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Hcemeo to nave blossomed out Into a ther’s witn a handsome settlement, as unmeis. gave tnern a nearty welcome
second youth. Then as the truth crept Is the custom of the far east. This he nnd set aside for them the best cabin In
did with great alacrity. Though cold his stanch little boat.
out It went in full measure to Grey.
Tbe northeast monsoon had Just set
A t the end of the five years several and calculating. Grey was not at all
In.
nnd the voyage up to the Shangtung
mean.
H
e
settled
on
Ni
Hu
£50(X
which
events occurred.
Percy received a
promontory wns rough nnd depressing.
made
her
Independent
for
life
and
leave of absence for a year, with per
Mrs. Groy kept to her bed. while Grey
mission to visit England.
With the which was twice the amount usually
passed
his time with the officers and
leave came the notice that on account given In such cases. He also arranged
engineers.
The baby and nurse had the
of his meritorious services he had been for the <>dueatlon of the two boys. Nl
saloon to themselves, where the former
By WILLIAM E. S.
Hu
received
the
news
with
singular
p-omoted to consul. At the same time
FALES
calmness. Groy had expectetl anil wns made merry from dawn until dark. As
came the visit of Miss Trevelyan.
they passed the promontory and en-
This young lady was tall, handsome preparod for n frenzied outbreak, but
terod the Yellow sea the weather be
and a presumptive heiress. She was none came. Despite the seven years
Copyright, lfltti, by W. K. 8. Fule»
gan
to change, and the day on whie’i
connected with a dozen great families of companionship the man bad been
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they
reached Che Foo saw a clear,
and was a cousin of the British ambas too much engrossed In himself to be- warm sky and a smooth sea.
comp
acquainted
with
her
real
nature.
N V IO U S people sneered when sador at Peking. She bad made a visit
Mrs. Grey was carried out upon the
The days passed rapidly, and soon
Percy St rath ford Grey passed upon the latter and was uow leisurely
deck
anil laid, carefully wrapped, in a
the civil service examinations \ Journeying along the China coast en Groy was steaming southward on a red
long
chnlr.
Near her in another chair
with high honors and said that route to I mita and thence to London, funnel bont to overtake Miss Trevel
wns
the
nurse
with the child. The ap
It was due to Ills being u cousin of the le tte rs from the embassy bad precod- yan. NI Hu went to her parents’ home,
proaching end of the journey was a f
where
her
wealth
made
her
now
a
con
Duke o f Eastmlnster. There was an «*d her on h«*r route, so that at every
fecting nil of the party. The sick w o
lota of truth In the sneer, as there Is In port she had a triumphal welcome. spicuous figure. HI fortune seemed to
man had a hectic flush on her checks
most sneers. The distinguished rela Slit* had been tried by the dirt and have marked her for Its own. She wns
which
made her look quite beautiful.
tive had aided Percy by tin* confidential noise of Peking and Tientsin and robbed. A branch of the How Qua
The
nurse
wns attired In rich blue silk,
hint tlint the Chinese examination was found Che Foo a veritable paradise, as bank, where most of her money was
and
In
her
hair were the jeweled pins
the easiest o f all and that the chief ex
In fact It Is. The best rooms In tlie con lodged, failed Irretrievably, and the In vogue among the women of Shang
banker
hanged
himself
in
orthodox
amlner was deaf and egotistic. The sulate were set aside for lier. and upon
She wrote several tung. The baby was resplendent In
student took advantage of tin- hint and, | Groy devolved the work o f entertain Mongolian style.
tine linen. Ere long they snw the blue
being ambitious and persevering, had ing her. How well In* pcrform«*<l the du times to Grey, but the letters never
hills
and silver beach of their destina
no trouble with the department of red ty was the talk of Che Foo for u year. roached him. Then she drifted away
tion.
Grey strolled to the party and
tape. Shortly after the announcement During her stay her boudoir, the saloon from Tientsin and was given up for
saiil:
dead.
came his appointment as student in and «lining room were floral bowers.
“ There is my old home and hereafter,
Grey overtook his fiancee at Singa
terpreter to the Tientsin consulate.
Damn's, boat parties, regattas, dragon
Here he arrived in due season and be boat races, tennis, golf, sedan chair Ijorc and. with her and her party, math' I hope, ours." As he spoke the nurse
looked up at him a moment and then,
gan his otflclal work. This for the tlrst excursions, amateur dramatics ami mu tin* rest of the Journey to London.
Tw o months afterward they were lowering her gaze. 8(*emod unconscious
tw o years consisted In mastering the sicales followed one another swiftly.
of Ids presence. But in that look there
mandarin or official language. Percy
The heiress b«*enme attached to the married, and the society Journals gave
engaged an old Chinese gentleman In young consul, and he in turn snw In a column to the affair. The honeymoon was an expression which would have
reduced circumstances and made the
was spent on the continent and Christ ehilled him to the heart could he have
slow progress which marks Instruction
mas and New Year’s on the Nile. Then seen It.
The sailors came forward and took
under such auspices.
they traveled leisurely to the far east.
He accordingly had recourse to the
}\t Hongkong Grey received notice that down the railing where the companion
method employed by student Inter
he had been assigned to Chlnklnng. on ladder was to hang nnd also that near
the Yangtse river, and thither the cou the hatch from which the cargo Is
pri ters from time Immemorial In the
ple repair«*«!. A year nfter their arrival holst«*d. As they walked away to nn-
far east and Itought a “ living diction
ary” —that is, he purchased from her
Mrs. Grey became the mother of what othi'r part o f the ship the nurse arose
grateful parents a Chinese wife. Nl
(he port «loctor was plens«*d to call “ the from the chair and with the bnby In
llu , the lady In question, was a girl of
best British babe ever born on the her arms strolled to a position near the
eighteen, well built and strong, ns are
great river.” Chlnklnng Is full of few »' open rail. Then she turned nnd in a
most of the women of Khnngtuug. Plain
and malaria. These ha«l no Influence voice which was strange to Mrs. Grey,
from a Chinese point of view, she was
on the babe, which thrived from the but familiar to Grey, said shnrply:
attractive and even handsome to a Eu-
first, but they played havoc with the “ Hal Kwan. do you remember Nl Hu.
ropean eye. Her family belonged to the
mother anil the English nursemaid. your Chinese w ife nnd your two sons,
|HN>r middle class, so that ohe had had
The latter fell so sick that she hail to as handsome as this? You sent them
the advantage of highly educate«! sur
lx* sent home. She was r«*plnce«l by a away to marry this woman and become
roundings, If not of a high e«lucation
poor native woman, Ah Tal. who wan rich by having this child. Your two
herself. She was bright, lively and nf
employed by a missionary not far from sons were killed by the gods with
smallpox: NI IIu was robbed nnd
feetlonate.
the consulate.
Percy hired a Chinese house and lived
The new nurse was not very nttrai j thrown upon the street to die. She
the life o f a native scholar. Ills prog
five. Her face was prematurely old wrote you for money, for help, but you
ress was rapid. In throe months he had
never answered.
She hnd smallpox,
and marred by a recent attack of small
but
did
not
die.
Tbe
gods wanted her
a gissl colloquial knowledge o f the
pox. Her eyebrows and lashes and
mandarin. At the end of two years he
much of her front hair were gon«\ and to live. I am NI Hu. My time has
spoke, read and wrote It as fluently as
the malady had affect«*«! her voice, come, nnd I go willingly to meet our
Professor Giles, the eminent authority. ,
which was harsh and deep. But be boys.”
In tin* examination which then occur-
Her last word wns ringing in their
neath her unprepossessing exterior the
re«l he received high praise from the
woman dlsplayeii Intelligence, fidelity ears as Ah Tal, or Nl Hu. turned and
Judges, upon whose report he was pro
nnd skill. The baby took to lier. and a* with the baby in her arms sprang
»noted from student Interpreter to vice
tbe mother grow weak the nurse and through the open rail into the sc'n. The
consul ami was assigned to the city
child bpcnrne inseparable. Grey prM consul was about to spring forward
and district of Che Koo.
little att«*ntion to either. What thought when Mrs. Groy with a scream which
In the latter city he took a pretty
he tlld not give to his office was be died Into n moaning gasp fell over on
house, Install«'«! Ills Chinese w ife and
stow«*d ou his wife, who was slowly the d«'ck. When he plck«‘d her up he
lin'd the happy-go-lucky life of the far
becoming a helpless Invalid. He np- .-•aw that her heart had «*eas«*d to beat.
east. Five yours passed uneventfully.
p«*nle«l to the ambassador nnd after
Tw ice Nl IIu presented him with a
much roil tape obtaln«*d a transfer from
H I * E ro P o p t h e “ F u n n y , "
pretty babe which Inherited his re«l
Chfnkiang to his old post. Che Foo.
Miss
Kulcher—O f course Mr. Fresch-
blond hair ami gray eyes ami the moth
Mrs. Grey h«*nnl the news with a lan mann. you are quite fam iliar wi«n
er’s Mongolian cheek bones. As she N l ’ KHIC AN1) CH1I.D 1IKCAMR IN H g rA K A n i.il. guid smile. So low was her vitality
Greek ?
was a devoted mother and they admira
her a superb stopping stone In Ids tlint the prospect of exchanging dreary
Mr. Frosohmann—Oil. yes. Indeed/
ble Infants, their presence «11«! not dis
anil miasmatic Chlnklnng for sunny 1 know Greek the minute I see It. roe
diplomatic
onroer.
When
the
day
of
turb him In the least. On the «contrary,
li«*r «li'parture arrlv«*d the two were and picturesque Che Fix) hardly stir letters are so funny looking, you know.
lie grew quite fond of them. They
engaged, and Grey lia«l prouils«*d to roil her heart. Grey noticed h«*r iqm —Philadelphia Press.
were his chiIdn'ii by Chinese law. Just
thy, but said nothing. Sh«* had played
as Nl Hu was Ills wife, but by Kngllsh follow and overtake her by the time her part in Ills life’s drama and now
she roach«*«l Singapore.
law neither they nor she bore any ro
A b o r t i o n tn C o n i .
Tin* news spread abroad. nn«l Grey wns o f but secondary Importance.
tation to him except a meretricious one
Wealth nnd power were to «*ome to him
A
cure
for
almrtlon In cows has long
Percy did his best to advance himself was overwhelmed with congratulation-«. through the stalwart baby crowing in been desired. ^Ir. N. A. Lind, a breed
nt Che Foo. Ills superior, the consul. When he roturm*«! lo the consulate tbe garden with the nurse. Within a er o f Shorthorn cattle at Holfe. la.,
hn<! grown gray In the servlet* and did after s«*elng the stenmer depart which year or two. ncconllng to reports from states that he finds carbolic ncitl a
Just as little work as |iossible. He was boro away Miss Trevelyan he sank In a home, the present baronet would l>«* no
cure. He states that, knowing carbolic
therefore delighted to have the vice chair and was lost In a «lay dream. He more, nnd then a new career would be acid to l>e a deadly poison, lie feared to
consul |>erforni the duth*s of the otllee. snw himself married ami a happy fa gin for both tbe baby nnd his father.
use It. but tried It on one cow. giving
Hy «legrocs the younger man exercised ther: be saw the ag«nl cousin die in
Preparations for the voyage to the h«*r an eighth o f an ounce In bran
more ami more «if the consular func whom the Trevelyan estates and the north were soon made. They sailed
innsh every other day. Finding that it
tions until he was practically consul In baronetcy of I*«»rset roste«l ami the ilown the mighty river to Shanghai nnd
dl«l not kill her and that she Improved,
fortune
nml
title
pnss
to
Ills
Infant
s«.n;
all but name. The roport* and dis
waited In that metropolis for a coast he gave It to th«* entire herd, gradually
patches wen* such imxh'ls as to attract he saw himself secretary o f legation stenmer to Che Foo. One arrived, anil
Increasing the dose to half an ounce.
the attention and win the prntsc of the nn«l then ambasaa«lor at Versailles or by some <*oincid«>nce It provixl to In* the
The
disease disappeared, the tlrst cow
St. Petersburg.
legation at Peking and then of the for
same which had carried both Miss Tre has produced a strong, healthy calf,
The first thing was to elenr off all Ills velyan nml thereafter Grey from Che
elgn office in ¡»owning street. At first
nnil not a ease o f abortion has since
the crodlt went to the rousul. who business and send Nl IIu to lier fa Foo to Shanghai. The master. Captain
appeared.
A CHE FOO
TRAGEDY
E