been settled, you come along and still maintain your foolish and stubborn point. No! This is under my jurisdiction!"
Chü-jen Lao-yeh, pressed into a tight position, still maintained his point firmly and declared that if recovery of the booty were not made, he would resign at once from his duty of administrating the civil government.
"Have your own way, then," the captain said.
Consequently, on that night Chü-jen Lao-yeh slept not a wink, but it fortunately happened that on the day following he had not resigned.
The fourth occasion of Ah Q's being taken from behind the barred door, was the morning following the night on which Chü-jen Lao-yeh had been unable to sleep. When Ah Q reached the great hall, above him still sat the old man with the clean-shaven head; and Ah Q, as was his habit, knelt down.
Very gently the old man asked, "What more have you to say?"
After thinking for a moment and finding nothing to say, Ah Q straightway replied, "Nothing."
Many men, some wearing long coats and others wearing short ones, put on him a vest of white foreign cloth, on which black characters were written. At this Ah Q felt very much depressed, because it greatly resembled the wearing of
