Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-30
A CHINESE ROMANCE.
How an Outlawed Grandee Rescued His
Acknowledged Love.
Chicago Herald.

Il am a noble. grandee-titled person, or
what you may be pleased to call 1t, in my
own land, but it would be nearly impos-
sible for me TO explain the rank, so we
will let that 30. 1t is sufficient to say
that my father, like Gladstone or Blaine,
was a party leader, and in the state SER
vice, | was early taught state intrigues
and secrets. Then had private English
and French tutors. and received a. thor
ough education. Now, in Corea, which is
the Switzerland of China in one sense,
the people are all born free men, and bold
and daring. It was there l first learned
TO love a beautiful girl, with every grace
and charm that could be desired, but
she was the daughter of a rebel.
You must know that we have
rebels, like you have had. sometimes
they are descended from father to son.
They hold forth in the mountains; then
on the arid plains east of China, securing
the country much worse than the
BedOuins OF the Arabic region. l had
been up in the COrea region on state
business, when l met and loved Tsung-li.
She was indeed souls light to me. l
could not persuade her to fly. l would,
in my mad passion, have left the king
dom, going to Hong Kong and endeavor-
ing to get passage on an English snip,
but she would not 90. She thought of
my honor and future, and l could not
move her to compassion. Then the hope
of my life seemed slipping from me, as
the little stars elude the huge moons adj
miring advance | turned from her, and
as she sank down on the rock beside
which we had met, looked not back.
though her sObs rent my heart-strings.
=" / went to my fathers palace and told
him that he must get me away from Chi
ma. / was sent to our embassy at Eng
land. remained there several months in
London, went through Scotland, crossed
the Channel to Paris, and sought, in the
contemplation of the gay sights in that
pleasure-lOying city, to drown thoughts of
TsuDg.li: but her beautiful face, with its
tea-rOse bushes and soft languishing eyes,
came up at each turn, and fled from the
embassy without leave of absence, thus
fOrfeiting my life to my country. / went
to the West Indies, thence to South Amer
lea. There | passed months in Chilli,
Peru. at Santiago and Lima. l went
around seeing the sights in the LiamO and
on the plaza, where were the tinkle of
guitar and castanet Of dark-eyed senO-
ritas.
Il had wandered all this time without
hearing from my people, but the consulate
here sent word to China that the now no.
toriOus Wing sam Pah, whose head was
worth $4,000 to his country, was in Chill.
My father in a secretive way wrote me.
] received his letter, and then | saw
mention of the capture in the Corean
Mountains of Captain Hoy May, the great
rebel chief, and his beautiful daughter.
Good heavens! my Tsung-li in the folds
of the enemy, ] knew enough of state
affairs to see that she was liable to be
selected by some mandarin. l could not
stand it. | started for san Francisco.
thence went via steamer to China. l
went to a famous man of our kind
at San Francisco, and he disguised
me and got me 4 passport into the
FIOwery Kingdom, as an agent of the Six
Companies. ] got to Hong Kong. found
out where the rebel and his daughter were
confined, and went to them when / got
there. Iput up a jOb-there, that's Amer
lean. | got Tsung-li out of her rocky
prison, and then we started on our peril
Gus task of escaping from the land. She
had to dress in mems clothes. Together,
hand in hand, we hOated out to an Ameri-
can tea ship on a piece of light bamboo
wood. Then we were brought to San
Francisco, and now we are here"
He ceased talking, and looking toward
a small door at the right. softly called.
"Tsung-li. my own lCFet" The door was
pushed aside, and Chinese woman stood
there. She was fair enough for any ro-
nance,