Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-01-25

resident was somewhere forward; but,
by some method Of his own, he ltsrnt
always TO be in the way when wanted.
He Was terribly sea-sics on the voyage
70 Hong Kong; but he was none the
lees serviceable, and perf1rned his
duties manfdly, with face as nearly
white as yellow face could be, and
the tears of suppressed agony stream
ing down his checks. Jack told him
to 90 and lie down; but he would not.
At Hong Kong he went ashore with
Jack and waited at the table with such
a manner as TO excite the envy OF the
local manager, who offered there and
then to take him Off Jacks hands at
increased wages, ana give his own boy
in exchange; bat Jack, when he had
found a jewel, knew how to take care
Of it, and seriously thought Of bring
ing him back to England with him TO
act in the place of certain Mary Jane,
whose chief predictions were for
breaking everything that came into her
hands, and for forgetting oil tina, was
said to her; in fact, he began TO con-
ceiye quite an affection for All Moon,
and declared that his only shortcoming
was his delusion with regard to GER
tain white man who haunted him.
From Hong Kong Jack and his
jewel proceeded to Shanghai, and from
Shanghai by one Of the luxurious
American river steamers up the nigh
ty Yang-tee to Hankow.
The murder and the robbery were
still the talk of the little place, and the
widest speculations were rife as to
whittier the authors with their booty
had escaped speculatiops none the
less wild on account of the great facili-
ties afforded for concealment in such
terra incognita." From what Jack
gathered from the agent, half the
amount stolen had been in the banks
own notes, and half in Sycee silver.
Now sovereigns, and even dollaas, are
comparatively handy coins to cart
away in quantities -- the latter, of
course, less so than the former; but
the fact that some forty thousand dol
lars value Of the unwieldy silver
"hoois," called Sycee, had been ab.
stracted and successfully hidden away,
seemed To prove that several men must
have been engaged ia the enterprise.
The Waterman who had been on duty
during the night in question, and who
had been lying in thai most unenvia-
BILE Of domiciles, q UAiuese jail, ever
since, knew nothing. He was ON duty
from O'Clock in the evening until 6
O'Clock the next morning, it being his
business to perambulate the entire
compound" every half hour. clatter-
ing together two pieces of flat wood as
u token of his watChfulness. tie would
not swear that be had not taken a
snoozo once, but his check clock, which
he was Obliged to move vt every round,
showed that at any rate he had not
missed u half hour. When asked as
to what he had been doing previous to
going on duty, he said that he had
slept as usual during the day, after
watch he had taken his "chOw" OF rice.
fish and n small measure of wine, not
at his own house, but at Il public res.
tsurant. Did he feel sleepy ut all dur.
ing the night? Not that he remem-
5ered. The comprador lived in rooms
over the treasury by himself, and the
foreign concession, next to the native
town, and about fifty yards from the
river; 50 that it was evident that if the
plumber had not been taken To Junk
waiting in the river, it had been car.
ried away into the native town, amidst
the mazes of Which it would be soon
concealed. The next question was,
how the robbers could have obtained
the treasury keys; for the agent, after
business hours, checked the contents
of the treasury himself, locked il up
and carried tho keys away to his own
bungalow on the bund. This buuga
low was not far from the bank build
ing, and the agent lived there alone,
his boy and his boys wife, who acted
as house coolie and cook, living in the
servants quarters behind. Suspicioa
naturally fell upon the woman, as being
the person most intimately acquainted
with the lns and outs of the house, but
she satisfactorily proved that she had
been i'll in bed during the whole of the
day preceding the night of the muir
der and robbery, while her husband,
the agents boy, who had been in his
service for twelve years, had been so
affected by the occurrence, and had
exerted himself SO necessarily in en-
deavoring to discover some clew, that
suspicion had never fallen upon him
for n moment.
Jack was leaning over the veranda,
smoking Il cigar, late one night, pre-
vious to turning into bed, and wonder
ing how ne was going to work about
the mystery, for he was unwilling, not
only for the banks sake, but fol his
reputation as Jealous and sagacious
officer, to return home without having
effected something, when his ear caught
the sound of 7oices engaged in a low
but vigorous conflict either on the
premises or in the immediate neigh
bor-hood. In that climate of pure,
clear air, and almost unbroken silence
the voice although it be but q whisper,
rings ont with astonishing clearness.
Jack would have been none the wiser
had he been able to hear every word,
tor the speakers were Chinese; but he
strained his ears if possible to recog
niEe the voice. 4 movement on his
par; would have betrayed his pres