Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-01-22

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 Treveyan he sank in |
chair and was lost in a day dream. He ,
saw himself married and 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 secret;Sy 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
TIERS with 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 600, 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 frenZed outbreak but
none came. Despite the seven years
Of companionship the man had been
too much engrossed in himself to be-
come acquainted with her rear nature.
The days passed rapidly. and soon
Grey was steaming southwark on red
funnel boat to overtake Miss Trevel-
yam. Nj HUI went to her parents home,
where her wealth made her now 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
Monaghan style. She wrote several
times to Grey, but the letters never
reached him. Then she drifted away
from 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
a 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 Chnkiang, 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 tc
be sent home. She was replaced by q
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 prematurey old
and marred by recent attack of small
pox. Her eyebrows and lashes and
much Of her front hair were gone, ani
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 ant
: child became inseparaDle. Grey PAID
little attention to either. What thought
. he did not give to his office was be-
= slowed on his wife, who was slowly
becoming a helpless invalid. He APP
q pealed to the ambassador and after
y much red tape obtained transfer from
Chinkiang to his old post. Che Foo.
y Mrs. Grey heard the news with Ian
guild smile. So low was her vitality
that the prospect of exchanging dreary
and miasmatic Chnkiang for sunny
" and picturesque Che Foo hardly stir
Il red her heart. Grey noticed her apa'
c thy, but said nothing. She had played
her part in his life's drama and now
was Of but secondary Importance
. Wealth and power were to come to hin
- through the stalwart baby growing il
J. the garden with the nurse. Within 8
II year or two, according to reports from
y home, the present baronet would be nj
n more, and then new career would be
!. gin for both the baby and his father
|. Prepare tons for the voyage to the
Y north were soon made. They sailed
=. down the mighty river to Shanghai ant
d waited in that metropolis for a coas
d steamer to Che Foo. One arrived, anC
s by some coincidence it proved to be tn,
J. same which had carried both Miss Ire
II velyan and thereafter Grey from CHI
!. Foo to Shanghai. The master, Captain
!. Daniels gave them hearty welcome
r. and set aside for them the best cabin il
n his stanch little boat
:. The northeast monsoon had Just Sc