At the age of forty Tao-hsin moved to Shuang-feng Mountain in the district of Huang-mei, present-day Hupeh province. There he attracted a large following; it is said that he had five hundred students studying under him.

blackenings of my reputation

I describe it as a stunt that went horribly right because it was designed to fail, in the sense that Chas was going to be the comic relief, to be deployed when we got stopped.

Cooper interthreaded his fingers and flexed his hands palm to palm.