The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-04
THE DOOM OF SING LOW.
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 sidered joke and later, believing the
 tale malicious lie, had turned her sis
 ter Celestial out of the house, with
 calmly expressed convictions as to the
 fate for liars and scandalmongers who
 gould lift tongue against such an hon.
 Orable and noble man as her lord and
 husbond, Sing Low. Wherefore An Toy
 had departed, giving expression to
 many naughty words and tearfully
 saying-just as civilized woman might
 have done under similar circumstances
 r-"The next time she meddled in the
 attempt to open a deceived Wifes
 eyes"-
 Placidly indignant yet somewhat
 amused, Fay Lee went back to her en-
 broidery and fresh cup of tea. The
 incident did not seem of enough inn
 portance to repeat to her husband, and
 it soon escaped her mind, That any
 one should dare to tell such things of
 her most honorable and faithful lord, expecting her to believe them! She
 did believe, however, when very late that same night Sing Low came home,
 mot alone, and much the worse for liq-
 our. He had brought his new wife,
 Felipia, to her home, he stated, with
 drunken dignity, and Fay Lee must wait upon her, and see that she had what she wanted. For she (Felipia) was to be the honorable mistress of the house, and Fay Lee and the servants must bear themselves accordingly.
 Your Chinese wife is no creature of thigh tragedy, and Fay Lee acted upder m well hah1Up6 Chinese lady should, placing perfumed water and powders and silken apparel flor the new wife. No attentions were neglected, though Sing Low watched vigilantly for them. And only when her services were no longer needed did the supplanted woman go forth full of murderous fury and hate from the house of her husband. She had a cousin who was a high official in the secret society to him she went. Not that there is any recourse for Chinese wife If her husband wishes to take unto him. iself No. spouse, for it is according Ito the law. But all things naturally sEhould be done in order, and the law of dignity and self respect had been transgressed by Sing Low, who had not aeven advised Fay Lee of his attention. Ut was an insult to her and all her fam lily, which the cousin was not slow to realize. But insults are not prison offences, and must be avenged private Ny; wherefore the cousin and Fay Lee said nothing, but bided their time, having in mind way which they could be more than avenged.
 For quite a long time, as much as a srnonth, Sing Low was exceedingly hap py with his pretty young wife. But Felipia was young woman of much | @prightliness, and she had not married | the portly old Chinaman for the sole | purpose of w-towing to him and em- broidering his clothes and waiting on l him hand and foot-not bit of it. And ] 50 she emphatically stated. On the con- trary, she wished many friends, and | pretty costumes, and boxes at the bull | fights and the one small theatre that l Madre de Dios possessed She had no | intention of being any mans slave!
 And so began the tormenting of poor old Sing Low. He soon learned that in the bewitching Felipia he had caught ] a veritable Tartar, and that unless lumored she could and would make his | life torment to him. Wherefore, like a wise man, he promptly gave in to all things-that is, in all things but one. | Despite her every endeavor she could not make him tell her what went on at the meetings of his secret society. On that one subject alone Sing Low re- mained mute, and no cajolery or bland- ishment could move him.
 As time went on, and the influence of his Mexican wife told on him, Sing Low began to sink lower and lower, both and physically. He drank steadily now, and more and more of the sblack smoke became necessasry-and even the apple of his eye his restaurant, J with it's American pies, began to be neglected. So that many whisperings and reports got about, and more than one high official of the secret society," . murmured distrust. Meanwhile worn and aged woman (hardly to be recog- nized as the portly Fay Lee of yore) watched and waited eager for revenge. And in the secret society of the Sons ] of the Silver Land" one of the high officials went about stealthily spreading { reports that traitor was among them; :