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 WANG PREPARES THE DEATH STROKE. One day chance aroused a new sensation in him. He passed the door of the philosopher's room. Wang was trying the point of a dagger, and wetting it with some liquid in a blue glass bottle. As Kin-Fo glanced into the room the philosopher brandished the dagger around, in order to try it. Kin-Fo's face changed at the sight of this, and the blood mounted to his eyes; he thought to himself, this is the day in which he is to perform the deed."—Page 173. Vol. 11.