The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-05

was shameful thing n a maiden who was not be-
u rothed. Moreover, it was foreigner who had be-
wched the daughter of Amei q certain strongly
made Engshman named Thorndyke who for his forced
to live in the province of Hupei
wilkins was the Thorndyke succeeded in office and
wilkins climbed into the antquaed rail coach and travelled
coastward but Thorndyke behind full of enthusiasm
for his work and the Chinese.
Ii Amei the father of shu Nu
and man of learninga say had repeated by
memory the four classics and the worthy
confucius himself This Thorndyke
SO Ii Amei made the Englishman welcome to his yamen
The magistrate possessed the habit of sleeping frequently
and while Ii Amei slept Thorndyke the
courtyard wall suggests secrecy and is therefore interesting
ana one afternoon he ventured place his hands the wall
draw his head above the top.
Shu Nu reclining a stretched ON
the grass and beneath the jasmine blossoms
The next day he dropped the wall and lay at her
The asmines between the wall quar-
ters Thondyke had picked up quite coloqua
DIALECT which is not difficult people imagine and he
had made love before, he along extremely weI.i
So here was pretty affair taking place the honorable
courtyard attached to Ii Ameis and when siao Ching
discovered he turned dozen somersaus in his deadly
and swoe vengeance Unfortunately he
recmbed the plum tree from whence he had behed
ship of the foreign fend and Ii Ames
his choke of horror and caught glimpse of his
Instantly she told Thorndyke misfortune and he
turned cold. ..
"what we do?' he asked
"Wait" replied shu Nh. "Isao Ching think saw
him; consequently he will returns
desecrang my fathers house will rush inside the
quarters and head native has
looked face and that dshonored" a.
Thorndyke scanned the girl in amazemen for he had not
fathomed the subteness the oriental.
Meanwhile they heard sough-sough of Hsao Chng,s
they scraped the plum tree He
no more than securely fixed in the
limb before shu M the was over
the wall and beneath the tree in moment girl ran
shekng into the house When the attendants
outer courtyard they discovered sao Ching in the
by the engineers revolver.
The was hailed before the suddenly aroused
magistrate and since he taken in given
eighty strokes with the bamboo and imprisoned f
Ten days after this trick of Shu Ching
leased Ii Ames had cooled but while ching
went up the plum tree in love with shu Nu he hating
Thorndyke and Celestial thorough emotions
marriaps
with his daughter to Ii Ame He sklfuly old
motives, touching strongly.
Then ii Amei consented
Then Ching with rage because the
he hated and the girl he loved happy together
Ching about telling every he afraid
for his life because the foreign devil had threatened
The next morning he dead in the canal the
his nails and the absence was
evident that he had committed suicide by drowning
Ii Amci comprehended instantly this stratagem Hsao
Nevertheless he the be summoned
dispatched runners bring the Engishman him.
Then Ii Amei perceived that Thondke both ignorant
foolish since, with railroad remained
in the roundhouse instead of going to Tens where
have been in safety.
could stand off twenty natives He the white men
IN charge of the machinery Chinese
the walls BY night men around
oundhouse and the fires which burning every few
gmmeed and flashed strangely gesticuang ag-
The the roundhouse fred locoo-
When all in readiness the were opened
by the steam power, and the engine out
Fer all they knew the track dozen places
but the number matteed little One would settle their
affairs ained spears bullets and ha
mile but the roadbed although slightly wound
ed they all alive when the engine pulled the Tienn
station.
up the superintendent whom he fua z.
the club playing whist The was an old resident t S
and man of listened silently TO t
engineers which with reauest For bsIo n.
order to return to his post ff'3s
"Yor would not be safe there sa anywhere else m
the cast, You brave you lack oe ~
Success I'm China, aud that Is tact" 1N'-~. -
Thorndyke came west once and Nu the daughter
of Ii Ame wept for him yellow asuInes nt
Am swoe great oath by psn snd gods that s..
Would hs trust foreigner. 81 80 .'-~-s.-s