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THE TEMPLE OF THE BRAVE DEED.
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AMID THE BROODING HILLS.
HOW LOVE PAID THE GREATEST SACRIFICE./"
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A PEEP INTO ANCIENT HISTORY,
[BY HERBERT FIELD.]
Away among the bare yellow hills fed retribuciore, for the Puntis of (Yat's men sallied forth. With ter
those days preferred the plough to rife ye:ls. Ming Chang's troops the sword and the Eshing.net to rushed forward to engage them the spear."
but, almost immediately, the young leader caw he had made a fatal error. The raiders within the city merely clanged the gates shut again, leaving those who had pass. Then, from the walls, the besieged attacked the beeiegers,
to the north of Kongmoon's walled sit there stands a tumble-down joss-house. The four stone pen corka, crudely designed. which adorn the corners of its crazy, red tiled roof are crumbling with age, The stone walls of the tempie hart Been pitted and scored by wind) and give them the lesson they deed through to be hacked to pieces. and rain the crude daubs of faded į red paint upon the posts upholding the section of the roof which covers the cracked fag stoned porch re present Chinese characters, but many of them are so fuded by the passing of time that it is difficult for any but the most learned scholar to decipher their meaning.
Within the dark interior of the joss-house, a mumbling old priest, sere and withered, with but one yellow tooth in his shaven old head, attends to the huge stone juar which perches upon a stone altar,
images which form its bodyguard and to which coolics are wont to knu-tum ere they dare pay obcis- ance to the more potent joss who
rules the destinies of all much as
pass
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But a young leader of the "Ming family was stirred by the stories told by refugees to raise an army and endeavour to meet the raiders
served. Succees had come mort easily than he had expected, for his army arrived in the hills above Kongmoon at the precise moment that his scouts reported a force of raiders marching toward the walled city. They told him more, that the redoubtable and terrible Ah Yat, one of the most bloodthirsty and reckless of all the Island's pirate leaders, was at the head of the marauding army.
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The city was kept in a state of siege for two weeks. Water gave out on the eighth day, a period of drought having caused the wells to become almost empty when the sack of Kongmoon firat began. Food was more than scarce, "but the indomitable fighting spirit and stoicism of the raiders kept them holding cn.
Fatal Laxity.
A scose of security came upon army Ming Chang's men. They felt that
approach. The raiders moved slow ly, for there was no need of haste the people of the South were too indolent and far too docile to d more than bang gonge to scare the invaders away.
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Ming Chang posted his towering above a number of lesser among the hills in the form of the surrender of the pirates would i crescent, planning to creep upon the city under cover of darknees be only a matter of time. And so and completely surround it while they rested and waited and made the raiders were busy within the their accond and stül more disk mistake. They grew lax, walls, for he W26
confident that astrous. neither, the people of Kongmoon and when four large junks arrived within the shadow of the nor the raiders were aware of his on the coast as near Kongmoon as Temple of the Brave Deed.
possible and discharged over Ming Chang's forces were caught men to effect Ah Yat's, rescue, An Old-Time Fighter,
unaware and, after a desperate but The joss itself is a stone image
short encounter, were completely of a king who grew old in the
routed and the young lender was Land of the Dragon when Western cirilization was young. Even to And so it came about that Ah taken prisoner. Convinced that he the most blase visitor, the old Yat sacked the city just before would be tortured and put to death fellow given a striking impression nightfall. When darkness came on, y Ah Yat, they formed a Proces of austere strength, and one feels the glare of fires and the din from their own villages.
sion of Mourning and returned to that the mirror which forms part within told the watchers who were of the crown upon his head, to converging upon the city that the faithful little concubine aid among All, that is, but Ah Lân, The scare away such devils as may raiders were looting. murdering the heaps of slain who were left dare to face the reflection of their those victims they did not wish te lying beyond the city wall. As cwn faces, is a superfluity. Des impress into slavery, and generally night fell she changed her clothes pite its reputed age, the image is busily occupied.
for the sam-fa of a fallen pirate. with a party of men who were loot. and cleverly contrived to mingle ing the bodies of the dead. By this means she was able to get inside the city. Within a short time she found the building in which her lord was held captive. The guards Among Ming Chang's followers had not been changed. There were was Ab Lin (the Lily), one of his four of them, and they sprawled conenhines" who, although a hand-about the doorway sleepily await: some young girl, was yet not re-ing their reliefs. garded with any great favour by
The Lily,
in good condition, its yellow, robes 31ing Chang Fei found no dith. being fresh-coloured as though the culty in completely surrounding the pigment has been many times re-eily, and then his forces made newed. The queer-shaped sceptre themselves more or less comfortable held at an angle in its right hand until daylight should appear. dennes that the jos is the image of an old-time Emperor, and we are not surprised when the cus todian of the tumbie-down temple informs us that the ancient ruler was a great fighter, just withall, but terrible to oppose in his wrath. At the foot of the idol n dark stalu on the grey stone of the altar atirnets our attention. We bestow a few silver coins upen the old priest, and then learn the story of
the brave deed.
the youthful leader, who bestowed contrived to wrinkle close to one Like a furtive shadow Ab Lin the major part of the time he of them. As she sensed her devoted to his amours upon other presence he half turned his hend mach se concubines, But. Ab Lin worship-but, before he could ped her hero with the unswerving utter a sigh, Ah Lên had driven a and dumb fielity of a dog; it his knife into his heart. She dealt Six hundred years or so ago, we passing shadow but alighted upon with each of the others in the are told, a great army, led by one i her, she was happy. If he gave same manner, and, in a few seconds. Ming Chang Hui, camped in the her one of his rare miles, she felt had cut the bonds which bound her hills, waiting to give battle to a that her neglected little life was, lord and commenced to change combined force from Hong Kong after all, not to be exchanged with clothes with him, explaining in and Kow Loon. For a long time, that of the wealthiest woman in the whispers as she did so that fresh raiders from the Island had been land. If her lord frowned upon guards would soon he posted and descending upon the villages, takher, depend upon it, for some in
the murders discovered. If it was
ing women, children, and cattle scrutable reason, his frown was found that their prisoner had back with them to their rocky fast fully justified. ness after razing villages to the ground. Always the raiders escap
At early dawn the southern gates escaped there would be such a hue of the city were flung open and Ah !
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To-day.
(October 24)
Concert: Helena May Institute, 5.30 p.m..
Queen's Theatre: "West Zanzibar."
World Theatre: Frontier."
"The
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Ten Dancer: Hong Kong Hotel, and Peninsula Hotel, 3 p.m."
Dinner Dances: Peninsula Hotel of and Hong Kong Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
"Tides: High, 1.08 am; Low, 9.51 Last a.
Star Theatre: Beware of Mar ried Men."!
Warwick Revue:" High Lights," Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.
Tes Dances Hong Kong Hotel, and Peninsula Hotel, 6 p.m.
Dinner Dances; H.K. Hotel, Ponimula and Repulse Bay Hotels, 2.30 p.m.
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World Theatre: "The Last Frontier."
Star Theatre: "Beware of Mar- ried Men!"
Warwick Revue: "Airy Noth ings, Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.
University Arts Association, Theatricals, 8.45 p.m.
Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, Penin sula Hotel, 4.30 p.m.
Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel, Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels 8.30 p.m.
Tides: High, 220 a.m; Low, Baseball: E.K.B.C. v. Filipinos. 11.16 cm. Cricket-Interport Trint, Hang European Mails: Outward : Kong C.C. ground; Division 11. Europe vid Marseilles (Kalyan), University . P. and S. (L.); 10.30 a.m., Europe vid Siberia Royal Artillery v. Hong Kong 0.0. | (Ixion), 10 am. (F); Civil Service v. Reoreio (F.); Navy, Kowloon C.C. (F.).
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Friday, (October 25.) Christian Fellowship meeting, Helena May Institute, 10.30 0.
Auction of Postage Stamps, mert Bros., 5.15 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "West Zanzibar."
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Tea Dance: Repulse Bay Hote!,
World Theatre "The Last Chinese "A" v. K.O.S.B.; Eastern | 5 p.m. Frontier."
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