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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SHORT STORY.

THE PILGRIM.

BY FRANCIS HILL.

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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1913,

bloezzair'! E ees stay out wid de dam'-fool shoop!"

"They wouldn't drive," mo notonously repeated the boy;

"Where? "she dully demand-"they wouldn't drive. Would ed again.

they, Alecek, old chap? They wouldn't drive, Aleo, would they 7"

"Hey!" shouted George. *I do not know! But eet ees not far! I weell go fin' beem!

“I'll go with you,” she said. George leapad in the air and waved his arms.

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SECRETS OF THE TOWER.

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There is possibly no part of the Tower of London likely to appeal

the Bloody Tower. The story of

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SHORT SEBMON.

tionship to us and care for, us" that We live Our little lives in a great way. This world is beautiful in order to arrest us, make us think," to create reve- rence. It is not merely a place to work and sleep in. It is the appointed place where we are to A preacher tells how, long ago, mest God, to see Him, to fel Him

The Glory of God.

and which gives access to the Martineau writ a, "You tell me Outer Bail or Ward, one passes God is everlasting. Tell me of under the Middle Tower and some moment when He has been crosses a stono bridge over the with you. You say He is every- Dungeons to be opened to the.

where; show me some spot where Public.

In the Salt Tower, at the south-you have mot Him." These are From his place on the floor, the

Least angle, is a quaint drawing on questions we ought to put to our- Visitors to the Tower of Lon-the wall of the Zodias, the work selves: Is life a graver, nobler dog yelped and wagged his tail.

con will shortly be able to view of one Hugh Draper, of Bristol, thing for our thoughts of God's ́. "No-see? It wasn't

you fault,

some of the most interesting parts imprisoned there as a sorcerer in world? Has the earth become a Jackie, persuaded the girl.

of the historic fortress which have 1561. The Broad Arrow Tower temple? Have you ever felt that "See? They kept you out here "By gar, you well not!" he

so far been closed to the public, is next to the Constable's Tower you were a priest, bowing before yelled. "I want de 'ot coffee's too long. And see how you stay-

It was on April 3, 1875, that on the eastern side.

the dim altire of eternity, as you weall want de 'at coffee!" Hsed with the sheep in the blizzard!

These towers were used at var ought, from the things we see, to stood among the great trea? We So they looked ahead into the de oss! I preeck up do ear for and honourable-everybody will to visitor, and now, nearly 40ious times as prisons, and are have thoughts which expand into

ran for the door."Now-I ride Nobody else would!" It was brave the Tower was first thrown open (Continued from lust- Saturday,)

Up the contoes and round the gray distance, toward the dark de bowl of de sheep!

Madly slamming the door to Jackie-why, see-we can pay will for the first time be on view.

you the least bit easier, you know is made that the White Tower the inscriptions on the walls made of the Creator (and and His rela-

Dungeons and the Bloody Tower by prisoners. feet of the scattered lone buttes edges of the foot-bills, and talked. they drove. There was no road. But it had been after three a'clook behind him, and making many them for the sheep, can't we ?””””

The question of opening the By- but French George's pair of tough before they could get started uncouth wild gestures for the sako "I'm a star-gezer," he mutterward, Salt, and Board Arrow! little roan cayuses, hooked to the Away from the hosúe ranch, and of his ancient circulation, the old

that lowering eighth day of camp-tender drew his sheath- A star-gazer. I'll nevere Towers is under consideration, light camp-wagon, made

knife and began violently to" cut/make a man-a real mag-like but it is not yet possible to state tonishing head. The wise, wither. January drew to an early close.

When the soft night blackness the barnese from his off horse. my father," ed old camp-tender himself, loose-

not cold) became Then he clambered up on the "O Jackio!" she moaned. ly crouched at one side of the (for it, was

wagon-seat, absolutely impenetrable about snow-covered Inan back, and jam- Don't say that don't remember abeepskin-covered looked thoughtfully out noroes them, they stopped and made mel the pony's reluctant nose out that! You kill me! I didn't mean more strongly to sightseers than he was watching a dying saint, near. Life is no shabby game, of the range, forever leisurely smok. camp. After supper, eaten beside down wind into the storm. As it never meant it! You're the ing his pire, and now and than a little fire on which they boiled be disappeared, bowed over the bravest boy the bravest, strong the young Princes and their mure he was in his passing he said eating and working and waking talked to the girl. This old the water for ten, George spread horse's neck, the girl saw him est, man-in the world, Jackie der, which provided the atracture many things to him. Hnt one sleeping. This world is beauti Canadian George, who might some robes and blankets for the lift up the flap of his skin cap Your father died by sticking with its illsounding name, is one thing he said was a passion of ful enough and good enough for very well have Indian blood in girl in the bed of the wagon. His away from his ears, and strain his work-yes. But it was for which is known to every child, and appeal that was very solemn and us to be able to make it an him, still wore moccasing instead own bed roll be took out and laid his head out forward, in an effort money. You would have died at peculiar air of mystery has always very moving. He cried, as he Emmaus walk every day and all of civilized shoes; tending camp, on the ground somewhere near to distinguish, somewhere in that yours without anybody knowing attached to the closed tower.ifted one wan, white baad, "Oh, the days. in his decadener, on a Montana the picke ed horses.

vast, blurred, beautiful surround- of it-for honour!

From the upper window of the preach to the people about the The next morning, batimeaing white mulle, the cry of the "John Corvington star-gazer, sheap-ranch, he yet somehow be-

Bloody Tower access is obtained lory of God! Proach to the pea-

thern adventure. The girl briefly again." "There c.uld be no mis-belled at such puerilities. What He laughed." Yes you've found which Sr Walter Raleigh was that may be executed in a great | spoke the world of romasti No- they were traversing the enge pilgrim's sheep. Her heart re-ecornfully continued the pilgrim. to the Constable's Garden, iple about the glory of God!" It WORK Krut Inessage-a message

Privacy for the Millionaire. It looks, after all, as if publicity felt herself drawn toward him, taking the promise of snow now, sound could there be in that huge your level, John Corvington. allowed to take exercise.

Limany, wys. We may speak of for the multimillionaire depended lost all her isolated simidity and "Oh bi, yon!" called George suction of resistless silence? Her You're a born sheep-herder." He

A Globe representative was the lay of God's love, of His in large part on the man himself. constraint. She asked him of the to the lead pony, slashing at it ears heard only one sound-the paused and restlessly turned his informed to-day that some strae goodres, of His faithfulness, and t he wants the limelight, he can

head. "Only, you lose your ural alterations will be required to many other ways. pilgrim, and he, in his half with the oads of his lines." Heet thin song of death.

have it. If he seeks the alude, dreamy half-voluble French way, along, daire! He turned to the As, heavily and reluctantly, the sheep."

bofore the tower is opened. In There were two days and nights one part a rail will be necessary arrative of a traveller who wished York merchant died last month I read a story once. It was the that can be found, too. A New told her much.

girl. Eef we mak eet before de pony outside had borne the bur- "Ah, yass, mGABA, be paid, bleezzair, dese cagues weell 'ave den of George away into the of this. George grow desperate. to protect visitors.

to reuh the North Pole. In leaving an estate estimated Cat keed? Sure! l'ave always to 'ump.

storm, so jaside, heavily and "By gar!" he cried. "No

One of the most interesting-ome very high latitude, where, at $45,000,000. Although he lak dat keed. 'E ess do game He sent the tough little roane reluctantly, the girl bore the wondaire le ees not geet well. relics in this tower is the Axe of as you know, the Northern Lights had an immense and conspicuous lesitle ton, you bet you, an no long at the best paus he knew burden of her hopelessness about eas not eat anyt'eeng. Dere bear Office which was carried before are magnifitently brilliant, one establishment, the man himself meestak. But ah, she ave been how to get out of them and that with her in the room. The stove an' coffee an' sowbelly ees not de prisoner as he was brought from night he was called from hiss an individual was practically de bad long time for "eem out on kind of ground.

And they drew well, the wood was dry, and good shuck for de sazok man, bis trial. The Lieutenant of the berth by the captain of the ship.nknown. Scarcely a hundred de range,"

Accomplished wonders. But the the fire began to crackle and Wait."

Tower, watching through the "Come on deck at once! The paople, the obituaries state, knew He went out in the slackening loopholes in the walls of the world is on fire!" They stool him by sight. One may fairly "How?" cried the eager gil. lying snow whipped on faster emit a litet faint ray of warmth.

than he did, and came in sight She found the coffee-pot (it also storm, found a frozen wether, and Traitor's Gate, could see from gazing at the sight for hours, surmise, says the Chicago Record How do you mean? ''/

"Now we weell the way in which the axe and the description which that crald his shrewd pзrcap before the cabia and corral of the quite sweet and olean), and set brought it in. pilgrim's summer station. The water in it on the stove to boil. ave de fine lam' soup." he said. held whether the prisoner bal traveller has left us only shows tion that success and wealth are old Hudeon Bay camp-teuder, The movement and shelter and

George expertly made the soup,been acquitted or condemned.

that he, too, had seen unspeakable beat enjoyeri when the envy, de range, "he explained, howevor, felt no special alarm: breath of beat gradually took hold and the girl got the pilgrim to

Famous Collection. Out. I see eet, you do not savvy,

things, which it is not possible hatred, malice and all uncharit he knew be bai not more than a of her, making her cold-congealed swallow of it. Already his fever on de range, meessab, eet sea

desh sting and aohe exquisitely.

The White Tower, the central for a man to utter. Bat when ableness which commonly dog lonely. Daire ces not anyt'eeng mile or so to go.

Yet what a wind! In almost Seeing the patient, snow-mounded was on the wane, and that night and oldest portion of the fortress, the glory was dying away, he their steps are evaded; and ba

he alept without delirium. The -uot eeng at all but do sky, an': de groun, an' de 'oss an' de dog one great hound, the storm de- pony left standing in the wagon next morning he waked clear-eyed, containe the chapel of St. John, said to the captain, "This has evaded them.

one of the earliest, as well an one bean terribly beautiful," an' de dam'-fool sheep. Ah, bp, veloped its superb and terrible outside, she run, out and threw awith a yawn. The girl slipped of the most impressive specimens terribly beautiful," replied the eürnest Christian of Norman architecture in the captain, an George had made her, and stood kingdom and the famous collec. aanso terribly beautiful that

I pray and beseech God I tion of armour and ancient arms, "Edith !" he

marvelled. which is displayed in the Bar never see the like again! "Where-where am I?

queting Hall and Council Cham "Oh, we're somewhere in Mon-ber. Raleigh is said to have tons together," she laughed, pat-been confined in ose of the rooms ing her hands on his face. "But on the first floor during the time "Still he wrote his " History of the we're going home now, laughing, she bent her

only, you must marry me if dashed young face low over him. Nobody would speak to me, Maclure's

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George surveyed her with his philosophic old eyes, “Oat on

ger, I know ber! An all de fury.

“Oh, you frighten me" shuddered the girl. "How does he look? When did you see

him?"

Eet ees de las camp. meess does wethaire," George anbur- riedly reported."De keed 'ave tak de beeg chance cen etay so long. When deed I see beem? Maybe so set esa tree, four week scence I 'ave been daite."

"And how did be look?" persist-

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Athletics.

condition will not be allowed to exist much longer.

buffalo-roba over him. He was alaking borribly. Lime de dam'-fool sheep ers bawl, "You climb back ́een de wag-

Each moment life flowed back

Herr Karl Diem, the general an' de curlew an' keelldeer ees on, meess," Georgo cemmanried

secretary for the next Olympiad, cry out to you can'de evenin', an' the girl." Wrap de robe alleen through her arteries with a fuller.

has just been telling his country-" de coyote howl een de night. close roun' yon. "He wiped the more quickened force. The cabia's

Greatness of Nature. men how they compare with Yaag, I tell you datalie ées de joy cruat from his bush-browed one window happily looked down-

Have you ever felt the great Americans in the matter of sport. lonely plass!"

eyes. By gar, she enre ess de wind, and here she now stationed bleezzair all right, you bet you!" herself: The fire snapped and It was only by virtue of the in-roared; a pleasant odour of barn-

nese of Nature in that way? It is Herr Diem was recently in the wonderful thing to see God United States to investigate con- noving in the beauty or magnifi.ditions on the spot and he draws own World." tinct and intractable hardness of ing wood diffused itself about the room. Once she left the window

cence of Nature's panorama, to special attention to the lack of the range-bred horses that they

The White Tower itself has, of feel that this cannot but be the playing fields and athletic grounds. we last they pulled up in the lee wood in the stop. When she got

course, been open to the public world of such a God as we have in Germany, while their import- won through. And then, when to put more of the neatly piled

for many years, and among the revealed in the Scriptures. Such ace has long been realised on of the pilgrim's log cabin, they back to her outlook, a vague little

gruesome relics which are we is the beginning of all true the other side of the Atlantic. found the place uninhabited and cavalcade of two horses and a dog was just emerging from the edges

inspected by thousands are the religion. "Beauty stands upon for instance, in Chicago, whose AXO with which the Earl of the threshold of the mystical population is about equal to that For the first time since the blur. A desparate cry strangled of the great whirlinga atheasterly

Essex is said to have been be- world," saya Martineau, "and of Greater Berlin, the area of the satting in of the storm, the slim in her throat. Befor him, on the

beaded and the block at whichxcites curiosity about Gd." parke and playing grounda is and delicately nurtured young withers of a saddled horse, George

Lord Lovat knelt on Tower Hill Indeed, to the thoughtful it is one-disth of the built-over portion to receive the fatal stroke.

most difficult to get away from of the city. Berlin, on the other ed the girl. "How did he look ?" girl broke down. "I shall die carried the amorphous, flaccid

here too!" she wailed. "Ofigure of a man.

Arrangemente have practically

God in Nature. Everywhere there hand, has only the municipal "Well, de wildness-ab, eet Jackie, Jackie!-where are you?".

Tottering, she flew and opened been completed for the bolding of

The vaults now to be opened is order, coherence, law, that can-athletic grounds in Charlotten- an amateur billiard champion- was sure geet cento heen eye. George hustled her out of the the door. A hybrid collie dog. George laughed. "But, by gar, wagon into the cabin, Ges' joyfully barking and waving his ehip for Shanghai. In the mean were formerly used as prisons not bo explained without God.burg. As the Germans are leav time a committee is being formed and torture chambers, Here the In summer time all things are ing no stone unturned to excel in de fine, long beard 'e cea grow, een!" be cried. "Climb con- snowy brush, jumped in. On the to the competition, and it is rack was freely employed, and so beautiful that the earth seems the Olympic games, there can be too-lak de seelk on de Eenjonido!"

strange saddled pony, George nderstood that entries have been the holes in which the instrument an emerald ball, floating in a sea po little doubt that this backward oorn!" Quickly he sobered again. "Oh hi-yi, de crazy keed! "The rough interior of the little followed with his load.

"Hey, I geet heen all right!" promised from nearly all the lead-was fitted still exit under the of amethyst and silver.

boarding of the floor. When the De crazy keed, de crazy keed!" log hat wae in immaculate order.

beautiful Anno Askew was tacked, Wood lay in the stove, ready for he cheerfully sang out to her. 10g players of the Settlement. "Why? demanded the girl. lighting, and George fambled E ees bout all froze up'e ees

the Lord Chancellor of the day "Daire 'e was steeok heemself about with matches and his not dress for de col'. Bat we

bimself gave a turn of the screw. ont geox month on de summaire stiffened fingers till he had got a weell breeng heam moun' een one,

Tradition states that Sir Walter range," said George," an not fire started. Then he caught hold two mesnate, you

bet

Raleigh was confined in a cell even de book an' de papiere to of the girl, who stood white and She sprang out and peered at

here for twelve years; while in

of the P. and O. strike, the E. and read cen! No, saire ; 'e deed not stony, staring at the room, and the drooping face, pallid, bearded,

the prison, well-named "Little Looked at, Nature speaks back. C. Express says:The directors even lave de lettaire or de alma- began feverishly to chafe ber streaked and incrusted with snow

Dake Kung Sing-yi, a direct Ease," Guy Fawkes was racked A bealthy mind easily and 18 of the P. and O. Co, are to be bande. 'nac 1

and ice. "O Jackie, Jackie! descendent of Confucius, has until he confessed.

turally rises from Nature to congratulated upon having sub- "You took him out something?" "Now, you leesten!" he order she called.

come to Poking at the request of It will be realised that before Natures God. "I always pray stantially the met demands of she besought.

ed. You steeck her out, an' George smiled complacently may be so she ecseteell all right!" the three long days and night, the President in sum of objects of these dungeons are thrown open when I come to the Alps," said their officers who might reasonab What shall I do?" she asked that unparalleled storm flang its the President in summoning him to the public stops have to be Ruskin. "Have you ever heardly expect to be treated at least as away across the range. Yaas, I

magnificence and rigors against to Peking is to improve the taken to facilitate egress as well of God?" asked George Borrow, well as the officers in the service tak heem out-I geove heem blankly,

the walls of the little log hut. design of ceremonial dress. Dake as entrance. As an attendant of a poor, ignorant goatherd of of other greatshipping companies. somet'ceng. I geeve heem may-

de coffee-boil de Inside, on his bank, the pilgrim Kung brought with him several said, "It's easy enough to get the Spanish mountains. Bis only The navigating officers of great beso de varrie bes' book een de coffee!" He gave up the chaling rambled deliriously on about the suite of ceremonial dress worn by people in, but the trouble is to reply was to cast a reverent look liners have immense responsibility worl'. I

geeve been, by, gar, my and dragged her about the room loss of four thousand Pigoys those who took part in the of Al get them out again at the glowing sunset and walk grounds it is desirable that show ol' 'Robeénson Crusoe'!

ing of sacrifice to Confucius. On January 24, 1885, the softly away.

should have no subtantial canse of the suits are very old, some of White Tower was the scene of the

Question for all. "Ah" breathed the girl."long plank shelf against the wall

for dissatisfaction with the re "he them being worn during the dynamite explosion for which "All gone, all gone, never read it-that."

Is there any spot on earth no-muneration and their opportuns Vere bet nes! He 'em, Aleo! No, he can't-there has asked Duke Kung to fix upon afterwards sentenced to peaal because you looked at it so to be exported that the P. and 0. when de keed tell you." angely brust the can into her bands. they go-all gone!"

a dignified design of the cerem-servitude for life. The explosion commented George. "I hope 'e You msk de coffee! I weell go "O Jackie!" pleaded the girl, onial dress. An official has been occurred at two o'clock in the ees not let de equirrel an' de look for beein!"

kneeling beside him on the floor, appointed to assist Dake Kung afternoon and sixteen visitors mountain-rat chew her all up."

"don't think of the sheep!," in the task. Duke Kang will were injured.

"Bahchimed in French take the design selected by the George pointed about the room. Thoughtfully

E feex de bed-a' waak de George, from the other side of the National Council last year and Dat modify it in the light of the deesh—'e was 'ere dees morneeng! bed, snapping his fingern;

ancient style.

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Descendent of Confucius' In Peking

"Daisies are white upon the

churchyard sod.. Sweet tears, the clouds lean

down and give. The world in very lonely. O my God, I thank Thee that I live!"

The P, and 0. Settlement. Commenting on the settlement

they

"It'eerk you weell read her powder can with ground coffee in mourned. "There they go bold Ming dynasty. The President Canningham and Barton were red to you because of it memories, ities of promotion. It was only

ave not read her all yet myself- not de las part.

he smiled out across the range

She sure eas de gran' stuff- dat el' book,

"Where?" she demanded.

E ces gest kotoŭ out cea de for de dam' fool sheep

thoughtfully that you saw God's Co., with its great traditions and name written there? The chair ita prosperity, would meet itt in your room, is it only need to sit officers in a generoas spirit, bu- upon, never to kusel before? it is, to say the least, unfortunate Byward Tower, t That lane, that tree, that field, that the difficulties which have To reach the Byward Tower, that church, have they their hie now been settled were ever allowed which is at the south-west corner, sary in relation to yourself? Dr. to come before the public notice.