trace of any human being, save that in the only room which remained
undestroyed, on the matting of the hard /Khang/--that is the divan
which stretches like a platform across three-quarters of every Chinese
room--lay the dead body of a Chinese coolie.  The dog, the cat, and the
hens had all gone. 

We only remained a moment or two in the place, and as we left it the
officer pulled my sleeve and pointed to a heap of rubbish near the
gate.  There, amidst some broken furniture, a mass of refuse, burned
and splintered wood, lay the tattered remains of a golden kite. 

End of the Project Gutenberg Etext of Orpheus in Mayfair and Other
Stories and Sketches by Maurice Baring