The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-11

mules up to the runaway pace. which. as
every mule owner is aware is as the
runaway Of either horse donkey or zebra
Bridging the bitches and ruts as the
breeze does; down three feet deep into the
shlft OF the sand, and up as many over
the lnnumerable hummocks: splash into
the Shiny pools; dash over the millet end
marsh!ands; bang into the mud villages
Wnere the inhabitans fed before him into
their houses; slap-dash into the vast
plains where the graves mounded up by
millions.
Never a care had Murray and his
mount Tor the sacred tombs, the vener-
aole ancestors; nay, by Buddha himself
the fWenty-four Incompatible kickers
reel and bound into the midst OF whole
taIn1iy OF mandarins and the exposed
collin of one of them rattles in a thou
sand splints about Murray's ears The
princess begins to be terrified nothing is
SO abhorent and blasphemous to tho
Chinese as an undevout approach to the
grave of great-grandfather.
We shall reach the right side of the
great yellow pagoda yet. princess" Muir
ray calls back.
But Princess Yu Tu for the first time
LIS in doubt Shades Of the genii where
IS she now? She peeps out under the
blue baize screen to behold herself
humping at the rate of twenty miles an
hour into the Great Avenue of stone ami
mails, the camels and elephants which
stand and sit there in rows marking the
graves of her own illustrious forefathers!
Yonder rises the cool hill of the purple
city against the deep-blue sky; nearer are
the salt hills; there towers the great yell
low pagoda itself; here, not ten yards
away, comes a horseman full tilt, with
his spear poised and his bow and arrows
in evidence. Yes, now it is plain that she
for he dxaGn riNr, Ne
graves; she must suffer because she has
sinned and permitted herself to COM
mune with the foreign devil Oh, for
some written prayers to burn! Oh, for
some josh sticks! Oh, for one glimpse Of
the adored face of Fa Moo before she
has to die!
At that instant Murray had tho chance
Of parrying the newcomers spear at short
range, AND by a grip on it like a tigers
on new-found lamb, he seized the rcins
in his teeth, twisted the weapon out of
the enemys grasp with his right hand,
dug into his pocket for mis- other pistol
with his left. and pounded his mount with
his knees; his finger was on the trigger
when shrek from the princes and
simultaneous cry from the horseman,
'Fa Moot? ''Yu TUT" caused him to stop
short.
Then. without more ado, the lover of the
princess bent his bow and struck his ar.
row to rid the earth Of the ACQUIRED blu
ish-eyed devil who was, Of ccurse, essay
ing to rob him of his beloved; also Muir.
ray again laid his finger or the trigger,
and 1t is quite impossible to gay whether
white or yellow corpse wot;iA have been
left at the meet of the stone CameIs and
elephant had not the little princess, still
sporting the shoes of the Astor house
cook, leaped out Of the cart, and reckless
of hoofs, arrows. bullets, wheels, tombs
or ancestors. thrown hergs.f between the
astonished combatants, crying out in her
native language. of course:
Stop, Fa Moo! Stop, Jackie de-eahl
Stop, Fa Moo, my beloved! Behald me
at the right side Of the great yellow pa
coda, and it is Jackie dea can, the hon.
orable American mister whom we must
cherish forever, because we owe it to him
that 1 anne here, and that my honorable
father lies soaking in g. ditch far back"
And Fa Moo dismOunted anI had some
conversation In private with the princess,
While Murray put up mis- pistol and
Quieted down his mules. Then followed
know-tows, compliments, as surances, pro-
foundest thanks, showers of blessings in.
Vocations of the gods. Twas Murray who
ventured to recommend a speedy depar-
ture, who lifted the princess up behind
Fa Moo on his saddle, who pressed a sur
reptitious kiss on her mite Of yellow
hand, who promised to go and visit them
after they were safely married II Port
Arthur
There were shinging drops In the prin-
cess little eye corners when she babe
"good-bye;" when she begged 3iurray's
acceptance of the jewel of Fa Moo: when
she sang out:
Come Polt Arthur side, Jackie le-eah,
Fa Moo lice you soon" And off gallop-
ed the horse bearing the little princess
and her lover.
When they looked back just at the am
gle where they turned away eastward
from the great yellow pagoda, they de-
serted the six mules. peacefully browsing
amid the tonbs, and Mr.. Murray seated
comfortably in the niche of a stone CANE
els neck, just striking a fusee and light
ing a cigar
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