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FERGUS HUME (Author of "The Mystery of the -Hossom Cab," &c.).

The Europe will have to lump it. The Powers have been peking at the Dragon these many years. He'll wakes up soon and wuke n meal of them The West doesn't realise the dunger; and in the event of a war, the West will climb down pretty slick"

So arguel Barnes; but i did not believe him. It spite of his travels and experience, lu still had the insular helist in the perfection of Englund and of things English. So ho When James Morris weut ant to take in ten tulke magnificently of what the Empir at Shanghai, woowhere in the late eighties, coull do and would do if tlu Dragon those with whom he forgathered were in the woke up: and ignored the dangerous elements habit of calling hina prig-adjective suppressed. seething around him. Li-Tao might have And his aggressive respectability deserved the enlightened him, for she heard unuch gossip in term. Born and bred in the cathedral city of the bazsers: but Jim snubbed her when she Baormaster, he could not rid himself of a jo-talked "native" to him, and so this little woman pensity for preaching, acquired in that clerical hell her tongue and voxed not her stupid god. atmosphere. Platituios intoned at wrong ma- Sneh was the condition of things at the be ments only bore people, and the colony at ginuing of nineteen hundred, Shanghai tald Jainas as maneb To But it It might or might not have hean the result of plinly, bo was sobbed. And after oge or two his talk with Burnes, but Jim about this time experiences of this kind, he deserted his English fell horno sick. After years of tropical heats, confrères for the society of sach Chinese iner- eternal bay skies, and constant gandy colours, chants as dired to extend sympathy to "he yearned for the cool grey mists of England foreign devil."* In their company I learned for the garden lundscape--above all, för vestfal more than was good for him.

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Parhaps he would not have fallen from grace

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bat for the inevitable woman- Beoruinster bors, and after taking a tender leave of Li-Tao, THE | girl who taught in a Sunday school, and who who cried herself sick, he sailed west, Ho intended to be James' handmaiden when he went with every intention of remaining faithful had made troney enough to take her over. She to his little wife. and left with her a goodly her vowed-with many Scriptural quotations sua of noney. And Li-Tan redoubled her that she would be tris to James until he offerings of paper and baked meats to Quan cams home to marry her, then they would Tin

I go for the protection of her during. out to Shanghai and convert the poor heather. But racial infasare and tim power of the But unfortunately for this scheme, the girl West seized upon ding wher he had unpacked took up with a fascinating enrate, and was this kit in the principal hotel of Ferminister. to Junies From the mail which brought her | Ho pesued the frock seat of civilisation; Detter of

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theciation dated the downfall of /donned its tall hat and went round to call on

He dropped bis preaching in favour of terse language interlayed with atroue words, put his blue ribben into the fire, aut orileñal “pugs at the club. His Friends began to call him Jim then they ught him to play cards. Finally, on a MEE. CHEUNG,

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by this, Tin didn't care for the girl any longer. Ho al however, yet to commit his worst sin. So long as the girl at home lud remained trustu kin, he had kept away from the feminine polyglot population of Shanghai Not so after ho hud raceived that fateful letter. He followed the custom of the country and married Li-Tas. The ceremony was strictly, in conformity with Confucian rits, and Li-Tao doomed it binding. Jin thought otherwise; but he did not tell her so. Por his wife was virtuous, and there might hive ben trouble.

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such friouls of his youth as were yet alive. The maidens of Fiz's recollection-sume long married, some still single-were all equally elderly and prin: youths had fattened into portly gentlemen, who know nothing, and wanted to know nothing, beyond the gay old vity. Dinner and tenis and tesparties did they give in honor of Jim: they talked of the departel Canon, and detailed the news of the past twenty yearing felt like Rip Vas Winkle. But he calmittel himsel to the somnolent infineure of the place, and liked it rather than otherwise; for he felt the greyness and dullness & relief after the clash and cluingur of the gauly Fast.

Then it came about that Jim not a girl-A girl who brought back to him that other who had been faithless a girl, pretty, aul plump, and prin a real English rose with not character sufficient to possess any thorns, They met at a tennis party, and they played singles. Ethel Horper vas her name; and she allowed him to Li-Tan was a pretty, modest little woman, wit in spite of his stoutuessa victory which with a golden skin and almond-shapi eyes. led to his undoing. Perhaps this result had She dressed in gay colours and wore silver pins beau intended by the plump little lady, who had in her hair. Not having the three-inch lity feet carefully informed herself of Jia's worldly of the Chiness women, she was able to walk position, and the amount of bis income. So without a tettering graft; and she was active fushe took to reading books on Chius, and became looking after the day nest which Jim hired imbued with the flea that she could queen it in the outskirts of the city. Alero all Li-To Shanghai If she chose. On the whole she decided afford Jim: and he became as strongly attack Morris of China, and to her own satisfaction. that she could not do better than become Mrs.

and to Jim's bewilderment, she had achieved this desirable end before the time came for Morris's departure for the Far East.

to ler as the West well can be to the East.. Before her joss—it was Quan Yin, the goddess of Mercy-she buint much paper, all on Jim's account. And she spread a table before the shrine with rice cakes and wine, and laid on it pieces of silk for the goddess to clothe herself withal.

*And you will love this contemptible person always she would ask him in her lowery way, at least twenty times a week.

“Always," Jim would reply; adding to this assurance bis formula: You are the dearest and sweetest lily in &hine."

My feet are big, lordly and noble husband: but not so big as my heart. I have a vile gift for your acceptance, gracious being "

Aud en she led him into another room where, leaning against the wall, was a hand- some coffin of curved cadar.

See" cried Li-Tao triumphantly, It R. HAUGHTON & CO.,

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In the whirl of this to him-unexpected courtship and marriage. Jim had had little time for thinking of Li-Tao; but at Snez, with the first whiff of the East, he began to reflect that the house in the Street of the Thousand D.

Blessings still existed, and that L4-Tao awaited his return therein alongside the cedar coffin.

Ethel-good innocent girl-kaow nothing of this pre-matrimonial knot the undoing of which so bothered Jim; and she wondered greatly at his preoccupation. But he carefully explained that he joy in the possession of su charming a wife as herself was too great for words,

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On their arrival at Shanghai, Ethel was de- posited with the wife of a friend who knew no- thing of Li-Tao. and could not therefore tell tales. Taken up with the novelty of all around her, she took no notice of her husband's ge casional absences: it was natural enough that SEE THAT "ALL PACKETS BEAR THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT STAMP,"

after. his long holiday he should bave a good deal of business to attend to. So she stayed “Oh yes-very good of. you, Li-Tao," said under the wing of Mrs. Sorlay, and Jim wont Jim, for he know that according to Uhines cus off to rid himself of Li-Tso. He had paid her tom this was the most acceptable present she two visits before he could bring himself to tell could make. But he did not like the lea; for her the trath; for her delight at his return had he was growing etout, and he knew that ho ran been unbounded. At last, however, it came out some risk of apoplexy when the heat came. Foria Jim's most ungraceful manner. quite a week afterwards he was more moderato • You will leave me, noble husband!"\ wopt 1, Queen's Road Central Repairs of

in his "pegs" lest he should occupy it untimely. Li-Tuo wher the bad grasped the situation. Watches

But he said nothing to Li-Tao of all this, know?" And you have taken a Yang keciize (forsign and Clocks be competenting, as he did, that the Chiness take as much devil) to be your wife--your second wife!" European exports, at molerate rates.

pride in their coffins as the Egyptians did in added, looking up, "for

the eldersho their tombs. BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. TENDERS are invited for the General Farms for a period of three years com- anencing from the 1st January, 1e, as herein below described :--

Of course the poor little resture” maida” well," he observed to a brother ten-trailer, “but you can't think how the thing worrios me! I on't want to be constantly reminded of the next world."

You are

Humph ̈retorted the friend. perhaps not so well prepared for the next world as when you came out Bust.”

It's thanks to such as you that I'm unfit for it now," replied Jim, Dut Li-Teo," ho went on reflectively, “ I can't quite understand hor.

OPIUM. The sole right to import, manufac ture and sell raw Opin. Chandu and, Opfum Dross in British North Borneo and Tabuun.

SPIRITS. The sole right to license the manufacture and sale of wel Wines and Spirits as are usually consumed by Chinese und other Asinties, and the right to isane: licenses to soll Wines Beer and Spirits under Aid Barnes. I've lived amongst 'em for

- Who ever doos understand the Chinese Notification dated 1st February, 1993,

PAWN-BROKING. The sole right to keeperer. But then I haven't married yellow thirty years, and I'm as much in the dark as and licence others to keep Pawn-broking wife, you see, he grunted. You have, and Establishments.

GAMBLING. The sole right to keep and you seem to like the connection. to license the keeping of Gambling Homes.

It's only a temporary one. When I return (1) Thesa tenders must be sent under sealed

to England I shall pension Li-Tai off. My cover to reach Sandakan by 2000 on the fist father's a Cannon of Boerminister Cathedral, day of October, 1991, and must be addressed to you know," he explained with a grin. Faney the Secretary to the Governor. The works the task if I tok home a Chinese wife!"

Revenus Farms" must be written on the

"Humph! I suppose there are objections: outside of the envelope.

but of conese if you remain hore nati yon

upy the coffin that ornaments your drawing rooni, the objections vanish ***

(2) The Laws and Regulations governing these Furms can be seen on application at the

"I'm not going to die ont here," returned

"You know I aun put of your religion, Li- -Tao"-replied Jim in great embarrasgment,

**And I can have only one wife.”

"Myself!

No-dove mates only to dove. I have married a woman of my own people.**

"You are tired of me—I am old end ugly.”

Li-Tex, you are is pretty as ever. "But can't you understand, I must eling to my owɑ ruce."

Li-Tao could not understand. She loved him with all her soul; she had been his wife those tea or more years; and so she hated the foreign hatred of the east-a hatred like unto devouring women who had taken her plase with all the

would have none of his money. "Only kill me fama. Jim offered to pension her off; hat abe only kill me!" she cried; and moreover brenght him a knife that he might do ne she wished. Naturally enough, he refused; but still she pleaded.

•You must kill me! Only thus can I get you from the foreign woman. When you die, mine you shall be in the next world. Quen Yin will bring us together. It is my last request, bolored land, Your vile slave would die by your generous and beneficent hand."

It was in vain that Jim tried to argus her out of this idea. Die she would; and when he

Office of Messrs. Guthrie and Co.. Singapore,, Jim, I'm making money pretty fast, and ne refused to gratify her request, she took her de

of Messrs. Gibb, Livingston and Co., Hong- kong, of the Malay Blast at Kwala Lumper and of the Treasurer-General at Sandakan.

(3.) The Opium Regulations are similar to those in the Straits Settlements..

(4) The Gambling Regulations are similar to those in the Malay States.

(5.) These Tenders are invited for the whole Territory, but any tenderer may submit u soparate tender for any of these Farina or for any portion of the State of British North (6.) Every tender must state the nature of the Security to be offered, which must be partly in cash, to be deposited in an approved 798, Der Vinx Road Central Bank, and partly in land and house property Hoogkozy, 14th August, 1901. ·

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in Boerminister and marry an English girl." soon as I can retire with a plum, I'll settle It seemed as though Jim's throat to go home and get married in Beorminster was a vain one, or perhaps he had not made money enough, At all events he stayed in Shughui with Li- Tao, and got thoroughly polarisal. The life vidently suited hira, so did Li-Too, Moreover the old folk at home died, and Jio ad less cause than ever to revisit Eugland. So he saved his money.and grew stout. Now and again he took a run round Asin, as in the old days when he was the virtuous James Morris. But most of his time was passed in the Street of the Thousand Blessings.

there was no sign of the coffia leiry occapied. The year nineteen hundred came round, and

It stool in the drawing-room as of göre; und L-Tao took as much pride in it as ever.

Barnes, who had just returned from Peking,

Then there came trouble in the outside world.

had much to tell Jim about it.

There's going to be a shine in the tents of Kedar," mid hs.” Oh, I know what I'm my- ing Morris. That old devil the Dowager Empress, is about to make trouble. She's play..

purture, and went, almost as poor as when she had come to him. I am tired of this white talk," she said meaning her unsuccessful argumeat My ways are not your ways. sill go back to my own people at Tientsin. They will understand."

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things Jim had given her and weat inland to So Li-Tao mado up a bundle of all the protty

the city which is near Peking- in the shadow of the Son of Heaven" as the Chinese decribe it. Before she went, one last wordsbe addressed to the white man who had betrayed her—a word of warning. Huan Chia hao ss fut erh! said she; and Jim was Chinese scholar enough to know that it meant Change the plates, sheireferred to her own death, and not to Ethel's. and the house wife will die." But he thought

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