as yet ignorant of my whereabouts; but if I refused to obey this invitation, they would soon learn it. It is a pestilential minor8 official in the vicinity who for the sake of money—it’s his disgusting mode of livelihood—has violated my solitude9.”
“In the New China,” said Quong Ho, “we hope to do away with the bureaucracy, which is a parasite10 on civilization.”
“You won’t do it,” said Baltazar. “In the New Jerusalem—by which we mean the Kingdom of Heaven—there is a Recording11 Angel, and you may bet your boots he has got his staff of officials who write minutes and fill up forms all Eternity12 long.”
“Perfection,” remarked Quong Ho, “is to be found neither in this world nor the next, but only in that harmonious13 principle of the soul which is termed li in the Confucian philosophy.”
“Quong Ho,” said Baltazar in Chinese, “your wisdom befits rather the honourable14 white beard of the teacher than the smooth-shaven chin of the pupil of five-and-twenty.”
Quong Ho bowed respectfully at the compliment and withdrew.
“Confound the Income Tax!” said Baltazar, looking through the papers. He had completely forgotten his liability. The sudden reminder15 vexed16 him. Of course he must pay; but his income being exclusively derived17 from investments, all of which were taxed at the source before the dividend18 warrants were paid automatically into his account at his bankers’, why should he be worried? He resented the intrusion on his privacy.
A week later Quong Ho posted the form in the ironically provided, penny-saving official envelope, and Baltazar dismissed the incident from his mind.
When some time afterwards his assessment paper arrived, it caused him some astonishment19. He cast his memory back twenty years. In 1896 the Income Tax, if he remembered rightly, was inconsiderable, some sixpence in the pound. Now it was half a crown. He filled up the form, an easy task, thinking less than ever of the social condition of Modern England; such high direct taxation20 could only mean the desperate financial straits of a decadent21 country. Well, as far as he was concerned, the loss of one-eighth of his income did not matter. The initial expenses of his installation at Spendale Farm over, he scarcely spent a third of it.
The next disturbing document that found its way to Spendale Farm contained a searching series of questions, headed “National Registration22.”
“I am ceasing to regard England as a fit place to live in,” said he, with some petulance23. “This is Mandarinism run riot.”
A few weeks afterwards he received a neat little card folded in two, on the outside of which was printed a vile semblance24 of the Royal Coat of Arms and “National Registration Act, 1915,” and inside a certificate of the Registration of (a) John Baltazar, (b) Philosophical26 Investigator—for as such had he irritably27 described himself—(c) of Spendale Farm, Water-End. There was a space for the signature of Holder28, and below it in great capitals “God Save the King.” On the back were directions as to change of address.
“God knows what’s coming over the country,” said he. “It appears that a free-born Englishman has got to carry about his police papers, as people have to do in disgusting countries like Germany and Russia. What about you, Quong Ho? Have you got a pretty little document like this?”
“I am registered as an alien,” replied Quong Ho.
“It seems to me,” said Baltazar, “that when I used to gas to you about our free British institutions I was nothing but an ignorant liar29.”
“By no means, sir,” replied Quong Ho politely. “The keynote of the modern world is change. What was true of material things yesterday is a lie to-day.”
“How did you discover that?”
“I assume the little town of Water-End to be but a microcosm of Great Britain.”
“Why,” laughed Baltazar, “what signs of change do you see there?”
Quong Ho remained for a moment silent, and his face assumed its Oriental impassivity. If he reported to his master the astounding30 events that were taking place, even at Water-End, whose quiet High Street was a-bustle with newly fledged soldiery from the moorland camp three miles on the further side, he would not only risk the dissolution of the establishment, but would be guilty of filial disobedience, which was impiety31. And the European War, after all, how could it concern him, Li Quong Ho? Perhaps, too, his master, foreseeing the tempest, particularly desired to take shelter and hear nothing at all about it. He was fortunate enough, however, to find a perfectly32 true reply to Baltazar’s question. He smiled in some relief; for an intellectual Chinaman, trained in the lofty morality of the Chinese classics, does not willingly lie.
“It is a woman and not a man who now delivers the letters in Water-End.”
Baltazar continued to laugh: “They’ll be driving the motor-cars soon.”
“I’ve seen them doing it,” said Quong Ho.
“I’m not surprised,” said his master. “They were tending that way a year ago. These new women are out for the devirilization of man. Perhaps by this time they’re in Parliament, passing firework legislation and playing the devil with all our laws and customs. You haven’t yet heard, by any chance, whether the occupation of monthly nursing is confined exclusively to the male sex?”
“The enactment33, if such there be,” replied Quong Ho solemnly, “is not, to my knowledge, in force in this remote locality.”
“Let us thank the gods, Quong Ho,” said Baltazar, “that we’re out of this feminist34 hurly-burly. The little I saw of the movement was antipathetic to my philosophy of life. A society in which women regard the bearing of children as a physical accident of no account, and deny the responsibilities which such an event entails35, must be doomed36 to decay, or, at the best, to bitter disillusionment. The more I hear of contemporary England the less I like it. It seems to be woman-ridden; curiously37 enough by two camps in apparent opposition38, but in reality waging joint39 warfare40 on man. The world has never yet beheld41 such a sex campaign. One section demands luxury beyond the dreams of Byzantium at its rottenest, and the other claims supreme42 political power.”
“It is well, sir,” said Quong Ho, “that you repudiated43 the imbecile suggestion of the House Agent to the effect that you should employ a woman housekeeper44 of mature age to superintend this establishment.”
“It is lucky for you, Quong Ho, that I did,” grinned Baltazar. “She would have made you sit up.”
Quong Ho, with clasped hands and lowered head, respectfully asserted himself. “If I do not sit up sufficiently45 for your satisfaction, sir, it is for you to reprimand me.”
“I will make a note of it,” replied Quong Ho.
“By such notation48 and accumulation of detail one gathers knowledge,” said Baltazar. “By co-ordination one acquires wisdom. Continue on this, the only path of philosophy, and your old age will be blessed. In the meantime, please keep your observations of changes at Water-End to yourself.”
“Obedience to your honourable commands, my master,” replied Quong Ho, in Chinese, “is the sacred duty of this entirely49 inconsiderable person. But may one so inferior as myself humbly50 remind your illustrious greatness that it was you who originally propounded51 to me a question which I was bound to answer.”
“The fact that I did so,” replied Baltazar, “you may note as an instance of the human fallibility of the sublimest52 minds. Fear not but that I will profit by your lesson.”
He waved a dismissing hand. Quong Ho bowed with the perfect ceremonial of pupil taking leave of master and retired53. Baltazar threw himself into his arm-chair and laughed aloud.
So while Baltazar delighted in the unhumorous literalness of the Chinaman, it never occurred to him that he was the dupe of the unhumorous literalness of the Chinaman’s fidelity55; that while he was inveighing56 against speculative57 phenomena58 of an ill-understood movement, the trumpet59 of war had transformed that movement into an apotheosis60 of feminine effort of which Quong Ho, keenly intellectual, was perfectly well aware; and that it was only by the pious61 grace of his pupil and servant that he lived a day in his fool’s paradise.
When Quong Ho, a week afterwards, brought him his meagre mail, he angrily crushed in his fist and threw aside the enclosure of the first envelope which he had opened.
“I’m hanged if this isn’t a begging circular! It’s infernal impudence62! It’s an intolerable outrage63 on one’s personal liberty. Here, Quong Ho!”—he swept the remainder of the mail into the Chinaman’s hand. “Don’t let me be worried with any more letters. I’ve come down here to be quiet and not to be badgered. If there are bills to pay, make out the cheques and I’ll sign them. If there are circulars, throw them away. About anything else use your discretion64.”
“I will exactly execute your orders,” replied Quong Ho.
Thus Baltazar finally severed65 relations between himself and the outside world. Quong Ho acted the perfect Private Secretary. The only letters presented to his master for perusal66 were rare business communications from booksellers instructed to purchase some out-of-the-way and possibly expensive book. Circular letters, containing appeals for subscriptions67, which poured in, as soon as Baltazar’s name eventually found its way on the address-lists of the neighbourhood, Quong Ho conscientiously68 destroyed. Using his discretion, he withheld69 letters from the Bank inviting70 investments in War Loans. Such, in his opinion, were further intrusions on the sacred privacy of his master. And thus the weeks and months passed by; and Quong Ho, in touch with even such an outpost of civilization as the tiny moorland town and bringing to that contact the most highly trained incuriosity, could not avoid gathering71 the current tidings of the vast world conflict; but, faithful to his commands, he said never a word to Baltazar, gave never a hint of the stupendous convulsion in which the world was involved. And while his master, serene72 doctrinaire73, discoursed74 on the political science of the nineties, now being blown to smithereens by German guns, he maintained the reverential attitude of the disciple75, drinking in as gospel truth the wisdom of his inspired teacher.
One evening, when Baltazar had praised the clear solution of certain problems which he had set in Differential Equations, and prophesied76 a glorious career for the most brilliant mathematician77 China had ever produced, Quong Ho, after gratefully acknowledging the encomium78, said:
“If you will forgive my indiscretion, I should like to ask a question. Why is it, sir, that you, who take such great interest in the future—for example, my inconsiderable and negligible prospects79, and the benefits that will accrue80 to humanity on the publication of the thought-shaking results of your own profound researches,—should be so indifferent to the present condition of the world?”
“For the simple reason, my good fellow,” replied Baltazar, “that, from what I have observed, the present condition of mankind—from China to Peru, as your newly found friend Dr. Johnson says—is putrescent. The best way in which we can serve mankind is to do what we’re doing now—to provide for the intellectual development of the future generation.”
“The proposition is unanswerable,” said Quong Ho. “But suppose, sir, for the sake of argument, that a philosophic25 observation of the civilized81 world as it is should result in the conclusion that, in the English idiom, it is proceeding82 fast to the devils—what is the duty of the man of high morality?”
“To let it go slap-dash,” said Baltazar. “The faster and surer, the better. For then the sooner will the eternal rhythm, the eternal principle of balance, assert itself. When a society is rushing down to Gadarene suicide——”
“I beg your pardon, sir,” interrupted the alert Quong Ho. “Gad—I do not understand the word.”
“Read the Gospel according to St. Mark to-morrow. You’ve heard of St. Mark?”
“You might as well ask me, sir, if I had heard of Confucius or Homer, or the immortal83 Todhunter of my childhood.”
“The immensity of your purview86, Quong Ho, is only equalled by your lightning perception of landmarks87. Anyhow, read St. Mark over again, and tell me your opinion of the swine of Gadara. For the moment, I’d have you know that you’ve interrupted my argument. I was saying that if everything’s going to the devil—that’s the correct idiom—not proceeding to devils——”
“May I make a note of it?” said Quong Ho, scribbling88 the phrase across his mathematical manuscript.
Baltazar rose from his chair by the long deal table and relit his pipe over the chimney of a lamp.
“You’ve put me out. What the blazes were we talking about?”
“The present world condition,” replied Quong Ho.
“Then I assert,” said Baltazar, “that the present state of the world is rotten. It’s no place for intellectual reformers like you and me. What are the words of Confucius known to every schoolboy? ‘With sincerity89 and truth unite a desire for self-culture. Lay down your life rather than quit the path of virtue90. Enter not a state which is tottering91 to its fall. When Law obtains in the Empire let yourself be seen: when lawlessness reigns92, retire into obscurity.’?”
“But supposing,” persisted Quong Ho, “the state of the devil-driven world is of vital interest?”
“It can be of vital interest only to those hurtling down to destruction. To us, who have retired into the obscure aloofness93 recommended by the great philosopher, it can be of no possible concern.”
“It is well,” said Quong Ho.
“I know it is,” remarked Baltazar, with a yawn. “Another night let us have a slightly more intelligent conversation.”
Quong Ho retired, his conscience finally set at rest. After all, was not his master right? What could he do of any use in the world rudely at war? Was he not serving the truest interests of humanity by retiring at this juncture94 and devoting the harvest of his great learning to a future generation?
“Soldiers,” said Quong Ho the next day, looking into the unspeculative topaz eyes of the goat which he had been milking, “are as numerous as the sands of the desert, and politicians as the mosquitoes in a swamp; they are swept away and the world misses them not; but philosophers are rare, and the loss of one of them is a supreme world calamity95.”
“Baa-a-a!” said the goat.
“I perceive that you too have wisdom,” said Quong Ho. “You appreciate the privilege of living under the same roof as the illustrious Baltazar.”
He burst into an unaccustomed laugh. Conversation with a goat appealed to his prim46 sense of humour. But all the same, he expressed his own deeply-rooted conviction. To the keen-brained young Chinaman, Baltazar appeared as a man of stupendous intellectual force. His knowledge of the abstract sciences of the Western world would have commanded his respect; but his vast Chinese erudition, acknowledged with admiration96 by Mandarins and scholars and other Great Ones of China, gave Quong Ho cause for a veneration97 reaching almost to idolatry.
Also Baltazar, for all his patriarchal years, earned his pupil’s respect as a man of marvellous muscle and endurance. During the winter, when the inclemency98 of the weather forbade agricultural pursuits—and on that moorland waste the weather abandoned itself to every capricious devildom within meteorological possibilities—Baltazar, having ordered a set of gloves from London, gave boxing lessons to his disciple. At first Quong Ho was shocked. How could so contemptible99 a person as he ever make a pretence100 of smiting101 the highly honourable face of his master? Baltazar bade him try. He would give him an hour’s extra private tuition for every hit. And Quong Ho, encouraged by so splendid a prize, tried, at first diffidently, then earnestly, then zealously102, then desperately103, then bald-headedly, but never a wild blow could pass the easy guard of his smiling master.
“You see, Quong Ho, it’s a science,” said Baltazar. “Now I’m going to hit you.” And he feinted and struck out with his left and sent his disciple swinging across the room. “It is also a game,” he added, holding up his hand, “because what I have just done did not hurt you in the least.”
“Here endeth the First Lesson,” said Baltazar. “The English etiquette105 now requires that we should shake hands.”
When they had gone through the formality Baltazar continued:
“You of all non-English people oughtn’t to be astonished. Did not the same ceremony exist in your country over two thousand years ago? Is it not referred to in the Analects?”
“Sir,” said the breathless and perspiring106 Quong Ho, “I have unworthily forgotten.”
“Did not the Master say: ‘The true gentleman is never contentious107. If a spirit of rivalry108 is anywhere unavoidable, it is at a shooting-match. Yet even here he courteously109 salutes110 his opponents before taking up his position’—we ought to have shaken hands before starting, but we’ll do it next time—‘and again when, having lost, he retires to drink the forfeit-cup’—your forfeit-cup being the loss of the extra hours of tuition. ‘So that even when competing, he remains111 a true gentleman.’?”
“I remember now,” said Quong Ho.
“I’m glad you do,” replied Baltazar. “That is the lofty spirit in which we shall continue this exceedingly health-giving science and pastime.”
And they continued. The young Chinaman, lithe112, hard, physically113 perfect, little more than half the age of his tutor, devoted114 himself, with his Chinese assiduity, to the mastery of the fascinating art, and succeeded eventually in giving Baltazar most interesting encounters; he realized that fierce blows planted on venerable features were taken, nay115 applauded, in the spirit of the Confucian gentleman; he also accepted in the same gentlemanly way the hammering that he invariably received. It was after some months of this training, when he was able to discount merely superior science, that he bowed down before Baltazar not only as before an intellect, but as before a marvellous physical man.
There came a truce116, however—the following winter—when Baltazar, wise in his elderly generation, foresaw the inevitable117 supremacy118 of youth, and ordered new toys from London—foils, masks and fencing jackets. The gloves mouldered119 in a broken-down potting-shed, and Quong Ho again started, as a tyro120, to learn a new athletic121 accomplishment122. Thus in his disciple’s sound body Baltazar contrived123 to maintain a sound and humble124 mind. He knew that he was held in deep respect by Quong Ho. But it never occurred to his careless mind that Quong Ho regarded him as a kind of god. He accepted the homage125 as a matter of course.
In these idyllic126 conditions John Baltazar accounted himself serenely127 happy. His scholarly solitude was undisturbed by the windy ways of men or the windy ways of moorland nature. The former spent themselves before reaching him; at the latter he snapped his fingers. What to him was the seasons’ difference? So absorbed was he in his work, so circumscribed128 in his walled enclosure beyond which he seldom set foot, that he barely even noticed the hourly change on the sensitive face of the moor. And season followed season, and the piles of manuscript, exquisitely129 corrected for the printer, grew in height, and Quong Ho assimilated Higher Mathematics as though it were rice; and everything was for the best in the best of all possible little intellectual worlds.
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