Chapter 12A SHORT TALE OF SAMUT KOTE When the get-together at Phaulkon’s house ended, Burnaby and White retired to their own quarters. Phaulkon saw them to the door. The guard outside, who had been dozing, jumped to his feet and
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Chapter 11BCounter-Defense While they were still in custody in Ligor, word reached Abu Umar in Ayutthaya about the shipwreck and the capture of Phaulkon and his crew. Abu was certain they would be beheaded and when he learned to the
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Chapter 11AARMS FOR THE REBELS Among the documents given to Phaulkon by Abu Umar was a navigation chart-Golfe de Siam, by French engineer M. La Mare. Someone, perhaps George White, had drawn the course which they were to follow. Phaulkon
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Chapter 10BResistance Fanique exploded in a rage of fury. In two short leaps he closed the distance between him and Phaulkon, and with his sword raised above his head, he brought it down in a sweeping cut. At the same
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Chapter 10THE NECKLACE Through the patience and understanding of his mandarin teacher, Phaulkon was able to learn the extremely refined and hierarchic court language of Siamese royalty. It was fair to say that he enjoyed his time spent with his
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Chapter 9THE MAKING OF A MANDARIN Thamnon was a mandarin. He came to Ayutthaya from China as an envoy from the Emperor of the Middle Kingdom. Like all mandarins, he was a scholar, one of the educated elite, a man
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Chapter 8BGetting Closer At the Fanique residence, Marie was with her father in the courtyard with her maid when they heard someone at the back entrance. She knew who it might be for she had heard a messenger earlier in
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Chapter 8AA LADY IN WAITING When George White returned home that night, Myra was still awake, waiting for him in the foyer. Upon seeing her, all perfumed and pretty, he picked her up in his arms and swung her around
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Chapter 7BJapanese Client “His name is Fanique, a most unusual fellow”, White said later. “I see that,” Phaulkon answered. “It’s not what you can see, but what you can’t see, that is important. He is mad and, with madness in
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Chapter 7AOFFICE OF RICHARD BURNABY, ESQ. Richard Burnaby, officer of the English East India Company, and George White, free trader and interloper, were at the dockside outside the south gate to Ayutthaya when White’s trading schooner Alicia arrived from Songkau.
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