New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-10
A JEWEL OF A BOY.


r.op Williamson. acting sub-manager and in
,rector Of branches for Il o Ango-Chnese Banking
Iorporatlon was sitting one morning IN MS room
at the Lond9n 9 9S 3oswsrd Mall had 6rpusht
To him enter tho chief manager, MaeDavid, Win
a blank look on his face and telegram IN us
90 read it, And then the sub-mauager read
FUankow. May 20. Agency robbed. ProOaDIy ny
Chiuamen. Eighty thousand dollars notes
Shelly. COmpradOr murdered. Send inspector al
'"t BY Jovel it's a 60 said Jack with long
whistle just IN the qGe v6 Ui 'T have ,e to 90 out
Then can You startY To-days Monday. Cathay
leaves Gravesend on Friday Can you 90 IL I
Now Jack Williamson the last ten Hears Oh TnU ,
life ind been passed IN travelling all over ASIA ln-
snectInv the various branches and agencies OF Inc
bank needed but little preparation, SO accustomed
was be to he called upon 10 start Tor distant pony
nj all sorts of odd times, so he merely SAID, All
right, I'll co. and resumed his letters ,,D
: So upon Friday next JACK walked on DoaId the !.
& O. steamer Cathay at Grayesend, with big
Cigar i'm his mouth. c0olly and as unconceIheOly
ms NJ lac were going TO Margate or Hastings instead
Of nine hundred miles into the healt vi Sn h odo
mn excellent run, touching as usual at Port Said,
Euea. Alden Point do Gale and singapore. Az the
isst-named place he went ashore to tpe oranch; Oh
which the manager was ALI old cGum OF his,
lHullo Jack Come about the Hank0w business
suppose It's rum Job isn't 1T hat t3c t ,race
either of the murderers or the stun, which was haI
notes and bali Sycee. Haven't even suspicion, 80
expect you've got your WORK Gu, ou1 ~ ~ ~.
think our people could have been much better
Anyhow, | wish you good luck; you We SHOWN
Yourself more than once as goCu rs deiectiiVe;,
ssnnnose you'ye brought one with you Not
wbals the good of London detective IL Chlna
Besides like to go to WORK aooqt oheSe sd
NV own way, without beng bothered Dy any Oouy
hlse's ideas and notions. Too many COOKS spon
he broth, ana in a case like this one heads better
tIan two. But look here. want boy none Oi
ronr rascals tDat rob you and cheek you, and get
ont OF the way when they re wanted put Roog.
honest. sober, industrious fellow. VINO doesn't
yyhmper at being taken u hundred miles elfom
home and who doesn't mind being sworn at now
and them Jack, Us All old China hand, knew that
Singapore boys were the best as r good one
! The manager called in the compradOr-that 10,
,he head of the native department of the 0ank
man necessarily of some standing ana OF gOOu cd
ucatOn. Now, Singapore compIadors pride them,
Selves on being very different from thef ofetAlen
IA, China. inasmuch AZ they are more LulopeahIneu,
md having attended Eurasian scnoOS, nave
learnt 10 speak not the childish sounding pidgin
of Hong HONS and Shanghai, but the English OF
johnson and Macaulay-very much moro johnson
Ian and Macaulayan, in fact than that spoken by
s'.Comprador,' said the manager Mr.. William
H. H. Won tnow anyone who you think would suit
him. 4 will retire, sir replied the grave iunc,
tonary. and maturely consider your question.
In an hour OF so he returned; dare 70 lihagIne,
Dir that have succeeded IN discovering the type
III Individual you require. His appenaton Is An
Moon he enjoys very e09S IL Wiinp 10 act in
HE capacty Of boy for nominal consideration;
lie does not speak, perhaps SO well as you coula
wish hut then he has not had the advantage OF
Einrnpore education ; but that is his MISFORTUNE
Cir, and scarcely his sfault. Snow HIN ln com
prador, said Jack and NI; az Noon was t th;rU
6r thereabouts. with a serene Buddha, Ike express
Sion of face, which was maTTed only 10y tne marx
81 fearful wound which assembled MS right cheeh
and cave him rather a sinister appearance when lie
laughed He was spotlessly clean, ana looked q! a.
together u very promising retainer gu are I VII
Yes sir replied All Moon III respectlui TONE
sNhat wages do You want T. Twelve 99IIals a
month can 90 SIR SAID me Doyi i n,t 9oT
that yillauous scar, he might pass Tor mandarin;
and aloud he added. Very well that piecy Eng
ish steamer sail a; midnieht. Gan DC fea'S oiIi
secure sir replied All Moon, ana, WIN an oDeIs-
ance, retired. 80
When Jauk Williamson returned board that
night he found bis pyJamahs neatly iaia OUT IN LIS
his slippers-everything, III TACT that ne sh0ulu
want That's a good beginning, anyhcwi he
thought: il he only goes on In tins styie he II 90
lint the worst of these begsars is that as rule.
they don't 20 on. All Moons residence was SOME
where forward but, by some lnethoa Vi MS OWL
he learnt always to be in the way when wanted.
lie vas terribly sea-slck on the voyage 70 hong
Kong; but he was none the less seryiceaele, ana
performed his duties nantuIly, WIN a Iace as
nearly white as yellow face could De ana me
fears OF suppressed agony streaming down MS
cheeks Jack told him TO 90 and lie down. Dut ne
would not At Hong hGng he N %e9' m nsnOes vs.
cTcite the envy Of the local manager who offered
there and then TO take him OIL Jacks hands at III
creased wages and give his own boy III exchange /;
hut Jack when he had found jewel. knew now
to take of it, and seriously thought oil bring
ing him back to England with him to act IN the
place of a certain Mary Jane whose chief pred-
iections were for breaking every thing that came
into her hands. and for forgetting all that was SAID
10 her; in fact, 10 began TO conceive quite an
sYlscfion for All Moon and declared that his only
forthcoming was his dslusiOn with regard TO "a
certain white man who haunted him.
T4.,, Kan Je
to Shanghai, and from Shanghai ny on. OF the lux
urions American river steamers up the mighty
Iang-tse to HanKOw
The murder and the robbery were still the talk
OF the little place. and the widest specuiations
were rife AZ TO whittier the authors WIN tneli
booty had escaped-speculatiOns none Inc less
wild on account of the great facilities aliorded 1oi
conoeaInent in such terra incognlta. FROM
what Jack gathered from the agent half Inc
amount stolen had been III the banks own notes,
and half in Sycee silver Now s0veTeigns, OF even
dollars arc comparatively handy coins 10 Gait
away IN Qu.ntties--the latter, OF course. less so
than the former; but the fact that sOIe forty
thousand dollars val ne q the dnwleldy SILVER
'hools. called Sycee had been distracted and sue
cessfully hidden away seemeu 70 prove tnat s.N-
eral moniHust haye been engaged IN the enterprise
The Waterman who had been on duty during lhe
might in question, and who had been lying IN that
most unenviable of domciles, n Chinese jail. ever
since. knew nothing lie was on duty from s
O'Clock In the evening until o'clock the next m0in-
Ing. il being bis business 70 perambnlate ihe en-
rether two pieces OF fiat wood as token of his
watohiulness. lie would not swear that he had
not taken snooze once. but his check clock,
which he was obliged to move at every round IN
hour. When asked rs 10 what he had been doing
previous TO going duty be said that he had slept
as usual during the day. alter "hiSh Ne msa aaseg
wine, not at his own house. but at pubic res
tanrsnt. Did he feel sleepy at all during tho
plight Mot that he remembered: Inc coinRFad nd