Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-02-06
rURsE AND CHILD BECAME INsEPARABLE.

NURSE AND CHILD BECAME INSEPARABLE.
her superb stepping stone in his
diplomatic career When the day of
her departure arrived the two were
engaged, and Grey had promised to
follow and overtake her by the time
she reached Singapore.
The news spread abroad, and Grey
was overwhelmed with congratulations.
When he returned to the consulate
after seeing the steamer depart which
bore away Miss Trevelyan he sank in a
chair and was lost in day dream. He
saw himself married and a happy ia
Their; he saw the aged cousin die in
whom the Trevelyan estates and the
baronetcy of Dorset rested and the
fortune and title pass to his infant son;
he saw himself secretary of legation
and then ambassador at Versailles or
st. Petersburg
The first thing was to clear off all his
business and send Nj HUI to her ia
theirs with a handsome settlement, as
is the custom of the far east. This he
did with great alacrity. Though cold
and calculating, Grey was not at all
mean. He settled on Nj Hu $500. which
made her Independent for life and
which was twice the amount usually
given in such cases. He also arranged
for the education of the two boys. Nj
HUI received the news with singular
calmness. Grey had expected and was
prepared for frenzied outbreak, but
none came. Despite the seven years
too much engrossed in himself to be-
come acquaint ed with her real nature.
The days passed rapidly, and soon
Grey was stea ming southwark on a red
funnel boat to overtake Miss Trevel-
yam. Nj Hu went to her parents home,
where her wealth made her now a con-
spicuous figure. III fortune seemed to
have marked her for its own. She was
robbed. A branch of the How Qua
bank, where most of her money was
lodged, failed irretrievably, and the
banker hanged himself in orthodox
Mongolian style. She wrote several
times to Grey, but the letters never
reached him Then she drifted away
rom Tientsin and was given up for
dead
Grey overlook his fiancee at Singa-
pore and, with her and her party, made
the rest of the journey to London.
Two months afterward they were
married, and the society journals gave
column to the affair The honeymoon
was spent ON the continent and Christ
mas and New Years on the Nile. Then
they travelled leisurely to the far east
At Hongkong Grey received notice that
he had been assigned to Chinkiang on
the Yangtse river, and thither the cou-
pie repaired. A year after their arrival
Mrs. Grey became the mother of what
the port doctor was pleased to call '.the
best British babe ever born ON the
great river" Chinkiang is full of fever
and malaria. These had no influence
on the babe, which thrived from the
first, but they played havoc with the
mother and the English nursemaid.
The latter fell so sick that she had to
be sent home. She was replaced by
poor native woman, All Tai, who was
employed by a, missionary not far from
the consulate.
The new nurse was not very attrac
tive. Her face was prematurely old
and marred by recent attack of small
pox. Her eyebrows and lashes and
much of her front hair were gone, and
the malady had affected her voice,
which was harsh and deep. But be-
meath her unprepossessing exterior the
woman displayed intelligence. fidelity
and skill. The baby took to her. and as
the mother grew weak the nurse and
child became inseparable. Grey paid