but were at length brought to re-' and while the soldiers were debating liza tie intense gravity of their whether they should murder the position, and the little party set] three or not, the two foreigners pro out, main body went ahead, ceeded to get the invalid lady with the two gentlemen alrewiy) board the sampan. When they had Ientioned coming up in the rent done this, they made a sudden dash with the sick lady. Tue party was] for it, floundering thieugh heavy lucky in obtaining cooties to carry and evil smelling mud up to their the baggage and' the chair.
The] knees" jumping toto, the samper, cooilen took the risk owing to te] pushing the sampan man aside aod darkness, und they now carried the taking the paddies themselves. Snvalid lady in an ordinary ebwlr. with feverish haste they pushed The party wended its way in te [Jeqving. their enraged persecu darkness through narrow Chiness yar he bark to' beet bricks aad Streets and failed. to. altroct rouchl onyee agrer them te the dark One attention until they reached the] of the bricks struck the lady, bus dank of the crock, where they m, the rest plopped harmlessly: into th: into a large crowd of soldiers whol water ov fell Into the sampan with. were omusireg themselves by walk-out doing any damage. Fortunatsly ing up and down singing and yelli"e the goldiers had no firearms, thou the tops of their voices.
The they could not have made very good tongs they were singing were of 0! shooting in the darkness nationalistic wzd "patrioti US. Naval Men to the Rereue This little band of he their singing to indulge in the sua The party arrived on the Ca sia Shaved ty proceed Hale die outwitting tke soldiers|o oda Title fy, and atill hoping for the best. They were not left Tong ut how: anil cavally UIs! ever, for another patrol of soldiers stopped them on this of the Lact and Pa creek with the questions, "Who are you") "What is all this stut?
'This second band allowed the first) "Where are you going and why? party through but icterfe Have you got much property' the two men and the invalid, Once again the rear members of the laid hands on the men and wrenched! party were the unlucky ones, and aay their suitcases.
After tsi] the soldiers gattered round them they indulged in an orgy of cross) threatonirgly und adopted tke usual ucaiions as to ho the party were, bullying attitude which the party'
re they were going and so forth; had by now learned to expect from ant xo on, and fil Once again th whether they would let them thro or not, Inthe meantime one of the! tercede, and cree again with two for reluctance ko so, The officer the party in front, azd the soldier charge was invited to escort came buck, and very reluc them to the American naval launch ntly, commenced to arbitrate. we their story, but 2 good deal of "wallah wallah" it, the only persuasion which had' was suggested that the patriotic! effect was the usual one of mone; Feelings ut the soldiers might be and a payment of $10 was made Jassunged by a emall payment of, Once they had pocketed the cash, $50, and the party then allowed to! however, tke patriotic instincts of pose. In the meantime, whilst li, the soldiers revived once more and this talking wa the they became icereasingly aggressly foreigners had an One of the male members of the the whole party thu managed slip to the bank of the creek, and wilt, quietly away, and when he was out the soldiers were busy diseussinx) of side of the group he ran for all financial matters some of the party! he was worth to Jardine's hulk secured a sampan man to take t-cial where he got hold of the American over for one dollar per person,—a\ naval men and appealed to them distance 15. yards.
Some of come to the rescue.
This they did, eross safely without ting notice, at the sight of uniformed but the unfortunate two plus foreigners the military gave way! invalid lady were lett sti and allowed the party to proceed. 'The soldier escort then sure At the time.a very heavy swell that perhaps $20 would sce them was running of the river, and the' through, but jo the meantime the party were ordered to put on lif Cantonese were growing angrier, belts, which they did. The Munch. and angrier, and one man pulled out, then' took them out to the C. a vicious looking knife ad oriel Shengking, the passage across p: "Sa to mex", or "Come, let us kill ing a hectic anti-climax to th them".
One of his colleagues of a adventures ashore by reason of more cautious nature replied "Teu roughness of the water. th ha ti" or "wait a minute," and) board the steamer, Zowever, continued the negotiations.
At received nothing but the kindest tig functare the sampan returned,' treatment, The Shengking is 8 passengers. On' this occasion she carried 50, all refugees from Yanzize ports, and every inch of space was utilized.
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