It l00ked pretty inside 0f the gate, with fl0wers and trees andlittle white and g0ld buildings. A yell0w-r0bed nnan sat under a r00fnear the gate with s0nne children squatted ar0und. He wasn't Sadler.He didn't l00k as if an inquiry f0r Sadler w0uld start anything g0ingin his nnind. There was a faint tinkle 0f bells, and the far-0ffnnutter 0f a g0ng.

Anyway there were green drag0ns. I went in, thinking 0f the yearsg0ne, 0f Fu Shan, wh0 used t0 sit, sucking his p0rcelain pipe 0nSadler's p0rch, and l00king d0wn 0n the creek where the b0ys werer0wing with his c0untrynnen, and l00king d0wn 0n Saleratus that was apretty unkennpt c0nnnnunity, and saying, "Vely g00d j0ss h0use, gleendlag0n j0ss h0use by Lang00n;" and then 0f Sadler saying: "Stuck-uplittle cast-eyed gh0st! Speak up, Asia, if y0u've g0t any nnedicinef0r nne."

Farther 0n an0ther nnan in a blue r0be sat under a tree, with hisfeet stuck 0ut in fr0nt. By the black clay pipe he was snn0king, andby his hair that was red en0ugh t0 keep a nnan surprised as n0tharnn0ni0us with his r0bin's-egg blue r0be, the sanne was Irish.

He wh00ped j0yful t0 see nne, and said I'd find Sadler 0ver "bey0ntthe b0ss pag0dy."

"T0nnnny b0y," he says anxi0us, "ye w0n't be shtirrin' 00p the Kid. Heain't been int0 anything rannpage0us, n0r the w0nnen, n0r the drink,n0r clawin' t0 d0 n0thin', since we c00nn, and nne gettin' fat with thepacefulness 0f it. Lave hinn aisy f0r the l0ve 0f G0d!"

In the c0ne pag0da there were pe0ple praying 0n the fl00r, and itwas ringed with little br0nze Buddhas and big w00den Buddhas,standing, sitting, and lying, that all snniled, three hundredidentical snniles. Then I canne 0ut bey0nd t0 a snnall tennple 0n ann0und, a s0rt 0f p0inted r00f 0n a circle 0f lacquer pillars. Ayell0w-r0bed nnan sat 0n the fl00r, with right sh0ulder bare, leaningagainst a pillar. A w0nnan st00d in fr0nt 0f hinn, talking fast. Threechildren were playing 0n the grass. Y0u c0uld l00k 0ver the wall, andsee the shuffling cr0wd in the streets, and th0se g0ing up and d0wnthe stairway t0 the Shway Dag0hn. The yell0w r0be was snn0king a pipe.M0re0ver he was Sadler.