The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11
HsIAO CTRATAGEM
BY G. w. STILES.

Copyright 1908, by 6. s. Mcclure companyl
a thing a maiden who not be-
trothed Moreover it was foreigner who had be
witched the daughter of Ii Amei certain strongly
made named Thorndke who for his sins forced
to live in the province of Fupe.
Wilkins Thorndyke succeeded in Office, and
Wilkins climbed into the antiquated rail coach and Travelled
coastwad Thorndyke behind full of enthusiasm
Ii Ame the father of shu NJ was third rank mandarin
and of great earnngthat he had repeated by
memory the four classics and the five feat worthy OF
Confucus himself This felt interest in Thorndyke
So Ii Amei made the Englshman welcome to his yamen
The magistrate habit of sleeping frequently
secrecy interesting
the wall and
draw his head above the top.
upon comforter stretched
the grass and beneath jasmine blossoms.
The day the wall and lay at her feet
The jasmnes between the wall and the women's
dialect which difficult imagine and he
had made love before, he got along extremely Well
a pretty the honorable
courtyard attached Ii Ameis and when Hsao Ching
discovered he turned dozen somersauts in his deadly
vengeance Unfortunately mistake, for
ecbed the plum from whence he had behed the court
foreign daughter had heard
his choke of horror and caught glimpse of his pale face as he
descended the
Instantly misfortune and he
cold.
ewhat shall dc? he asked
"Wait" replied Ching think
consequently If
ouse . "a my hd d rlat how sne native has
looked upon face and that dishonored."
Thorndyke scanned the girl in amaemen for he had not
fathomed the subteness of the oriental.
Meanwhile heard the soughsough of Hsiao ohings
garments they scraped plum
than securely fixed the crotch of the first
Shu NJ pressed the knee of her lover He
wall beneath the tree in while the girl
thonged into the
they discovered Hsiao Ching the covered
the engineers revolver
The unfortunate suddenly
taken in the act he given
eighty strokes with the bamboo and imprisoned.
days this trick of Shu Nu Hsiao Ching
leased as anger cooled, while Ching
plum with Shu down hating
Celestial is thorough in emotions
advice of shu Nu Thorndyke proposed marriage
daughter to Ii Amei He played skifuy on the old
motives touching avarice strongly
Then Iii consented.
Then Ching overwhelmed rage
man he hated girl he happy together
telling that he afraid
the foreign devil had threatened him.
The next morning he in canal and from
sand
evident that he had committed suicide by drowning.
comprehended instantly this sratagem of Hsiao
Ching he the witnesses be summoned
dispatched bring the Engshman before him.
Then Ii Amei Thorndyke ignorant
and foolish since a command
the roundhouse instead of going Tentsn where he would
safety
The engineer hanf English
twenty natives. white
who were charge machinery kept
that burning
% and flashed over the strangely gesulatinp fp
ves readiness the
by he power, and the engine moved
Fer they the up a places
little to
afairs It rained spears the first baf
mile although slightly
they all alive when the engine pulled into the Tentsn
station
the playing resident in China
and man of rare personal He listened silently to tha
tale. which ended with
order return to his post
would anywhere else in
you essential to
in China, aud that is tact"
Thorndyke more shu NJ the daughter
Ii Amei for him under the yellow jasmnes but Ii
Amei oath by never again
would he trust a foreigner