The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-12
TALES OF THE CHINA SEAS

told her brother so roundy, saying.
Parents haye the right to dispose of their daugh
~ think my sister responded Tourneau,, that
convent and you persisted and arranged your own
Mother Seraphine looked trife embarrassed, and
Tourneau, pursuing his advantage, cried:
her that L adGTPbo & g h has a right to give
na G bit of d return for all & Of and sha
time and then if the admiral does consent it will
be the worse for him, that is all,
river, where soon after he ordered up the Yang
tse 400 miles below Hankow, where the warships of
was full of his sister and Dragged about her TO his
Xywn AFFAIR tn with Mary S HaSboTd SdOSS went prosper
onsly after meeting with her at Hankow in which
TO make unconditional surrender and to agree to
the engagement between Mary Harbord and her
ice. his own eve lamb the admiral sent her to the
convent at Howchnkwang, blissfully unconscious that
the French lieutenant who had the internal impu-
dence, as Admiral larboFd expressed it, in suphurous
was When IN % M heard that the lady Of his S 0ye
mral he was in an ecstasy: And then, if to
Plete the cycle, of good fortune he got orders in
The sEang liver Which was only possible for @ vessels
Of Light dranght like L,Hirondeile; ,Tourneau pa
course for the squalid little town of Howchn kwaDg,
On shining @ April pG morning s S1nsp w6en the waters had
n and f % nder 6s
time in twevemonth before the little town, and
Tourneap, the young commander, was pulled across
was in full uniform, with side arms. and had with
him seventeen -year-old midshipman, Choubry, as
place, so Tourneau secured by strategem and bully
ing rGkety palangg5 With with faded Yellow silk cur
little Choubry by his side
In the Garden.
The aspect of things was threatening. .Trouneau
saw this in the sullen savage looks OF the people,
the sharp yepng cries of the children playing IN tnG
dies Tourneaas % cooiness $ and and that Of the little mid
fondled their revovers got without accident TO
the entrance of the Taitaos garden,
In troubous times the Chinese officials never refuse
to see European. officer and say to him:
Carrying meanwhile a sharp, curved knife up the
sleeve or in the folds of their robe.
of the Taitao house Tourneau and his aid scrambled
out. Facing the street was wide archway opening
posing from the Chinese point Of view fronted upon
the garden. At the gateway stood an Official Of the
clerks and servants, with Gathering shoes and pig
tails and RaTsb high yGoss t oSd whp T,tao
6s WIG held in his 3and as were the
The interior of the house was handsome after the
tao room, where he sat in state, shock of surprise
through the French commander One glance
room Tourneau had yet seen Ranged around it
European arms and equipments standard compass
to a European vessel, stood in a corner. Along the
wall
the hung ships lanterns. In. corner was
brass cannon such merchant ships use for salut
something which made Toumeau s hot French blood
suddenly reach the boiling point number of Euro
were drapcd together, half covered by the huge yc
low dragon flag of the Chinese empire. The French
flag in full sight. Beneath this decoration sat
tall Chinaman, with face like hammered brass and
voice like peacock g with eatarrh No less per
whom TouTneaT perfectly remembered % as having seen
board the American gunboat Auetta.
Remembering
AIetta, well versed in Chinese ways, had
said that All Fong could not be considered scream
the screws, were fairly, turned upon him. Tourneau
An Eong was big. but not brave, and Tourneau re-
gregter distinction as Judge than as a pirate
Little Choubry, the mdshipman, gazed about him
ments being exchanged between All Fong and
Ionnaeag through an % %nteTpTetGT IGuTne2H had not
D"ssSe to himself suddenlV IN the midst Of tSs
which was fixed upon the French nag half covered
by the yellow ensign of China, he brought his teeth
together with snap but remained led cool when reply
TouTncau was careful TO inform the Tqitao that
and casually inquired whether any marauding bands
Of villains who chose to defy the wishes Of the Taitao
being repeated to him, shook his head vigorously and
declared that the European sisters were dear to
him as the children Of his father and his mother
Then he concluded with the usual speech
''Considcr myself and all my family and servants
at your disposal, and this house and all that is
in it yours. -
.'Thank you,' responded Tourneau in English
without resorng to the Interpreter. ''Snce yoG arc
so good / will avail myself of your kindness and
take possession of that French flag, which, no doubt
you stole
Tourneau kept his eyes fixed upon All Foug, and
at these unexpected words the Chinaman raised him
self up and glaTed with the same angry and woIGsh
he was thief and pirate from the chief quarter
master the Allctta, gunboat.
Then Tourncau, dragging his pistol and cooking it,