Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-10-06

he presented to his spiritual sponsor
when he took her washing home.
The recipient thought he was setting
up rs an Oriental dealer, and gave
him half dollar for one Of the pins.
When he laid the money on the table
and would have none of 1t, she took
1t that it was below his price. 50 re-
turned the pin, aid pocketed the
money herself. Finally 1t dawned on
her that he was making her present.
She promptly declined the gift, but
the next week 1t turned up again.
At last she became so tired Of seeing
the much-refused article bob up
serenely' every Saturday that she
took 1t to get rid Of 1t, and Fab
Chung grinned harder, worked later,
and ate less. The fever OF the New
World had seized him. He longed
to amass riches.
With all her primness, Miss Pear
son was Of somewhat adventurous
nature. The great town to her coun.
try mind, was full Of wonders; and
leading, as woman, even q young
and very pretty woman can, II she
choose, in New York, as Independent
q life as II she were her own brother,
she INDUCED her passion for explor.
ing frequently. Her studies usually
occupied the day, but on those even
ings when she was not engaged In
setting the boarding house by the
ears by catechising one or another
fortunate young masculine sinner,
she donned a trim little gray bonnet
and cloak and wandered out into the
bewitching, brilliant night world.
She was not sure just why, but she
found that she felt a little uncom.
Portable in walking by herself up
Broadway, Fifth avenue or Madison
square in the evening, but the good.
natured crowds in the less fashion.
able parts OF the town never annoyed
or frightened her.
What more blissful than to walk
down Sixth avenue. with its cheap
restaurants filled with noisy, merry
people?
After a stroll part way down the
avenue, 1t was very pleasant to cut
through into dark, deserted Thomp-
son street, and wander about a little
while before taking Bond street or
one Of the other turnings leading into
the upper part Of the Bowery.
Good little Miss Pearson might not
have ventured down that street alone
had she known what was going on Its
easements.
1t was long time before any one
at the boarding house dreamed that
she had gone anywhere except per-
haps to chapel or to do q bit Of shop
ping, and then 1t was Caldwell who
found 1t out. He-good fellow that
he was-simply followed ut . dis
lance and kept guard.
Now 1t CHANGED that q certain pair
Of narrow slanting black eyes had
been keener than CaldwelPs big
round brown ones. Their owner
periled his ''washee.up shops" repu
tation for promptness by lingering
about the boarding house every nigh,
for an hour after dinner to learn wha,
his divinity's movements were to be
II she went exploring, SO did Faf
Chung, and kept an eye on her. i
grew more complicated when Cald
we'll took to shadowing her too. Tha
gentleman never noticed the China
} man, but Fab Chung did not grin 81
hard when he looked ut Mr.. Cald
well, particularly after he had seel
Miss Pearson fasten rose In his but
ton hole.
There IRE some things that chang
, not neither In America nor In China
, and the heart Of the lover Is one
Fab Chung might take tho Fourth o
July, with fire.crackers and illumina
tions, to be o kind OF American
Feast OF the Lanterns'-a grea
, religious festival, In fact. There h
! mistook. Decidedly.
But Fab Chung was right when h
, guessed that the object OF his pas
|, sion regarded him no moro In tn
light of lover than she would som
!. old woman who chose to wear pig
, tail and unusual shoes.
, The change in dress shadowe
upon Miss Parsons mind the fac
Q that her laundryman was man, IN
n her manner toward him became some
what reserved. That was good for
beginning. He wrote her letter.
$ she took it for a laundry list, b
s the bye-in his native tongue. @
course-in which he declared h
passion. He knew she could nc
q read it, but 1t was an outlet for h
0 feelings.
y He got his lodger to address I'll
!. envelope. As 1t stood she could res
g the outside, and he the inside,
that made 1t even.
1t was rather q pity that Fa
10 Chung could not have learned lit
e more OF the customs OF his adoptt
country earlier. The knowled
might have saved hhh from makil
1t two great mistakes.
IN The first lay in the fact that
n had not curtained his laundry wi
e. dow.
n. Strolling down the Bowery OF
ly bright afternoon and enjoying to Il
,p full the rush and roar Of life In tn
d. Broadway of the lower class Got
r. antics" Miss Pearson was amusil
40 herself by counting the different n
tionalities represented in the sho
er and so on. At the last corner 81
k came upon Fab Chung's laundr
We She stopped ut the window to admi
es the scrupulous cleanliness and
er watch its owner at work.
he Now the ways of American lau
so drywomen are not as the ways
Chinese laundrymen,
nd The former sprinkles the rou