Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-04-19

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could see tina: he chofcd consunedly.
exit he took up a position where he
could see their faces as the lamplight
streamed upon them. Evidently satis-
fed with his scrutiny, he chose his
carriage and entered it. A minute or
so later and we We're pounding along
through the night.
We arrived at Denbigh without mis-
hap and there acquired rooms on the
outskirts Of the town. For some six
or eight weeks we pursued quiet, un-
eventful life, and my father, who
scarcely ventuTed out of the house for
the first eight or ten days, gradually
began to throw off the fear which
seemed to clothe him as cloak. But
though he went abroad he seemed un-
able to forget. He"never left his room
without first going to the window to
see who was in the street; he never
stepped out from the door without first
taking a hasty glance up and down
the roadway, and when in the street
itself his eyes were forever darling
keen glances in every direction. Even
upon the highroad, seeing solitary
figure advance toward him. he showed
unmfstakable signs Of apprehension
until the person was we'll in view He
was looking for somebody; he expected
some one. He seemed assured of the
meeting and yet fearful of it. What
would happen then? His evident fear
tended toward catastrophe. Being
fatalist, think he had no doubt what
would be the result Of the encounter.
During this period my own soreness
wore off, and as knew him better l
discovered the suggestion of many
good points In him and when the terror
was not on him jovial to a degree Or
rather l should say be showed the
wreck Of stanch heartiness from
which one might guess what the ship
had been. And so began to take" an
interest in him and his affairs and
thought less of myself and my Uncle
Jim. l will not pretend that felt for
him anything like the affection which
I had bestowed upon my mother, but
he was my father, and. account for it
as you may, one must take a certain
amount Of interest in ones parents
Thus his fears became my fears, and l
used to long for him to take me into
his confidence, but that. despite numer-
Gus broad hints, he would never do, re-
garding me as nothing more than a
boy. Yet boy as was misfortune had
sharpened my wits, and, piecing his
words together, / knew that he feared
the yellow, slit eyed men of the east. l
had not forgotten the man with the
strange eyes nor the little brown faced
gentleman who had stood in the door
Of the waiting room. 1:
l remember once reading out to him
the account of an attack by a Chinese
mob on an English mission during
which the rioters had set the place on
fire and deliberately burned several Of
the inmates. Ex~s .r~@ e.. .f#
!, $50 like themr' he said. 81 loathe
the yellow. Shiny swine. Cruel, treach-
erous, they know neither pity nor mer-
cy. OF course it's only English life and
English property. 1t doesn't in the
least matter to the bloated fools who
sit at home and fancy they know how
TO govern outside of England. It's not
their property. It's not their life. Ig-
norant, pigheaded fellows, they want
whipping, every one Of them, They
are responsible for these outraees On
Englishmen because they do not make
the name Of England feared. Heavens,
II they'd only give me command Of the
squadron and free hand I'd teach
those yellow devils and all the world
besides what the power Of England liz.
It makes me mad, !" he continued. Ito
think that our ministers insist upon
treating these Asiatics as civilized be.
ings. Any sign Of courtesy or of con- COM
Citation has but one meaning Tor them
fear. They have5neyer been treated
as intelligent human beings. and they
DO not expect such treatment. Give
them orders; don't ask. favors.., I Il .s'
am afraid my father got vervs ex 81.
cited az he dilated on the delinuuenul-.5
cies Of the Asiatics and that Is nsed
some language which might 5 +. 1at.o 1,l,1Dd
stirring when delivered Il from 81 the.
bridge of : ship. but which vottnld . So
:5silnSu la out of place IN .. decent
narrative. He also spoke with con con-
tempt Of & her ma esty government
and rave IN Soma 80, ~ . I'd.