The Florence daily tribune., 1898-04-27

the station OF SO base and wicked de-
scrlption chat all those who hoard il re-
fused at first to entertain tho notion.
lie was court mnrtigied and expelled
he service. Since then the charge has
| been proved to have been entirely with
cut foundah q i,sst By the time that
was knowA,. Ny poor father had died in
exile He appealed. but what was the
use Of thatg
TO @ proGd, headstrong man, con-
snicua ol his innocence, such disgrace
was unhearable, and he at length fed
from England, resolved to shake its dust
loroyer of his feet. Hewent to India, but
thc result of the trial was known thore,
and every post was barred to him He
passed on 90 Singapore, and finally to
| liongkong, bat always with the same
! result. by this time everything that
was obstinate and worst in him was
reused, and when the admiral, the same
who had brought tho charge against
him, was transferred to the China sta
ton my father sought him out iii Shang-
hal, decoyed him outside the city, re-
4 qucsted him 60 publicly admit that tho
charges he had brought against him
were false. and on his refusing mo-
duced pistols invited him to duel and
shot him dead, Then. while the polico
were hunting for him, he fitted out
boat with a large sum Of money that
had some tiine before been left hiu,
collected dozen other mon MS desperate
as himself, tosted them thoroughly be-
fore no trusted them, and having bound
/ fbpftf Ia sfr s,.l.
where they could lead their own lives
uuhindored by the outside world, This
was the place they came 10, and those
old houses near tho harhor were their
first dwellings. Once in every six
months my father went off to Hongkong
for sup lios, and it was during ono Il
these -ursions that be met the man
whose destiny it was to recognize him,
and SO hasten the trouble that lay ba-
fore him. High words passed between
them, and the result was betrayal,
and fight with the police, ia which
two men were left dead upon the beaoh.
That was the beginning IF the end. II u
same night buatlnad of marines PIT
off to arrest my father, who was in tLn
act Of getting his schooner under weigh.
Whom they came within mailing dis.
tanoei they were challenged aud asked
their business Tho officer in charge re-
piled that be held warrant for my ia
Tiers arrest. But the latter had no de-
sire to fall into tho Authorities hands
again, SO he babe them stand OF. The
officer, however ordered his men to
board. Again they were warned not to
lhpproaoh, but they paid no heed Tho
1saa A
cred from the schooner, and four men
ont Of the six constituting the boats
crew, including the officer IN charge.
fell dead
without more ado my father got
under weigh and raced for his life out
of the harbor, pursued by three shots
from the cruiser in the bay. from tliat.
day forward he was prescribed man.
Rewards were offered for his capture
in all the principal ports Of the cas-. NOT
only by the English government but
by the rich residents Of Singapore,
Eongkong and the treaty ports. Consid-
ering that twas not their affair. this
action ON the part of his 9otmer friends
so enraged my father that ne sworo that
if ever one of the sigpatories fell into
his hands hewould make him pay dear
~ for his action. 1t may interest you to
know that MIR. Vesey, the man whom
you perhaps remember l abducted, was
the chairman Of the meeting chat offer
ed the first reward for my father, and
years afterward for me.
WELL months went by, and once
more the stores ON the island began to
run short. 1t became imperatively neces-
sary that fresh supply should be OBJ
tanned. To do this my father rcpainted
and rerigged his boat, disguised himself
and his men and sailed off for Shanghai
Reaching that port, be sent his mate
ashore to make the purchases. But sus-
4 picion seems to have been aroused the
man was arrested, and had not my ia
! ther been warned i'll time and put to
sea he would have shared the same fate
But be was resolved not to be beaten,
and at the risk of his life he went back
and ashore. By means of subterfuge
which it would take me too long to ex-
plain, he succeeded in rescuing his COM
panion. LII the course of the rescue,
however, a man was killed, and this
closed the treaty ports oven more firmly
to him than before.
Tho matter had become terribly
serious now. &c could not go into any
port for fear Of being arrested. and yet
stores had to be obtained for the starv-
. ing island. To u headstrong man like
my father, rendered desperate by DELHI
crate injustice, there was only one nat
ural way out Of it. He made for Hong
! kong, chose a dark night, went down
the harbor in a junk. boarded trading
boat, confined the skipper in his cabin
and took possession Of his cargo, for
which, it is only fair to say, he paid the
full market price. The skipper, how
ever, for some purpose Of his own, for
got the incident Of payment, went
ashore in the early morning and pro-
claimed tho fact to the police that he