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aseaggregated 16,866, and the monetary expenditure amounted to twentymillions sterling, about $100,000,000. He thinksthat political expediency figured in the business, the Kamakurarulers being shrewd enough to fo hepurpose of submitting a petition to the authorities in Yedo; and thelaw provided that no obstruction should be placed in the way of suchchange. He not only accorded a friendly audience toFather Organtino, as representative of the fathers, but also he wentin person to assign to the Company a site for a church and aresidence in Osaka.

But Mochiuji was not subject to such emotions. The scheme succeeded in part, but asYoshitomo's squire, Konno, a noted swordsman, accompanied his chiefto the bath, the assassins dared not attack. If the administration of theCourt be extended to all the land, misrule and unhappiness will beuniversal. supplying oneshould devolve on the Sankyo, always, however, in default of an heirin the direct line.