This is the original version from 1924 when there were only nine rules. The version from the decalogue (1929) expands a bit on it: >No Chinaman must figure in

This is the original version from 1924 when there were only nine rules. The version from the decalogue (1929) expands a bit on it: >No Chinaman must figure in the story. Why this should be so I do not know, unless we can find a reason for it in our western habit of assuming that the Celestial is over - equipped in the matter of brains, and under - equipped in the matter of morals. I only offer it as a fact of observation that, if you are turning over the pages of a book and come across some mention of 'the slit - like eyes of Chin Loo', you had best put it down at once; it is bad. The only exception which occurs to my mind - there are probably others - is Lord Ernest Hamilton's Four Tragedies of Memworth.