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Indiscreet Letters from Peking

by B. L. Putnam Weale

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  1. 1Foreword
  2. 2Part I — The Warning
  3. 3II — Mutterings
  4. 4III — Overcast Skies
  5. 5IV — Our Guards Arrive
  6. 6V — The Plot Thickens
  7. 7VI — The Licking Flames Approach
  8. 8VII — The City of Peking and All its Glories
  9. 9VIII — Some Incidents and the One Man
  10. 10IX — The Coming of the Boxers
  11. 11X — Barricades and Reliefs
  12. 12XI — Some Men and Things
  13. 13XII — Hell Hounds
  14. 14XIII — A Few Crumbs
  15. 15XIV — The Ultimatum
  16. 16XV — The Debacle Begins
  17. 17Part II — The Siege
  18. 18II — The Retreat and the Return
  19. 19III — Fires and Food
  20. 20IV — The Bonds Tighten
  21. 21V — The Mysterious Board of Truce
  22. 22VI — Shells and Sorties
  23. 23VII — The Hospital and the Graveyard
  24. 24VIII — The Failure
  25. 25IX — An Interlude
  26. 26X — The Guns
  27. 27XI — Sniping
  28. 28XII — The Gallant French
  29. 29XIII — The British Legation Base
  30. 30XIV — The Ever-growing Casualty List
  31. 31XV — The Armistice
  32. 32XVI — The Resumption of a Semi-diplomatic Life
  33. 33XVII — Diplomacy Continues
  34. 34XVIII — The Unrest Grows and Diplomacy Continues
  35. 35XIX — The First Real News
  36. 36XX — The Third Phase Continues
  37. 37XXI — More Diplomacy
  38. 38XXII — The World Beyond Our Bricks
  39. 39XXIII — Trifles
  40. 40XXIV — Diplomatic Confidences
  41. 41XXV — The Plot Again Thickens
  42. 42XXVI — More Messengers
  43. 43XXVII — The Attacks Resumed
  44. 44XXVIII — The Thirteenth
  45. 45XXIX — The Night of the Thirteenth
  46. 46XXX — How I Saw the Relief
  47. 47Part III-The Sack
  48. 48II — The Sack
  49. 49III — The Sack Continues
  50. 50IV — Chaos
  51. 51V — Settling Down
  52. 52VI — The Forbidden Fruit
  53. 53VII — The Few Remains
  54. 54VIII — The Palsy Remains
  55. 55IX — Drifting
  56. 56X — Picking Up Threads
  57. 57XI — The Impossible
  58. 58XII — Suspense
  59. 59XIII — Still Drifting
  60. 60XIV — Punitive Expeditions
  61. 61XV — The Climax
  62. 62XVI — The End

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