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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, In Macao, by Charles A. Gunnison
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+Title: In Macao
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+Author: Charles A. Gunnison
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN MACAO***
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+IN MACAO.
+
+by
+
+CHARLES A. GUNNISON.
+
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+Press of
+Commercial Publishing Co.
+34 California St., S.F.
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+_FRAU JULIE FISCHER._
+
+_geb. von Seckendorff-Gutend._
+
+
+_Die beifolgenden, widme ich Ihnen, als Beweis in welch' unvergesslicher
+Erinnerung, die von mir in Beyern verlebte Zeit, gehalten wird, und
+besonders die unvergleichlichen Tage welche ich im Rothem Schloss zu
+Obernzeen zubringen durfte, Tage welche zu den schoensten meines Lebens
+zaehlten, und nie aus meinem Herzen verwischt werden koennen._
+
+                                                _Charles A. Gunnison._
+
+_San Francisco, Cal., Xmas, 1892._
+
+
+
+
+California.
+
+
+     This is thy form, dear, native home of mine,--
+     A gold-net hammock swung from palm to pine,
+     Moved by the breezes of the peaceful sea,
+     And in the net, smiling so drowsily,
+     My mother California, queen divine,
+     Rests, while the poppy garlands her entwine.
+
+     In her warm arms, 'neath cloudless summer skies,
+     As child I heard her bee-hummed lullabies,
+     Saw her red malvas, blue nemophylæ,
+     Pink manzanitas, deep-hued laurel tree,
+     And what were marvels to my childish eyes,
+     Her mariposas, (tethered butterflies).
+
+     What of the rich and wondrous foreign things
+     Which each new tide to her in tribute brings!
+     Although from olive, orange, fig, and vine,
+     Her own fond children all their wealth consign,
+     'Tis Flora's gifts my royal mother sings,
+     As, joined to palm and pine, her hammock swings.
+
+
+
+
+In Macao.
+
+_A Story from the "Grasshopper's Library."_
+
+
+I was seated one pleasant day in the garden, which was given to the city
+of Macao by the Marcos family, near the grotto sacred to the poet
+Camoens, when a Portuguese priest came from among the wilderness of
+flowers and sat beside me. He spoke English with a pleasant accent and
+we read Bowring's effusion together, as it is engraved on the marble
+slab nearby. Scarcely had we finished, and the father was telling me of
+Goa in India, when my uncle Robert came from beneath the great banyan
+tree and stood before us. The father jumped to his feet, and throwing
+back his brown robe, rushed forward toward my uncle with a stilletto
+held ready for an upward stroke. Quickly my uncle drew a revolver and
+fired--and the father fell dead at my feet.
+
+
+I
+
+To those who have been in Southern Europe and have seen the towns along
+the Riviera, the first view of Macao, as the steamboat approaches from
+Hong Kong, gives the impression of having been suddenly transported to
+the sunny Mediterranean. Were it not for the colour of the water, and
+the Chinese junks, Macao would indeed be a perfect representation of any
+of those lovely spots, as she lies along her crescent bay, from Mount
+Nillau to Mount Charil, defended by the frowning forts of Sam Francisco
+and Our Lady of Bom Parto. Beautiful as this picture is, it was doubly
+so in the brilliant sunset colouring of a certain March day, as the
+steamer slowly came to her wharf and the passengers stepped ashore
+beneath the blue and white flag of Portugal, in this, her farthest
+eastern possession. The houses with their delicate washings of pink,
+blue, yellow or green, with white stucco ornaments, now golden in the
+light, had a warmth of colouring well set off by the dark foliage of
+camphor and banyan trees showing above the garden walls. The few
+passengers soon dispersed, in chairs or on foot, leaving but one of
+their number upon the wharf. He was apparently expecting some one to
+come for him, for he refused all offers of assistance from the coolies
+and seated himself just outside the gate. American, of medium height,
+brown haired and tanned by a tropical sun, Robert Adams was as good a
+specimen of Anglo Saxon youth as England herself could boast of. He was
+the last descendant of a New England family, which had preserved its
+purity for three centuries as unmixed with continental blood as though
+the three centuries had been passed in the quiet vales of Devon, instead
+of in the New World with its broken barriers.
+
+For three years, after a successful college course, he had been in the
+only shipping house in Hong Kong which sickly American commerce of the
+day was able to support in the once flourishing China trade. A small
+fortune and a good salary, a constitution which even an Eastern summer
+could not break down, and above all, the heart of the girl he loved,
+were surely possessions which any king might envy him. Presently a neat
+bamboo chair borne by three liveried coolies came at a trot down the
+street, and being placed before this last of the passengers, carried him
+away into the darkness which, with the suddenness of the tropics, had
+fallen upon the city. The stillness was broken only by the noise of
+escaping steam from the boat and the regular patter of the barefooted
+chair carriers. When the chair had disappeared up the narrow, winding
+street, a Portuguese wrapped in a black cloak came from behind a wall,
+then by another way walked rapidly over the hill and down the other
+side to the Praya, arriving in front of one of the largest houses on
+that most beautiful promenade just as the coolies put down their burden.
+
+The oil lamps along the Praya had been lighted, stretching out to the
+Estrada Sam Francisco, where the bright windows in the hospital of Sam
+Januarius seemed to be the lake of lights into which this long stream
+flowed. No one was abroad, no steps sounded along the pavement except
+those of the sentry as he walked, and _smoked_, before the neighbouring
+residence of the Governor. Death at night and sleep in the day time are
+the characteristics of Macao. No one seems to work, play, sing, dance or
+even read unless the latter indeed may be done in what Alphonse Daudet
+calls _la Bibliotheque des cigales_.
+
+As Robert Adams stepped from the chair, the Portuguese came forward with
+outstretched hand saying: "What is the news Dom Robert in Hong Kong?"
+"Oh, Dom Pedro, you came out so suddenly I thought I was attacked. No
+news, unless it is that the rector of St. John's is to join me to the
+loveliest girl in Macao or the world, in just three weeks." "I hope you
+won't disappoint him Dom Robert, you came very near doing so to-night,"
+said Pedro de Amaral with a laugh. "How, pray?" asked Adams as they
+entered the now unbarred gate. "You were within three feet of the water,
+if you had fallen in, that would have disappointed him. Not? Three feet
+is near. Not?" "Yes, and the boiler might have burst," replied Adams
+laughing. "Or more improbable yet the Portuguese government might have
+revived Macao, which would kill me with astonishment my dear Amaral."
+
+Having entered the house he was followed by Dom Pedro, who bent upon him
+such a look of hatred as only the eyes of Latin races can give. The
+Portuguese turned to the right to his own apartments and Adams following
+a servant to the left, was soon in the dimly lighted library of Dom Luiz
+de Amaral the father of Dom Pedro. There were not many books on the
+shelves but a superb collection of Oriental swords and knives was
+arranged in the cases from which the shelves had been taken. Two old
+engravings, one of the poet Camoens and the other of Catarina de Atayde,
+his beloved, who died of grief at his banishment, hung on the wall; the
+rest of the furnishings was of that cosmopolitan character which is sure
+to collect in the home of a European resident in the far East.
+
+"Can't you see me Robert?" said a laughing voice of great sweetness from
+a corner of the study. "One would think that both your eyes had met the
+same fate that the right one of poor Camoens did in Morocco." "My
+darling Priscilla how could I see you ten feet away from the light? You
+know olive oil don't give the brightest illumination. But its enough
+though." "Don't!" "Just one," and then a sound not unknown to many of us
+put a stop to the conversation. "Shall I leave the room children?" came
+in merry tones from another corner and immediately an old lady came
+forward giving both hands to him. "That miserable oil of Dom Amaral's
+has put me into a pretty mess," said Adams half annoyed, but laughing as
+he greeted the lady. "Don't berate me before my face dear friend about
+my light, especially when you are so soon to take our brightest light
+away from us." "Fairly trapped, Dom Amaral," cried Adams laughing
+heartily at this third interruption. "And here is Dom Pedro dressed for
+dinner," he continued as the younger Amaral entered the room. "I'll be
+with you presently and have my eyes toned down to your Macao standard."
+
+Being so constant a visitor, Robert Adams had his own rooms at Dom
+Amaral's, where he found his bags unpacked and the clothes laid out by
+those deftest of servants, the Chinese. According to custom the dinner
+of Macao was served at the late hour of nine.
+
+Dom Luiz Diego de Amaral was one of the wealthiest Portuguese in the
+city, having, unlike most of his fellow citizens, investments abroad
+which brought him a considerable income after the birth of Hong Kong
+killed Macao and left it a city of the past, of poverty and pride.
+Having in his youth married a Spanish woman who bore him one son, Pedro,
+he was left a widower before the age of twenty-five.
+
+Some years after, being in Boston where he then had large shipping
+interests, he took a second wife, Priscilla Harvey, and returned to
+Macao. Madam de Amaral's only sister, wife of Captain Fernald had one
+child which was left an orphan at an early age by the drowning of both
+parents in Portsmouth harbour.
+
+This orphan, Priscilla Fernald, was taken to her aunt in China and
+became a member of the household of Dom Amaral. It was a strange
+transplanting for such a flower from the cold coast of Puritan New
+England to the tropical, Roman Catholic colony in the heart of
+heathendom. But the flower of so sturdy a stock remained true. It was
+long accepted by all, even by the maiden Priscilla, that young Amaral
+was to be her husband though nothing had been said on the subject.
+Later, the small circle of Macao society, of which poverty and pride
+were the ruling features, became too dull for the young girl and her
+foster parents took her often to Hong Kong where she met with those of
+the outer world.
+
+In that hospitable society of the "city of the fragrant streams," where
+the dinner table seems to be the only rendezvous, save a garden party
+now and then, a Tarrantella dance or a Government House ball, the fair
+Priscilla met young Robert Adams, a native of her far away and almost
+unknown home. The acquaintance blossomed into friendship and ripened
+into love. The lover was accepted, and now a courtship of two years was
+in three weeks to see them married. There were many disappointed youths
+and envious of Robert Adams, but all took their misfortune as in the way
+of the world, except young Amaral, who, in silence, had watched the
+course of events and now hated the happy suitor with all the fierceness
+of his Southern blood.
+
+That night Robert Adams, unlike the conventional lover, but like a
+healthy, light-hearted fellow, fell asleep without a sigh, listening to
+the waves as they broke regularly on the stone embankment before his
+window. In the room below, Dom Pedro walked until the early morning, no
+beating of waves could lull him to sleep, for his head ached and his
+eyes burned in the fever of jealousy. Thus he brooded over his loss till
+the sun gilded the hermitage fort of Our Lady of Guia.
+
+
+II.
+
+The following day was Sunday, the liveliest, or rather the only day with
+any life at all, in Macao, for the visitors from Hong Kong then go about
+the city sight seeing to be ready for the early return of the steamboat
+on Monday morning.
+
+A pleasant spot, and one not often molested by visitors on account of
+the somewhat toilsome climb required to reach it, is the church of Our
+Lady of Pehna on the summit of Mt. Nillau. Built in 1622 on this high
+point to be more easily protected from any possible invasion of the
+Chinese from the main island of Heang Shang, the church serves now only
+as an addition to the picturesqueness of Macao, and though repaired in
+1837 is again in ruin. Priscilla and her affianced chose this for their
+Sabbath walk, for it is only through nature that the Protestants in
+Macao can worship nature's God, and surely the incense of flowers could
+bear to Him on high the thanksgiving of those two happy hearts, as truly
+as the frankincense and myrrh which the good Fathers of the last century
+burnt upon Mt. Nillau. The narrow but well paved streets with their
+stuccoed houses, barred windows and little peep-holes at the doors, for
+questioning the doubtful applicants for admission, even the two months
+old posters of Chiarini's circus had a new charm this Sunday morning;
+for Adams it was a day of quiet after his week of noise and bustle in
+Hong Kong, while for Priscilla it seemed a gala day full of life after
+the six silent days of sleepy monotony. "I can see that Pedro is not
+friendly toward you Robert," she said; "I could hear him walking during
+all the night and am sure he is planning something to annoy you, I know
+his ways so well." "Don't worry, Priscilla, Dom Pedro was probably
+troubled over some loss at the fan-tan table; they say he won five
+hundred Mexicans last week and then lost that sum doubled."
+
+"That may be so, Robert, but our approaching marriage is a great cross
+to him. It is hard to tell what Pedro's thoughts are; his eyes are like
+our Macao windows of isinglass and let very little light either way."
+
+The winding road between ruined walls of gray stone, half covered with
+clinging ficus, spanned by broken arches, with here and there a fallen
+urn, led them through picturesque turns and by mossy steps to the foot
+of the huge black cross erected before the empty church. Neither spoke;
+they did not care for words and the only expression which framed itself
+audibly was that oft repeated _jubilate_ of health and youth, "How
+beautiful it is to live!"
+
+Dim in the distance, of almost the same shade as the sky, rose the
+White Cloud Hills; lesser hills more distinct in waving outline lay
+before them; then rocky promontories and islands with grotesque forms
+like the twisted dragons of Chinese embroideries, and the low stretch
+which marked the position of the wonderful city of Canton. On the yellow
+water here and there were junks with tanned sails and gay banners;
+islands with graceful pagodas were seen, and the huge white cathedral of
+the near dependency of Taipa. Then in the foreground at their very feet
+was Macao, a feast of colour, red roofs, many-hued walls, green trees
+and brilliant gardens, beautiful as the jewel-set sheath of a Venetian
+dagger, with its poison and death-dealing wickedness hidden.
+
+Dom Amaral with his wife had gone to the new cathedral to services;
+their well appointed chairs had scarcely left the court and the gates
+been bolted behind them when Dom Pedro came from his room. His face had
+changed greatly since the day before; the loss of sleep and the
+bitterness of his heart had made him look pale and thin. For the first
+time in his life he had spoken harshly to his valet, and that meek
+Celestial wore an expression of grief and surprise, for Pedro Amaral,
+whatever his faults, did not have the vulgar one of venting his spleen
+upon his inferiors, so that his lifelong servant was at a loss to
+account for the sudden change.
+
+Dom Pedro walked to the library and drawing the curtains behind him sat
+down before the cases filled with brilliant steel. Suddenly he looked
+away and picked up a book from the table, opening it at random but
+constantly his eyes reverted to the cases before him. Slowly his
+features relaxed and with a broken sigh he was about to replace the book
+when a small photograph card fell from its pages; the face was that of
+Robert Adams, the book Priscilla's "Common Prayer." Like a flash the old
+lines came back in his forehead; he went to the case and opening the
+glass doors, carefully took down a small, silver sheath, the work of
+some artist of Goa, wherein the influence of both India and Europe
+showed in the execution. The pressure of a button pushed out a grooved
+dagger which fitted so low in the sheath as to show only the head of its
+jeweled hilt. Dom Pedro removed the dagger, wrapped it in his
+handkerchief and then putting it in his breast pocket replaced the empty
+sheath in its old position.
+
+
+III.
+
+The government of Macao derives its greatest revenue from the licensing
+of gambling houses, and these form one of the principal attractions in
+the city to the European from Hong Kong as well as the native
+Portuguese and Chinese. Whatever fault the visitor finds, on moral
+grounds, with these houses he must admit the fact that they are quiet
+and orderly, while the picturesqueness of the life within them and that
+peculiar glamour which varnishes all that pertains to a great gambling
+hall where fortune shows herself directly face to face with us, has a
+charm which hides the immorality from even the most straight-laced
+Puritan.
+
+One of these houses was the favourite and nightly resort of Dom Pedro,
+where he played high or low according to the state of his finances at
+the moment. Dom Amaral, though himself a devotee of the fan-tan table,
+observed with fear this controlling passion of his son which he believed
+would some day destroy the comfortable fortune he had amassed with so
+many years of labour.
+
+Adams would have certainly preferred to spend the whole evening in the
+family circle, but Dom Pedro urged him with so much, and such unusual
+kindness to accompany him to the gambling house that he consented, and
+at about eleven o'clock the two young men left the Praya and walked into
+the town beneath the soft lights of the oil lamps. The streets were
+deserted as usual, here and there a policeman, hooded like a pilgrim,
+sauntered leisurely along, or the Chinese watchman with drum and
+clapper woke the echoes of the lonely ways warning thieves of his
+approach.
+
+The only illuminated houses were fan-tan houses and these presently
+became numerous; now and then music was heard but not of a very
+seductive kind. Into one of the largest and most gaily decorated houses,
+Dom Pedro and Robert Adams went, climbing to the second floor by stairs
+bordered with shrubs in huge Chinese pots.
+
+The main playing room contained several tables or counters arranged
+along the walls, behind which sat the croupiers; at one of these Dom
+Pedro stopped. On the table was a plate of metal divided into quarters
+of about a foot square by deep cut lines crossing it, each square being
+marked in Chinese characters indicating one, two, three and four. The
+croupiers rattled a pile of bright brass coins, with square holes in
+them, called cash; then as Dom Pedro made a sign that he was about to
+play, the croupier drew away a part of them under a bowl and Dom Pedro
+placed his wager on number three. The croupier with a bamboo wand then
+counted out the remaining cash one at a time in sets of four, until
+finally there were but three left; this being Dom Pedro's number, he won
+the stakes.
+
+"In good luck to-night," he said, turning to Adams, "Try if this is a
+lucky day for you." Robert Adams placed his money on the same square
+which Dom Pedro had won from, and again the croupier counted the
+remainder slowly, having drawn away some of the cash under the bowl,
+four at a time until but two remained and Adams' stake became part of
+the bank. "Lucky in love, unlucky at play" he said with a laugh, "I
+shall bet no more to-night." Dom Pedro's face darkened but in silence he
+continued winning at every count.
+
+Above the table was a square hole in the ceiling opening into an upper
+room where those could sit who did not wish to be seen, and were thus
+able to let their bets down in a little basket and with the same draw up
+their winnings. This upper room being purposely kept in half light
+enabled its occupants to see those below without being seen themselves.
+
+Dom Pedro's luck was astonishing and quite a crowd of onlookers gathered
+about. Robert Adams growing weary of the play in which he took no
+interest, left, saying that he would walk slowly as far as the ruined
+cathedral of St. Paul and on his return step in again. As he stepped
+back from the table he looked up toward the opening in the ceiling where
+were two women with faces wrapped in black silk robosas, which showed
+only the eyes; as the eyes seemed fixed upon him he raised his hat. The
+action seemed to cause the women considerable consternation, for both
+hurriedly sprang back from the rail and in doing so one let fall, upon
+the table below, the basket with a bit of paper and several Mexican
+dollars which rolled about the room. Everyone looked up laughing at the
+accident but no one from above claimed the money. Adams left the room
+glad to be in the fresh air under the clear, starlit sky.
+
+No more lonely or picturesque ruin ever existed than the church of St.
+Paul; though human habitations crowd close upon it, they are however the
+houses of Chinese and make the Christian edifice seem the more solitary.
+The church is of that favourite style of architecture so common in new
+and old Spain, which always brings to the mind of the wanderer in
+foreign lands the name of good San Xavier.
+
+The half moon had risen high enough to illuminate the whole front as
+Adams climbed the broad, massive steps to the paved space before it.
+Leaning against the heavy balustrade he enjoyed the picture. The shadows
+were deep and through the sightless windows shone a few silver stars.
+The magnificent front of solid granite with graceful scroll-work and
+carved outline, blackened here by smoke and there by age, with vines and
+trees growing from crevices, stood in wondrous beauty.
+
+The detail showed clearer than by day; the panels in high relief, of
+full rigged ship, the double dolphin and the skeleton seemed too fragile
+to have stood through earthquake and typhoon and the conflagrations of
+war for more than two hundred years. The exquisite frieze composed of
+many unconventionalized flowers extending across the front, wherein the
+artist and worker had been one, was a petrified garland. This scene was
+a revelation to Adams for often as he had viewed and sketched the ruin,
+he had never been there by moonlight when its beauties were enhanced and
+its defects hidden. He could see plainly each Chinese character upon the
+carved scrolls and the words "Mater Dei" above the doorway.
+
+Slowly the shadows crept along, making the six broken saints in their
+niches seem alive; slowly the shadows upon the ruin crept along, but a
+swifter shadow suddenly came forward from the steps and Adams having
+forgotten, in the entrancing scene the murderer and thief who lurk in
+all Macao's corners, turned as he heard a soft step, just in time to
+receive in his right arm the upward blow of a dagger aimed at his side.
+He lost his balance falling backward down the steps, striking his head
+upon a heap of broken roof-tiles where he lay insensible. As he fell, a
+woman's scream pierced the night. There was hurried tramping of sandaled
+feet, as of a dozen or more coolies. The shriek was again heard and
+then all was silent and the plaza empty.
+
+
+IV
+
+Sleepy Macao the day after the attempted assassination of Robert Adams
+was treated to a sensation such as had not been its experience since the
+memorable day in 1848 when the old Governor de Amaral lost his head at
+the Porta de Cerco. Murder, attempted or accomplished, could not have
+stirred them up to such an extent, for that was too common an
+occurrence, but the mystery of the event was the cause. Priscilla Harvey
+and her maid with one of Dom Amaral's most trusted men servants had
+disappeared as completely as though the earth had swallowed them.
+
+Robert Adams, since the night of the attack had not recovered his
+senses, and lay in the house of Dom Amaral apparently between life and
+death. The surgeons from Sam Januarius hospital had decided that to save
+him, the amputation of his arm would be necessary, for the dagger which
+had cut it had been poisoned.
+
+In the midst of this trouble, Priscilla's absence was discovered, and
+Macao was alarmed. Men were sent from the Governor's house in all
+directions to search the public houses, the fishing boats, and every
+possible place within the small territory. Word was sent to Taipa. While
+the officials were thus employed, private parties of searchers went over
+the entire peninsula looking among the rocks and copses of the Estrada
+and even the Parsee Tower of Silence was examined, but all in vain. The
+fan-tan house proprietor told of two unknown women with a Chinese
+servant who had visited his house, but when they had left he did not
+know. No more was learned though the search still continued, for large
+rewards were offered by Dom Amaral as well as by the Governor.
+
+Dom Pedro directed the movements, taking greatest interest in all that
+seemed possible to form a clue, and did not rest for nearly forty-eight
+hours. Days soon formed a week but no news came, and Macao began to
+drowze again. Detectives from Hong Kong came, made the usual fuss and
+reached the usual conclusions of their kind, that it was a mysterious
+event.
+
+Contrary to all predictions Robert Adams, having become convalescent and
+the surgical operation by which he had lost his arm having proved
+successful when having heard the awful news, did not have a relapse into
+the fever but seemed with a determination to become more rapidly strong,
+and in five weeks was able to be about. He, of all Priscilla's friends,
+was most hopeful. To his mind vividly came the scene at the Ruins of
+St. Paul and that last sound he had heard. Adams' first walk was to the
+scene of his attempted assassination and Madam de Amaral, who was much
+broken with grief at the terrible event, accompanied him in her chair,
+Dom Pedro going with them.
+
+It was the month of May and the heat being oppressive Madam d'Amaral
+after viewing the scene was carried home and the two young men walked on
+to the Marcos garden. "I have a clue Dom Robert," said Dom Pedro as they
+seated themselves beneath a broad banyan tree from which a view of St.
+Paul's ruin could be had. "There began your troubles," he said pointing,
+"and there this morning I received a paper which will I hope lead to a
+solution of this mystery." He handed Adams a bit of Chinese paper on
+which was written in Portuguese, "Come to the Praca de Luiz de Camoens
+at 8 A.M. to-morrow; follow the guide who meets you, and the lady
+Priscilla will be found." "I do not trust anonymous communications,"
+said Adams, "but we must clutch at a straw now." "Nor do I," replied Dom
+Pedro, "and I will go with you; we will go well armed." Adams glanced
+down at his own empty sleeve and a cruel smile passed over the face of
+Dom Pedro as he noticed his comrade's pain.
+
+The 22nd of May will be long remembered in Macao and never forgotten by
+the family of de Amaral. Early in the morning Robert Adams was up and
+impatiently waiting for Dom Pedro, who appeared a little before eight
+o'clock and the two, after a hurried breakfast, went to the Praca de
+Luiz de Camoens where a Chinese sailor met them. They followed him to
+the shore where a sampan was waiting in which they seated themselves and
+were soon gliding rapidly toward a huge junk of fine build which lay at
+anchor some distance beyond the Portuguese man-of-war, in the direction
+of Taipa. The tide was very low and the vessel did not seem far from
+shore.
+
+The Sampan reached and made fast to the junk, and Adams followed by Dom
+Pedro climbed upon the deck.
+
+Quick as a flash Adams' arm was seized and bound to his side while Dom
+Pedro stepped before him. "Fool!" he cried, "you have stepped into the
+trap with little trouble. It was I who stabbed you, Dom Robert, it was
+I, who took the bride who rightfully belonged to me, as it is I who will
+use you for my own good till I may throw you away. You of Northern blood
+are fools."
+
+"I thought you my friend, Dom Pedro, and I thought you a man," was the
+only reply.
+
+Every appointment of the junk was of exquisite finish, such as is
+seldom seen, and kept scrupulously clean. The men at work on deck, with
+usual Mongolian nonchalance, went about their business without giving
+the least notice to the events occurring. "The lady Priscilla waits you
+in the cabin," said Dom Pedro. "She knows my plans and though I shall
+not intrude upon you I have a Chinese on guard who will kill you if any
+attempt is made to free you. Enter." Adams stepped toward the cabin at
+the stern, where the usual shelf-like arrangements of a junk had been
+transformed into a cabin suited to European taste, with comfort and
+luxury. Adams entered and the door was closed. By it stood a guard with
+drawn sword; in the farther corner sat a woman at a table with her face
+buried in her hands.
+
+"Robert, as you love me stay where you are. Do not move a step, but sit
+down where you are." Her voice was so full of pleading that Adams forgot
+his first impulse and obeyed her. "I know all that has occurred dear
+Robert, your sacrifice and pain and the pain of all my friends during
+these sad weeks. Do not move toward me or you will be killed. I will not
+look up, dare not look up. On that Sunday, which now seems so long ago,
+when I bid you good-night at the library door, when you and he went to
+the fan-tan house, I followed you with his valet and my maid, for I had
+been fearful of his intentions toward you, and when his valet told me
+that he had seen him secrete a dagger in his coat that morning, and when
+I found one missing from the case, I had my fears confirmed. We followed
+and sat in the floor above you and tried to call your attention. When I
+won at the table at last I put in a warning note and then overturned the
+basket. You did not see the paper but he did, and read it. For the rest,
+you were followed at once by him, and we as quickly as possible followed
+both, but only in time to see you fall and to be seized and carried away
+in a closed chair to the yellow house in the Marcos square where, till
+yesterday, I have been confined to the court and inner rooms, with only
+my maid as company and a daily visit from him at which I learned the
+news of your progress toward recovery. Last night we were removed to
+this vessel, and I have expected your arrival with hope and fear. His
+idea is to force a marriage with me by threats against your life, or to
+sail for Hainan or Formosa and accomplish his designs where law and
+justice for us are unknown."
+
+Hurried cries from the deck and a call at the door in Chinese were heard
+and the guide sheathing his sword rushed from the cabin. In a moment the
+lovers were together. The bonds which held Adams' arm were cut and
+Priscilla pointing to the little window cried, "Robert, God is with us!"
+With his one arm encircling Priscilla they looked from the window.
+Apparently a strong gale had suddenly sprung up from the south east and
+rain was falling in torrents; the wind continued to increase though the
+rain passed by, but in the distance appeared a dark tower of water
+slowly moving toward Macao, rushing with bending, changing outline from
+water to sky. The gale became fiercer and the tumult on deck increased.
+Immediately from Taipa came the sound of cannon and it was answered by
+Macao with her heaviest ordnance as if a battle were raging, and, indeed
+it was a terrible battle, one between man and the elements, but man was
+victor and the water spout was broken. The force of the tornado however
+had yet to reach its climax and for fully five minutes swept over the
+terrified city and bay with fearful power. Sampans and junks were hurled
+like egg-shells upon the shore, where but for the low tide, thousands
+instead of hundreds of lives would have been sacrificed. The men-of-war
+and the river steamboats did good service, for the course of the
+tornado, was so restricted that though but a hundred yards from its
+limit of violence they were untouched. Dom Pedro's junk with others was
+torn from its moorings and overturned, but not before Adams and
+Priscilla had jumped from the deck. Even in the awful confusion and the
+terror of the first plunge which carried them below the surface of the
+angry waves, she kept her hand clasped upon the empty sleeve of her
+recovered protector. Being both good swimmers they assisted each other
+with that knowledge of the water and the trust which all coast born
+people have in the mother sea. A boat from one of the war vessels picked
+them up and in a short time they were both beneath the roof of good Dom
+d'Amaral, and rumor with unusual tread, but suited to Macao, slowly
+announced the fact of Priscilla's return.
+
+Dom Pedro weak, and with a broken arm, was also carried to the house of
+his father and none but the principal actors in the tragedy understood
+the mystery.
+
+Priscilla had returned in the midst of the tornado, and that was all.
+The unfortunate young woman was completely prostrated by the terrible
+experiences through which she had lately passed and lay as if lifeless.
+The physicians dreaded an attack of fever would follow, and their worst
+fears were realized. Several weeks went by in anxious watching by the
+sick woman's bedside when at last the fever turned and she gradually
+grew better. Nothing was said of the occurrences which had brought the
+illness about, and Priscilla remembered nothing of them apparently, for
+she asked for no one and seemed happy and content to be left with her
+Chinese _ama_. When she had recovered strength enough to be carried
+into the court-yard it was with joyful expectancy that Adams went to
+greet her, yet his heart sank with sorrow when he saw the marks of the
+great suffering in her face and a terrible desire for revenge seized
+him, which became the dominant passion of his life.
+
+The saddest part of this tale may be given in a few words. Priscilla
+Harvey never regained her reason, though she found pleasure in all the
+beauties of nature and her life was happy during the two years before
+her death. Dom Pedro went to Hong Kong and soon disappeared. Robert
+Adams remained in Macao taking charge of the d'Amaral foreign business.
+He was the daily companion of the unfortunate Priscilla in all her walks
+and it was but a year after her death, when I visited my uncle Robert in
+Macao, when the tragic event occurred which is narrated at the beginning
+of this history.
+
+My uncle is near my own age and we are more like brothers and have been
+together, since the death of Dom Pedro at Camoen's Grotto. The Courts of
+Macao exonerated Adams and though the good Dom d'Amaral would willingly
+have had him remain in the house at Macao it was not pleasant to think,
+that, even justified as he was, he had killed the only son of his host.
+
+It was early in the morning when we left the drowsy city; the sun had
+just touched the windows of Sam Januarius, and as the river boat dropped
+into the stream, the church of Our Lady of Guia received its morning
+salutation. The period had come to this story of love and loss, and the
+book closed.
+
+Perhaps it is just as well not to work, or play, or read except in "the
+library of the grasshoppers" as do my own good, sleeping friends in
+Macao.
+
+
+
+
+My Sapphire Ring.
+
+
+     Where have I seen the sapphire rimmed with gold?
+     When on the dark blue Carribbean sea,
+     Floating at sunset, dreaming lazily,
+     I saw the God of Day the world enfold;
+     There did my eyes the sapphire rare behold.
+
+     I saw the sapphire, when the day was young
+     In royal Venice, as I lay and gazed
+     Into the morning sky, and saw, amazed,
+     Its deep hued brilliance, ere a bird had sung,
+     Or Matin bells from San Stefano rung.
+
+     Once when my course, with myriad sea-flowers strewn,
+     Was o'er Formosa's waves of purple dulse,
+     Rising and falling like a fevered pulse,
+     Moved by the hot and southern born monsoon,
+     I saw the sapphire glow in tropic noon.
+
+     But in our home, beneath our own blue skies,
+     Before I knew these treasures of the Earth,
+     I saw the sapphire of far greater worth--
+     The first born friendship in your boyhood's eyes--
+     Of which this ring as token now I prize.
+
+
+
+
+The Hen That Could Lay and Lie.
+
+
+I had the following story from the bill of an old Spanish hen, an
+inveterate cackler, who used to fly over the neighbouring fence and
+wander, with happy, self-communing clucks about my vegetable garden.
+
+"Yes young man you are young, you may feel bigger than I am, but you are
+not quite so tough, indeed toughness alone has saved me my life for a
+good many Christmas mornings. I am a tough old hen, I have seen the
+world; I have traveled. You know the island in the Napa River just above
+the railroad bridge? Well, I was wrecked there in my young days and it
+happened in this manner.
+
+"The spring of the year 18-- was a wet one; snow fell in the foothills
+and when it melted, the waters rushed down through the cañons and filled
+the river. Our coop, (I say ours as I had a husband then,) stood near
+the bank, and the rising water carried it away. I shall never forget the
+night. It was Billy's last night on earth; Billy was my better half, and
+a handsome, young cock he was, all the young pullets in the yard had
+yellow combs, from envy, the day we were married. Old Partlett with her
+brood of twelve ducks tried her best to get him, but Billy said he
+didn't think it was quite the most moral thing in the world for a hen of
+her age to hatch out ducks and it set a bad example to the young
+'broilers' who were growing up about us, so he declined her proposals
+with thanks and sent her off with her ugly-mouthed off-spring. Well, as
+I was saying, our coop was carried down the stream, Billy and I
+balancing ourselves on the upper roost and speaking words of comfort to
+cheer up each other's fast fainting gizzards. We hens have a proverb
+which says, 'A life without hope is an egg without a yolk, a gizzard
+without gravel,' and that night proved the words to be true. Suddenly
+down went Billy into the roaring flood. I can see his yellow spurs as he
+went under, and his clutching claws, those beautiful, shining claws that
+only walked the path of virtue, as far as I knew. Alas how I fluttered,
+I tried to crow for help but it was useless, I could no more do it than
+the hens of your genus can whistle. Billy went out forever.
+
+"How I remember his kindness now; how he would find the best worms and
+grasshoppers and always call me to see them before he ate them, not as
+that old beast Cochin China does, who not even lets his wife look at the
+delicious morsels he swallows.
+
+"Billy is gone, so I will not regret him for he is probably chief
+crower in St. Peter's hennery now. How Peter must blush when he hears
+Billy crow, if he has any shame for his past sins. They say St. Peter
+has to keep all the dead cocks as a sort of punishment and reminder.
+
+"That night I pulled all the yellow feathers out of my tail, (I have
+Cochin blood in my veins,) and I have gone in black Spanish costume ever
+since out of respect for Billy.
+
+"By morning I was cast with the coop upon a deserted island; there was
+nothing but a coarse grass that was eatable, but I was almost dead with
+hunger, and was about giving up in despair when a happy thought struck
+me, and, I laid an egg, which with a little grass made me a good meal.
+Each day I laid an egg and ate it, feeling that my life at least could
+be saved, though I must be forever without society, yet I thanked heaven
+that hens were made with such resources. Alas! I began to notice that
+the eggs grew smaller each day and I felt starvation again taking me by
+the wattles. To die without friends on a desert island, horrible! Alone!
+Why? Can I not hatch these eggs, can I not raise a brood of little
+pullets who shall lay eggs for themselves and me? Time passed and I
+brought from the shells eight little chicks, but alas they were all
+cocks; poor me. What are they good for on a desert island? They cannot
+even keep themselves. Perhaps I had thought too much of Billy during the
+setting and that influenced the eggs. But my complaint was punished, for
+all of the brood were caught one day in the current and carried away.
+Poor, little, posthumous chicks, how your father Billy would have loved
+you and taught you to crow. Again I tried; this time with more success
+and brought from the eggs six little, fluffy pullets. All lived and we
+took turns, off and on, supplying the family with eggs, till one day men
+passing in a row boat, saw us and took us aboard. We had been on the
+island for two months. All my six pullets lived and married, and are now
+in the yard over the fence."
+
+All this time I had been so interested in the story, that I had not
+noticed the narrator who was in the midst of my lettuce bed busily
+pulling up the young plants.
+
+"Shew there! What are you doing?" I cried. Off she flew with a cackle of
+derision.
+
+Looking after her in astonishment and at my poor lettuce bed, I caught
+the eye of an old turkey, roosting in an apple tree; he was smiling
+grimly.
+
+"So you have been taken in too," he said, with a suppressed gobble. "You
+needn't believe a word of that tale, and if you knew anything about
+raising poultry you would have seen the weak point in her story. It was
+only to play on your sympathy while she made a meal of your lettuce.
+That old hen is one of the toughest confidence operators in the yard,
+and if you take my advice, (and I have lived over four Thanksgivings,)
+you will keep an eye open for all black Spanish hens who have lost a
+husband."
+
+I thanked the old fellow and came into the house, and since then have
+kept on the guard against widows of every genus, with better success
+than Mr. Weller the elder attained.
+
+
+
+
+"Oceanic" at Sea.
+
+
+     What shall I sing of thee, my ship,
+       Lone center of this orb of blue,
+     Horizoned by the rosy light
+       Of peeping dawn, and sleeping evening too?
+
+     Thou art the pupil, ship of mine,
+       Which lights this round and azure eye,
+     Rimmed by the rosy lids of dawn,
+       And lost in sleep when evening rules the sky.
+
+
+
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+<p>Title: In Macao</p>
+<p>Author: Charles A. Gunnison</p>
+<p>Release Date: June 22, 2006  [eBook #18658]</p>
+<p>Language: English</p>
+<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p>
+<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN MACAO***</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>E-text prepared by Martin Pettit<br />
+    and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br />
+    (http://www.pgdp.net/)</h3>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<h1>IN MACAO.</h1>
+
+<h3>BY</h3>
+
+<h2>CHARLES A. GUNNISON.</h2>
+
+<p class='tbrk'>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<h4>PRESS OF<br />COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING CO.<br />
+<span class="smcap">34 California St., S.F.</span></h4>
+
+<hr />
+<h2>CONTENTS</h2>
+
+<div class="index">
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#FRAU_JULIE_FISCHER">Dedication</a></li>
+<li><a href="#California">California</a></li>
+<li><a href="#In_Macao">In Macao</a></li>
+<li><a href="#My_Sapphire_Ring">My Sapphire Ring</a></li>
+<li><a href="#The_Hen_That_Could_Lay_and_Lie">The Hen That Could Lay and Lie</a></li>
+<li><a href="#Oceanic_at_Sea">"Oceanic" at Sea</a></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+<hr />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="FRAU_JULIE_FISCHER" id="FRAU_JULIE_FISCHER"></a><i>FRAU JULIE FISCHER.</i></h2>
+
+<h3><i>geb. von Seckendorff-Gutend.</i></h3>
+
+<blockquote><p><i>Die beifolgenden, widme ich Ihnen, als Beweis in welch' unvergesslicher
+Erinnerung, die von mir in Beyern verlebte Zeit, gehalten wird, und
+besonders die unvergleichlichen Tage welche ich im Rothem Schloss zu
+Obernzeen zubringen durfte, Tage welche zu den schoensten meines Lebens
+zaehlten, und nie aus meinem Herzen verwischt werden koennen.</i></p>
+
+<p class='right'><i>Charles A. Gunnison.</i></p>
+
+<p><i>San Francisco, Cal., Xmas, 1892.</i></p></blockquote>
+
+<hr />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="California" id="California"></a>California.</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<div>This is thy form, dear, native home of mine,&mdash;</div>
+<div>A gold-net hammock swung from palm to pine,</div>
+<div>Moved by the breezes of the peaceful sea,</div>
+<div>And in the net, smiling so drowsily,</div>
+<div>My mother California, queen divine,</div>
+<div>Rests, while the poppy garlands her entwine.</div>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<div>In her warm arms, 'neath cloudless summer skies,</div>
+<div>As child I heard her bee-hummed lullabies,</div>
+<div>Saw her red malvas, blue nemophyl&aelig;,</div>
+<div>Pink manzanitas, deep-hued laurel tree,</div>
+<div>And what were marvels to my childish eyes,</div>
+<div>Her mariposas, (tethered butterflies).</div>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<div>What of the rich and wondrous foreign things</div>
+<div>Which each new tide to her in tribute brings!</div>
+<div>Although from olive, orange, fig, and vine,</div>
+<div>Her own fond children all their wealth consign,</div>
+<div>'Tis Flora's gifts my royal mother sings,</div>
+<div>As, joined to palm and pine, her hammock swings.</div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="In_Macao" id="In_Macao"></a>In Macao.</h2>
+
+<h3><i>A Story from the "Grasshopper's Library."</i></h3>
+
+<p>I was seated one pleasant day in the garden, which was given to the city
+of Macao by the Marcos family, near the grotto sacred to the poet
+Camoens, when a Portuguese priest came from among the wilderness of
+flowers and sat beside me. He spoke English with a pleasant accent and
+we read Bowring's effusion together, as it is engraved on the marble
+slab nearby. Scarcely had we finished, and the father was telling me of
+Goa in India, when my uncle Robert came from beneath the great banyan
+tree and stood before us. The father jumped to his feet, and throwing
+back his brown robe, rushed forward toward my uncle with a stilletto
+held ready for an upward stroke. Quickly my uncle drew a revolver and
+fired&mdash;and the father fell dead at my feet.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p>
+<h3>I</h3>
+
+<p>To those who have been in Southern Europe and have seen the towns along
+the Riviera, the first view of Macao, as the steamboat approaches from
+Hong Kong, gives the impression of having been suddenly transported to
+the sunny Mediterranean. Were it not for the colour of the water, and
+the Chinese junks, Macao would indeed be a perfect representation of any
+of those lovely spots, as she lies along her crescent bay, from Mount
+Nillau to Mount Charil, defended by the frowning forts of Sam Francisco
+and Our Lady of Bom Parto. Beautiful as this picture is, it was doubly
+so in the brilliant sunset colouring of a certain March day, as the
+steamer slowly came to her wharf and the passengers stepped ashore
+beneath the blue and white flag of Portugal, in this, her farthest
+eastern possession. The houses with their delicate washings of pink,
+blue, yellow or green, with white stucco ornaments, now golden in the
+light, had a warmth of colouring well set off by the dark foliage of
+camphor and banyan trees showing above the garden walls. The few
+passengers soon dispersed, in chairs or on foot, leaving but one of
+their number upon the wharf. He was apparently expecting some one to
+come for him, for he refused all offers of assistance from the coolies
+and seated himself just outside the gate. American, of medium height,
+brown<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> haired and tanned by a tropical sun, Robert Adams was as good a
+specimen of Anglo Saxon youth as England herself could boast of. He was
+the last descendant of a New England family, which had preserved its
+purity for three centuries as unmixed with continental blood as though
+the three centuries had been passed in the quiet vales of Devon, instead
+of in the New World with its broken barriers.</p>
+
+<p>For three years, after a successful college course, he had been in the
+only shipping house in Hong Kong which sickly American commerce of the
+day was able to support in the once flourishing China trade. A small
+fortune and a good salary, a constitution which even an Eastern summer
+could not break down, and above all, the heart of the girl he loved,
+were surely possessions which any king might envy him. Presently a neat
+bamboo chair borne by three liveried coolies came at a trot down the
+street, and being placed before this last of the passengers, carried him
+away into the darkness which, with the suddenness of the tropics, had
+fallen upon the city. The stillness was broken only by the noise of
+escaping steam from the boat and the regular patter of the barefooted
+chair carriers. When the chair had disappeared up the narrow, winding
+street, a Portuguese wrapped in a black cloak came from behind a wall,
+then by another way walked rapidly over the hill and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> down the other
+side to the Praya, arriving in front of one of the largest houses on
+that most beautiful promenade just as the coolies put down their burden.</p>
+
+<p>The oil lamps along the Praya had been lighted, stretching out to the
+Estrada Sam Francisco, where the bright windows in the hospital of Sam
+Januarius seemed to be the lake of lights into which this long stream
+flowed. No one was abroad, no steps sounded along the pavement except
+those of the sentry as he walked, and <i>smoked</i>, before the neighbouring
+residence of the Governor. Death at night and sleep in the day time are
+the characteristics of Macao. No one seems to work, play, sing, dance or
+even read unless the latter indeed may be done in what Alphonse Daudet
+calls <i>la Bibliotheque des cigales</i>.</p>
+
+<p>As Robert Adams stepped from the chair, the Portuguese came forward with
+outstretched hand saying: "What is the news Dom Robert in Hong Kong?"
+"Oh, Dom Pedro, you came out so suddenly I thought I was attacked. No
+news, unless it is that the rector of St. John's is to join me to the
+loveliest girl in Macao or the world, in just three weeks." "I hope you
+won't disappoint him Dom Robert, you came very near doing so to-night,"
+said Pedro de Amaral with a laugh. "How, pray?" asked Adams as they
+entered the now unbarred gate. "You were within three feet of the water,
+if you had<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> fallen in, that would have disappointed him. Not? Three feet
+is near. Not?" "Yes, and the boiler might have burst," replied Adams
+laughing. "Or more improbable yet the Portuguese government might have
+revived Macao, which would kill me with astonishment my dear Amaral."</p>
+
+<p>Having entered the house he was followed by Dom Pedro, who bent upon him
+such a look of hatred as only the eyes of Latin races can give. The
+Portuguese turned to the right to his own apartments and Adams following
+a servant to the left, was soon in the dimly lighted library of Dom Luiz
+de Amaral the father of Dom Pedro. There were not many books on the
+shelves but a superb collection of Oriental swords and knives was
+arranged in the cases from which the shelves had been taken. Two old
+engravings, one of the poet Camoens and the other of Catarina de Atayde,
+his beloved, who died of grief at his banishment, hung on the wall; the
+rest of the furnishings was of that cosmopolitan character which is sure
+to collect in the home of a European resident in the far East.</p>
+
+<p>"Can't you see me Robert?" said a laughing voice of great sweetness from
+a corner of the study. "One would think that both your eyes had met the
+same fate that the right one of poor Camoens did in Morocco." "My
+darling Priscilla how could I see you<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> ten feet away from the light? You
+know olive oil don't give the brightest illumination. But its enough
+though." "Don't!" "Just one," and then a sound not unknown to many of us
+put a stop to the conversation. "Shall I leave the room children?" came
+in merry tones from another corner and immediately an old lady came
+forward giving both hands to him. "That miserable oil of Dom Amaral's
+has put me into a pretty mess," said Adams half annoyed, but laughing as
+he greeted the lady. "Don't berate me before my face dear friend about
+my light, especially when you are so soon to take our brightest light
+away from us." "Fairly trapped, Dom Amaral," cried Adams laughing
+heartily at this third interruption. "And here is Dom Pedro dressed for
+dinner," he continued as the younger Amaral entered the room. "I'll be
+with you presently and have my eyes toned down to your Macao standard."</p>
+
+<p>Being so constant a visitor, Robert Adams had his own rooms at Dom
+Amaral's, where he found his bags unpacked and the clothes laid out by
+those deftest of servants, the Chinese. According to custom the dinner
+of Macao was served at the late hour of nine.</p>
+
+<p>Dom Luiz Diego de Amaral was one of the wealthiest Portuguese in the
+city, having, unlike most of his fellow citizens, investments abroad
+which brought<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> him a considerable income after the birth of Hong Kong
+killed Macao and left it a city of the past, of poverty and pride.
+Having in his youth married a Spanish woman who bore him one son, Pedro,
+he was left a widower before the age of twenty-five.</p>
+
+<p>Some years after, being in Boston where he then had large shipping
+interests, he took a second wife, Priscilla Harvey, and returned to
+Macao. Madam de Amaral's only sister, wife of Captain Fernald had one
+child which was left an orphan at an early age by the drowning of both
+parents in Portsmouth harbour.</p>
+
+<p>This orphan, Priscilla Fernald, was taken to her aunt in China and
+became a member of the household of Dom Amaral. It was a strange
+transplanting for such a flower from the cold coast of Puritan New
+England to the tropical, Roman Catholic colony in the heart of
+heathendom. But the flower of so sturdy a stock remained true. It was
+long accepted by all, even by the maiden Priscilla, that young Amaral
+was to be her husband though nothing had been said on the subject.
+Later, the small circle of Macao society, of which poverty and pride
+were the ruling features, became too dull for the young girl and her
+foster parents took her often to Hong Kong where she met with those of
+the outer world.</p>
+
+<p>In that hospitable society of the "city of the fra<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span>grant streams," where
+the dinner table seems to be the only rendezvous, save a garden party
+now and then, a Tarrantella dance or a Government House ball, the fair
+Priscilla met young Robert Adams, a native of her far away and almost
+unknown home. The acquaintance blossomed into friendship and ripened
+into love. The lover was accepted, and now a courtship of two years was
+in three weeks to see them married. There were many disappointed youths
+and envious of Robert Adams, but all took their misfortune as in the way
+of the world, except young Amaral, who, in silence, had watched the
+course of events and now hated the happy suitor with all the fierceness
+of his Southern blood.</p>
+
+<p>That night Robert Adams, unlike the conventional lover, but like a
+healthy, light-hearted fellow, fell asleep without a sigh, listening to
+the waves as they broke regularly on the stone embankment before his
+window. In the room below, Dom Pedro walked until the early morning, no
+beating of waves could lull him to sleep, for his head ached and his
+eyes burned in the fever of jealousy. Thus he brooded over his loss till
+the sun gilded the hermitage fort of Our Lady of Guia.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p>
+<h3>II.</h3>
+
+<p>The following day was Sunday, the liveliest, or rather the only day with
+any life at all, in Macao, for the visitors from Hong Kong then go about
+the city sight seeing to be ready for the early return of the steamboat
+on Monday morning.</p>
+
+<p>A pleasant spot, and one not often molested by visitors on account of
+the somewhat toilsome climb required to reach it, is the church of Our
+Lady of Pehna on the summit of Mt. Nillau. Built in 1622 on this high
+point to be more easily protected from any possible invasion of the
+Chinese from the main island of Heang Shang, the church serves now only
+as an addition to the picturesqueness of Macao, and though repaired in
+1837 is again in ruin. Priscilla and her affianced chose this for their
+Sabbath walk, for it is only through nature that the Protestants in
+Macao can worship nature's God, and surely the incense of flowers could
+bear to Him on high the thanksgiving of those two happy hearts, as truly
+as the frankincense and myrrh which the good Fathers of the last century
+burnt upon Mt. Nillau. The narrow but well paved streets with their
+stuccoed houses, barred windows and little peep-holes at the doors, for
+questioning the doubtful applicants for admission, even the two months
+old posters of Chiari<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span>ni's circus had a new charm this Sunday morning;
+for Adams it was a day of quiet after his week of noise and bustle in
+Hong Kong, while for Priscilla it seemed a gala day full of life after
+the six silent days of sleepy monotony. "I can see that Pedro is not
+friendly toward you Robert," she said; "I could hear him walking during
+all the night and am sure he is planning something to annoy you, I know
+his ways so well." "Don't worry, Priscilla, Dom Pedro was probably
+troubled over some loss at the fan-tan table; they say he won five
+hundred Mexicans last week and then lost that sum doubled."</p>
+
+<p>"That may be so, Robert, but our approaching marriage is a great cross
+to him. It is hard to tell what Pedro's thoughts are; his eyes are like
+our Macao windows of isinglass and let very little light either way."</p>
+
+<p>The winding road between ruined walls of gray stone, half covered with
+clinging ficus, spanned by broken arches, with here and there a fallen
+urn, led them through picturesque turns and by mossy steps to the foot
+of the huge black cross erected before the empty church. Neither spoke;
+they did not care for words and the only expression which framed itself
+audibly was that oft repeated <i>jubilate</i> of health and youth, "How
+beautiful it is to live!"</p>
+
+<p>Dim in the distance, of almost the same shade as<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> the sky, rose the
+White Cloud Hills; lesser hills more distinct in waving outline lay
+before them; then rocky promontories and islands with grotesque forms
+like the twisted dragons of Chinese embroideries, and the low stretch
+which marked the position of the wonderful city of Canton. On the yellow
+water here and there were junks with tanned sails and gay banners;
+islands with graceful pagodas were seen, and the huge white cathedral of
+the near dependency of Taipa. Then in the foreground at their very feet
+was Macao, a feast of colour, red roofs, many-hued walls, green trees
+and brilliant gardens, beautiful as the jewel-set sheath of a Venetian
+dagger, with its poison and death-dealing wickedness hidden.</p>
+
+<p>Dom Amaral with his wife had gone to the new cathedral to services;
+their well appointed chairs had scarcely left the court and the gates
+been bolted behind them when Dom Pedro came from his room. His face had
+changed greatly since the day before; the loss of sleep and the
+bitterness of his heart had made him look pale and thin. For the first
+time in his life he had spoken harshly to his valet, and that meek
+Celestial wore an expression of grief and surprise, for Pedro Amaral,
+whatever his faults, did not have the vulgar one of venting his spleen
+upon his inferiors, so that his lifelong servant was at a loss to
+account for the sudden change.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Dom Pedro walked to the library and drawing the curtains behind him sat
+down before the cases filled with brilliant steel. Suddenly he looked
+away and picked up a book from the table, opening it at random but
+constantly his eyes reverted to the cases before him. Slowly his
+features relaxed and with a broken sigh he was about to replace the book
+when a small photograph card fell from its pages; the face was that of
+Robert Adams, the book Priscilla's "Common Prayer." Like a flash the old
+lines came back in his forehead; he went to the case and opening the
+glass doors, carefully took down a small, silver sheath, the work of
+some artist of Goa, wherein the influence of both India and Europe
+showed in the execution. The pressure of a button pushed out a grooved
+dagger which fitted so low in the sheath as to show only the head of its
+jeweled hilt. Dom Pedro removed the dagger, wrapped it in his
+handkerchief and then putting it in his breast pocket replaced the empty
+sheath in its old position.</p>
+
+<h3>III.</h3>
+
+<p>The government of Macao derives its greatest revenue from the licensing
+of gambling houses, and these form one of the principal attractions in
+the city<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> to the European from Hong Kong as well as the native
+Portuguese and Chinese. Whatever fault the visitor finds, on moral
+grounds, with these houses he must admit the fact that they are quiet
+and orderly, while the picturesqueness of the life within them and that
+peculiar glamour which varnishes all that pertains to a great gambling
+hall where fortune shows herself directly face to face with us, has a
+charm which hides the immorality from even the most straight-laced
+Puritan.</p>
+
+<p>One of these houses was the favourite and nightly resort of Dom Pedro,
+where he played high or low according to the state of his finances at
+the moment. Dom Amaral, though himself a devotee of the fan-tan table,
+observed with fear this controlling passion of his son which he believed
+would some day destroy the comfortable fortune he had amassed with so
+many years of labour.</p>
+
+<p>Adams would have certainly preferred to spend the whole evening in the
+family circle, but Dom Pedro urged him with so much, and such unusual
+kindness to accompany him to the gambling house that he consented, and
+at about eleven o'clock the two young men left the Praya and walked into
+the town beneath the soft lights of the oil lamps. The streets were
+deserted as usual, here and there a policeman, hooded like a pilgrim,
+sauntered leisurely along, or<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> the Chinese watchman with drum and
+clapper woke the echoes of the lonely ways warning thieves of his
+approach.</p>
+
+<p>The only illuminated houses were fan-tan houses and these presently
+became numerous; now and then music was heard but not of a very
+seductive kind. Into one of the largest and most gaily decorated houses,
+Dom Pedro and Robert Adams went, climbing to the second floor by stairs
+bordered with shrubs in huge Chinese pots.</p>
+
+<p>The main playing room contained several tables or counters arranged
+along the walls, behind which sat the croupiers; at one of these Dom
+Pedro stopped. On the table was a plate of metal divided into quarters
+of about a foot square by deep cut lines crossing it, each square being
+marked in Chinese characters indicating one, two, three and four. The
+croupiers rattled a pile of bright brass coins, with square holes in
+them, called cash; then as Dom Pedro made a sign that he was about to
+play, the croupier drew away a part of them under a bowl and Dom Pedro
+placed his wager on number three. The croupier with a bamboo wand then
+counted out the remaining cash one at a time in sets of four, until
+finally there were but three left; this being Dom Pedro's number, he won
+the stakes.</p>
+
+<p>"In good luck to-night," he said, turning to Adams,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> "Try if this is a
+lucky day for you." Robert Adams placed his money on the same square
+which Dom Pedro had won from, and again the croupier counted the
+remainder slowly, having drawn away some of the cash under the bowl,
+four at a time until but two remained and Adams' stake became part of
+the bank. "Lucky in love, unlucky at play" he said with a laugh, "I
+shall bet no more to-night." Dom Pedro's face darkened but in silence he
+continued winning at every count.</p>
+
+<p>Above the table was a square hole in the ceiling opening into an upper
+room where those could sit who did not wish to be seen, and were thus
+able to let their bets down in a little basket and with the same draw up
+their winnings. This upper room being purposely kept in half light
+enabled its occupants to see those below without being seen themselves.</p>
+
+<p>Dom Pedro's luck was astonishing and quite a crowd of onlookers gathered
+about. Robert Adams growing weary of the play in which he took no
+interest, left, saying that he would walk slowly as far as the ruined
+cathedral of St. Paul and on his return step in again. As he stepped
+back from the table he looked up toward the opening in the ceiling where
+were two women with faces wrapped in black silk robosas, which showed
+only the eyes; as the eyes seemed fixed upon him he raised his hat. The<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span>
+action seemed to cause the women considerable consternation, for both
+hurriedly sprang back from the rail and in doing so one let fall, upon
+the table below, the basket with a bit of paper and several Mexican
+dollars which rolled about the room. Everyone looked up laughing at the
+accident but no one from above claimed the money. Adams left the room
+glad to be in the fresh air under the clear, starlit sky.</p>
+
+<p>No more lonely or picturesque ruin ever existed than the church of St.
+Paul; though human habitations crowd close upon it, they are however the
+houses of Chinese and make the Christian edifice seem the more solitary.
+The church is of that favourite style of architecture so common in new
+and old Spain, which always brings to the mind of the wanderer in
+foreign lands the name of good San Xavier.</p>
+
+<p>The half moon had risen high enough to illuminate the whole front as
+Adams climbed the broad, massive steps to the paved space before it.
+Leaning against the heavy balustrade he enjoyed the picture. The shadows
+were deep and through the sightless windows shone a few silver stars.
+The magnificent front of solid granite with graceful scroll-work and
+carved outline, blackened here by smoke and there by age, with vines and
+trees growing from crevices, stood in wondrous beauty.</p>
+
+<p>The detail showed clearer than by day; the panels<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> in high relief, of
+full rigged ship, the double dolphin and the skeleton seemed too fragile
+to have stood through earthquake and typhoon and the conflagrations of
+war for more than two hundred years. The exquisite frieze composed of
+many unconventionalized flowers extending across the front, wherein the
+artist and worker had been one, was a petrified garland. This scene was
+a revelation to Adams for often as he had viewed and sketched the ruin,
+he had never been there by moonlight when its beauties were enhanced and
+its defects hidden. He could see plainly each Chinese character upon the
+carved scrolls and the words "Mater Dei" above the doorway.</p>
+
+<p>Slowly the shadows crept along, making the six broken saints in their
+niches seem alive; slowly the shadows upon the ruin crept along, but a
+swifter shadow suddenly came forward from the steps and Adams having
+forgotten, in the entrancing scene the murderer and thief who lurk in
+all Macao's corners, turned as he heard a soft step, just in time to
+receive in his right arm the upward blow of a dagger aimed at his side.
+He lost his balance falling backward down the steps, striking his head
+upon a heap of broken roof-tiles where he lay insensible. As he fell, a
+woman's scream pierced the night. There was hurried tramping of sandaled
+feet, as of a dozen or<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> more coolies. The shriek was again heard and
+then all was silent and the plaza empty.</p>
+
+<h3>IV</h3>
+
+<p>Sleepy Macao the day after the attempted assassination of Robert Adams
+was treated to a sensation such as had not been its experience since the
+memorable day in 1848 when the old Governor de Amaral lost his head at
+the Porta de Cerco. Murder, attempted or accomplished, could not have
+stirred them up to such an extent, for that was too common an
+occurrence, but the mystery of the event was the cause. Priscilla Harvey
+and her maid with one of Dom Amaral's most trusted men servants had
+disappeared as completely as though the earth had swallowed them.</p>
+
+<p>Robert Adams, since the night of the attack had not recovered his
+senses, and lay in the house of Dom Amaral apparently between life and
+death. The surgeons from Sam Januarius hospital had decided that to save
+him, the amputation of his arm would be necessary, for the dagger which
+had cut it had been poisoned.</p>
+
+<p>In the midst of this trouble, Priscilla's absence was discovered, and
+Macao was alarmed. Men were sent from the Governor's house in all
+directions to search<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> the public houses, the fishing boats, and every
+possible place within the small territory. Word was sent to Taipa. While
+the officials were thus employed, private parties of searchers went over
+the entire peninsula looking among the rocks and copses of the Estrada
+and even the Parsee Tower of Silence was examined, but all in vain. The
+fan-tan house proprietor told of two unknown women with a Chinese
+servant who had visited his house, but when they had left he did not
+know. No more was learned though the search still continued, for large
+rewards were offered by Dom Amaral as well as by the Governor.</p>
+
+<p>Dom Pedro directed the movements, taking greatest interest in all that
+seemed possible to form a clue, and did not rest for nearly forty-eight
+hours. Days soon formed a week but no news came, and Macao began to
+drowze again. Detectives from Hong Kong came, made the usual fuss and
+reached the usual conclusions of their kind, that it was a mysterious
+event.</p>
+
+<p>Contrary to all predictions Robert Adams, having become convalescent and
+the surgical operation by which he had lost his arm having proved
+successful when having heard the awful news, did not have a relapse into
+the fever but seemed with a determination to become more rapidly strong,
+and in five weeks was able to be about. He, of all Priscilla's friends,
+was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> most hopeful. To his mind vividly came the scene at the Ruins of
+St. Paul and that last sound he had heard. Adams' first walk was to the
+scene of his attempted assassination and Madam de Amaral, who was much
+broken with grief at the terrible event, accompanied him in her chair,
+Dom Pedro going with them.</p>
+
+<p>It was the month of May and the heat being oppressive Madam d'Amaral
+after viewing the scene was carried home and the two young men walked on
+to the Marcos garden. "I have a clue Dom Robert," said Dom Pedro as they
+seated themselves beneath a broad banyan tree from which a view of St.
+Paul's ruin could be had. "There began your troubles," he said pointing,
+"and there this morning I received a paper which will I hope lead to a
+solution of this mystery." He handed Adams a bit of Chinese paper on
+which was written in Portuguese, "Come to the Praca de Luiz de Camoens
+at 8 <span class="smcap">a.m.</span> to-morrow; follow the guide who meets you, and the lady
+Priscilla will be found." "I do not trust anonymous communications,"
+said Adams, "but we must clutch at a straw now." "Nor do I," replied Dom
+Pedro, "and I will go with you; we will go well armed." Adams glanced
+down at his own empty sleeve and a cruel smile passed over the face of
+Dom Pedro as he noticed his comrade's pain.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The 22nd of May will be long remembered in Macao and never forgotten by
+the family of de Amaral. Early in the morning Robert Adams was up and
+impatiently waiting for Dom Pedro, who appeared a little before eight
+o'clock and the two, after a hurried breakfast, went to the Praca de
+Luiz de Camoens where a Chinese sailor met them. They followed him to
+the shore where a sampan was waiting in which they seated themselves and
+were soon gliding rapidly toward a huge junk of fine build which lay at
+anchor some distance beyond the Portuguese man-of-war, in the direction
+of Taipa. The tide was very low and the vessel did not seem far from
+shore.</p>
+
+<p>The Sampan reached and made fast to the junk, and Adams followed by Dom
+Pedro climbed upon the deck.</p>
+
+<p>Quick as a flash Adams' arm was seized and bound to his side while Dom
+Pedro stepped before him. "Fool!" he cried, "you have stepped into the
+trap with little trouble. It was I who stabbed you, Dom Robert, it was
+I, who took the bride who rightfully belonged to me, as it is I who will
+use you for my own good till I may throw you away. You of Northern blood
+are fools."</p>
+
+<p>"I thought you my friend, Dom Pedro, and I thought you a man," was the
+only reply.</p>
+
+<p>Every appointment of the junk was of exquisite<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> finish, such as is
+seldom seen, and kept scrupulously clean. The men at work on deck, with
+usual Mongolian nonchalance, went about their business without giving
+the least notice to the events occurring. "The lady Priscilla waits you
+in the cabin," said Dom Pedro. "She knows my plans and though I shall
+not intrude upon you I have a Chinese on guard who will kill you if any
+attempt is made to free you. Enter." Adams stepped toward the cabin at
+the stern, where the usual shelf-like arrangements of a junk had been
+transformed into a cabin suited to European taste, with comfort and
+luxury. Adams entered and the door was closed. By it stood a guard with
+drawn sword; in the farther corner sat a woman at a table with her face
+buried in her hands.</p>
+
+<p>"Robert, as you love me stay where you are. Do not move a step, but sit
+down where you are." Her voice was so full of pleading that Adams forgot
+his first impulse and obeyed her. "I know all that has occurred dear
+Robert, your sacrifice and pain and the pain of all my friends during
+these sad weeks. Do not move toward me or you will be killed. I will not
+look up, dare not look up. On that Sunday, which now seems so long ago,
+when I bid you good-night at the library door, when you and he went to
+the fan-tan house, I followed you with his valet and my maid, for I had
+been fearful of his intentions toward you,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> and when his valet told me
+that he had seen him secrete a dagger in his coat that morning, and when
+I found one missing from the case, I had my fears confirmed. We followed
+and sat in the floor above you and tried to call your attention. When I
+won at the table at last I put in a warning note and then overturned the
+basket. You did not see the paper but he did, and read it. For the rest,
+you were followed at once by him, and we as quickly as possible followed
+both, but only in time to see you fall and to be seized and carried away
+in a closed chair to the yellow house in the Marcos square where, till
+yesterday, I have been confined to the court and inner rooms, with only
+my maid as company and a daily visit from him at which I learned the
+news of your progress toward recovery. Last night we were removed to
+this vessel, and I have expected your arrival with hope and fear. His
+idea is to force a marriage with me by threats against your life, or to
+sail for Hainan or Formosa and accomplish his designs where law and
+justice for us are unknown."</p>
+
+<p>Hurried cries from the deck and a call at the door in Chinese were heard
+and the guide sheathing his sword rushed from the cabin. In a moment the
+lovers were together. The bonds which held Adams' arm were cut and
+Priscilla pointing to the little window cried, "Robert, God is with us!"
+With his one arm encir<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span>cling Priscilla they looked from the window.
+Apparently a strong gale had suddenly sprung up from the south east and
+rain was falling in torrents; the wind continued to increase though the
+rain passed by, but in the distance appeared a dark tower of water
+slowly moving toward Macao, rushing with bending, changing outline from
+water to sky. The gale became fiercer and the tumult on deck increased.
+Immediately from Taipa came the sound of cannon and it was answered by
+Macao with her heaviest ordnance as if a battle were raging, and, indeed
+it was a terrible battle, one between man and the elements, but man was
+victor and the water spout was broken. The force of the tornado however
+had yet to reach its climax and for fully five minutes swept over the
+terrified city and bay with fearful power. Sampans and junks were hurled
+like egg-shells upon the shore, where but for the low tide, thousands
+instead of hundreds of lives would have been sacrificed. The men-of-war
+and the river steamboats did good service, for the course of the
+tornado, was so restricted that though but a hundred yards from its
+limit of violence they were untouched. Dom Pedro's junk with others was
+torn from its moorings and overturned, but not before Adams and
+Priscilla had jumped from the deck. Even in the awful confusion and the
+terror of the first plunge which carried them below the surface of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span>
+angry waves, she kept her hand clasped upon the empty sleeve of her
+recovered protector. Being both good swimmers they assisted each other
+with that knowledge of the water and the trust which all coast born
+people have in the mother sea. A boat from one of the war vessels picked
+them up and in a short time they were both beneath the roof of good Dom
+d'Amaral, and rumor with unusual tread, but suited to Macao, slowly
+announced the fact of Priscilla's return.</p>
+
+<p>Dom Pedro weak, and with a broken arm, was also carried to the house of
+his father and none but the principal actors in the tragedy understood
+the mystery.</p>
+
+<p>Priscilla had returned in the midst of the tornado, and that was all.
+The unfortunate young woman was completely prostrated by the terrible
+experiences through which she had lately passed and lay as if lifeless.
+The physicians dreaded an attack of fever would follow, and their worst
+fears were realized. Several weeks went by in anxious watching by the
+sick woman's bedside when at last the fever turned and she gradually
+grew better. Nothing was said of the occurrences which had brought the
+illness about, and Priscilla remembered nothing of them apparently, for
+she asked for no one and seemed happy and content to be left with her
+Chinese <i>ama</i>. When she<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> had recovered strength enough to be carried
+into the court-yard it was with joyful expectancy that Adams went to
+greet her, yet his heart sank with sorrow when he saw the marks of the
+great suffering in her face and a terrible desire for revenge seized
+him, which became the dominant passion of his life.</p>
+
+<p>The saddest part of this tale may be given in a few words. Priscilla
+Harvey never regained her reason, though she found pleasure in all the
+beauties of nature and her life was happy during the two years before
+her death. Dom Pedro went to Hong Kong and soon disappeared. Robert
+Adams remained in Macao taking charge of the d'Amaral foreign business.
+He was the daily companion of the unfortunate Priscilla in all her walks
+and it was but a year after her death, when I visited my uncle Robert in
+Macao, when the tragic event occurred which is narrated at the beginning
+of this history.</p>
+
+<p>My uncle is near my own age and we are more like brothers and have been
+together, since the death of Dom Pedro at Camoen's Grotto. The Courts of
+Macao exonerated Adams and though the good Dom d'Amaral would willingly
+have had him remain in the house at Macao it was not pleasant to think,
+that, even justified as he was, he had killed the only son of his host.</p>
+
+<p>It was early in the morning when we left the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span> drowsy city; the sun had
+just touched the windows of Sam Januarius, and as the river boat dropped
+into the stream, the church of Our Lady of Guia received its morning
+salutation. The period had come to this story of love and loss, and the
+book closed.</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps it is just as well not to work, or play, or read except in "the
+library of the grasshoppers" as do my own good, sleeping friends in Macao.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="My_Sapphire_Ring" id="My_Sapphire_Ring"></a>My Sapphire Ring.</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<div>Where have I seen the sapphire rimmed with gold?</div>
+<div>When on the dark blue Carribbean sea,</div>
+<div>Floating at sunset, dreaming lazily,</div>
+<div>I saw the God of Day the world enfold;</div>
+<div>There did my eyes the sapphire rare behold.</div>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<div>I saw the sapphire, when the day was young</div>
+<div>In royal Venice, as I lay and gazed</div>
+<div>Into the morning sky, and saw, amazed,</div>
+<div>Its deep hued brilliance, ere a bird had sung,</div>
+<div>Or Matin bells from San Stefano rung.</div>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<div>Once when my course, with myriad sea-flowers strewn,</div>
+<div>Was o'er Formosa's waves of purple dulse,</div>
+<div>Rising and falling like a fevered pulse,</div>
+<div>Moved by the hot and southern born monsoon,</div>
+<div>I saw the sapphire glow in tropic noon.</div>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<div>But in our home, beneath our own blue skies,</div>
+<div>Before I knew these treasures of the Earth,</div>
+<div>I saw the sapphire of far greater worth&mdash;</div>
+<div>The first born friendship in your boyhood's eyes&mdash;</div>
+<div>Of which this ring as token now I prize.</div>
+</div></div>
+
+<hr />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="The_Hen_That_Could_Lay_and_Lie" id="The_Hen_That_Could_Lay_and_Lie"></a>The Hen That Could Lay and Lie.</h2>
+
+<p>I had the following story from the bill of an old Spanish hen, an
+inveterate cackler, who used to fly over the neighbouring fence and
+wander, with happy, self-communing clucks about my vegetable garden.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes young man you are young, you may feel bigger than I am, but you are
+not quite so tough, indeed toughness alone has saved me my life for a
+good many Christmas mornings. I am a tough old hen, I have seen the
+world; I have traveled. You know the island in the Napa River just above
+the railroad bridge? Well, I was wrecked there in my young days and it
+happened in this manner.</p>
+
+<p>"The spring of the year 18&mdash; was a wet one; snow fell in the foothills
+and when it melted, the waters rushed down through the ca&ntilde;ons and filled
+the river. Our coop, (I say ours as I had a husband then,) stood near
+the bank, and the rising water carried it away. I shall never forget the
+night. It was Billy's last night on earth; Billy was my better half, and
+a handsome, young cock he was, all the young pullets in the yard had
+yellow combs, from envy, the day<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> we were married. Old Partlett with her
+brood of twelve ducks tried her best to get him, but Billy said he
+didn't think it was quite the most moral thing in the world for a hen of
+her age to hatch out ducks and it set a bad example to the young
+'broilers' who were growing up about us, so he declined her proposals
+with thanks and sent her off with her ugly-mouthed off-spring. Well, as
+I was saying, our coop was carried down the stream, Billy and I
+balancing ourselves on the upper roost and speaking words of comfort to
+cheer up each other's fast fainting gizzards. We hens have a proverb
+which says, 'A life without hope is an egg without a yolk, a gizzard
+without gravel,' and that night proved the words to be true. Suddenly
+down went Billy into the roaring flood. I can see his yellow spurs as he
+went under, and his clutching claws, those beautiful, shining claws that
+only walked the path of virtue, as far as I knew. Alas how I fluttered,
+I tried to crow for help but it was useless, I could no more do it than
+the hens of your genus can whistle. Billy went out forever.</p>
+
+<p>"How I remember his kindness now; how he would find the best worms and
+grasshoppers and always call me to see them before he ate them, not as
+that old beast Cochin China does, who not even lets his wife look at the
+delicious morsels he swallows.</p>
+
+<p>"Billy is gone, so I will not regret him for he is<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span> probably chief
+crower in St. Peter's hennery now. How Peter must blush when he hears
+Billy crow, if he has any shame for his past sins. They say St. Peter
+has to keep all the dead cocks as a sort of punishment and reminder.</p>
+
+<p>"That night I pulled all the yellow feathers out of my tail, (I have
+Cochin blood in my veins,) and I have gone in black Spanish costume ever
+since out of respect for Billy.</p>
+
+<p>"By morning I was cast with the coop upon a deserted island; there was
+nothing but a coarse grass that was eatable, but I was almost dead with
+hunger, and was about giving up in despair when a happy thought struck
+me, and, I laid an egg, which with a little grass made me a good meal.
+Each day I laid an egg and ate it, feeling that my life at least could
+be saved, though I must be forever without society, yet I thanked heaven
+that hens were made with such resources. Alas! I began to notice that
+the eggs grew smaller each day and I felt starvation again taking me by
+the wattles. To die without friends on a desert island, horrible! Alone!
+Why? Can I not hatch these eggs, can I not raise a brood of little
+pullets who shall lay eggs for themselves and me? Time passed and I
+brought from the shells eight little chicks, but alas they were all
+cocks; poor me. What are they good for on a desert island?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span> They cannot
+even keep themselves. Perhaps I had thought too much of Billy during the
+setting and that influenced the eggs. But my complaint was punished, for
+all of the brood were caught one day in the current and carried away.
+Poor, little, posthumous chicks, how your father Billy would have loved
+you and taught you to crow. Again I tried; this time with more success
+and brought from the eggs six little, fluffy pullets. All lived and we
+took turns, off and on, supplying the family with eggs, till one day men
+passing in a row boat, saw us and took us aboard. We had been on the
+island for two months. All my six pullets lived and married, and are now
+in the yard over the fence."</p>
+
+<p>All this time I had been so interested in the story, that I had not
+noticed the narrator who was in the midst of my lettuce bed busily
+pulling up the young plants.</p>
+
+<p>"Shew there! What are you doing?" I cried. Off she flew with a cackle of
+derision.</p>
+
+<p>Looking after her in astonishment and at my poor lettuce bed, I caught
+the eye of an old turkey, roosting in an apple tree; he was smiling
+grimly.</p>
+
+<p>"So you have been taken in too," he said, with a suppressed gobble. "You
+needn't believe a word of that tale, and if you knew anything about
+raising poultry you would have seen the weak point in her<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span> story. It was
+only to play on your sympathy while she made a meal of your lettuce.
+That old hen is one of the toughest confidence operators in the yard,
+and if you take my advice, (and I have lived over four Thanksgivings,)
+you will keep an eye open for all black Spanish hens who have lost a
+husband."</p>
+
+<p>I thanked the old fellow and came into the house, and since then have
+kept on the guard against widows of every genus, with better success
+than Mr. Weller the elder attained.</p>
+
+<hr />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="Oceanic_at_Sea" id="Oceanic_at_Sea"></a>"Oceanic" at Sea.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<div>What shall I sing of thee, my ship,</div>
+<div class="i2">Lone center of this orb of blue,</div>
+<div>Horizoned by the rosy light</div>
+<div class="i2">Of peeping dawn, and sleeping evening too?</div>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<div>Thou art the pupil, ship of mine,</div>
+<div class="i2">Which lights this round and azure eye,</div>
+<div>Rimmed by the rosy lids of dawn,</div>
+<div class="i2">And lost in sleep when evening rules the sky.</div>
+</div></div>
+
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, In Macao, by Charles A. Gunnison
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+Title: In Macao
+
+
+Author: Charles A. Gunnison
+
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+
+Release Date: June 22, 2006  [eBook #18658]
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+Language: English
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN MACAO***
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+E-text prepared by Martin Pettit and the Project Gutenberg Online
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+
+
+IN MACAO.
+
+by
+
+CHARLES A. GUNNISON.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Press of
+Commercial Publishing Co.
+34 California St., S.F.
+
+
+
+
+
+_FRAU JULIE FISCHER._
+
+_geb. von Seckendorff-Gutend._
+
+
+_Die beifolgenden, widme ich Ihnen, als Beweis in welch' unvergesslicher
+Erinnerung, die von mir in Beyern verlebte Zeit, gehalten wird, und
+besonders die unvergleichlichen Tage welche ich im Rothem Schloss zu
+Obernzeen zubringen durfte, Tage welche zu den schoensten meines Lebens
+zaehlten, und nie aus meinem Herzen verwischt werden koennen._
+
+                                                _Charles A. Gunnison._
+
+_San Francisco, Cal., Xmas, 1892._
+
+
+
+
+California.
+
+
+     This is thy form, dear, native home of mine,--
+     A gold-net hammock swung from palm to pine,
+     Moved by the breezes of the peaceful sea,
+     And in the net, smiling so drowsily,
+     My mother California, queen divine,
+     Rests, while the poppy garlands her entwine.
+
+     In her warm arms, 'neath cloudless summer skies,
+     As child I heard her bee-hummed lullabies,
+     Saw her red malvas, blue nemophylae,
+     Pink manzanitas, deep-hued laurel tree,
+     And what were marvels to my childish eyes,
+     Her mariposas, (tethered butterflies).
+
+     What of the rich and wondrous foreign things
+     Which each new tide to her in tribute brings!
+     Although from olive, orange, fig, and vine,
+     Her own fond children all their wealth consign,
+     'Tis Flora's gifts my royal mother sings,
+     As, joined to palm and pine, her hammock swings.
+
+
+
+
+In Macao.
+
+_A Story from the "Grasshopper's Library."_
+
+
+I was seated one pleasant day in the garden, which was given to the city
+of Macao by the Marcos family, near the grotto sacred to the poet
+Camoens, when a Portuguese priest came from among the wilderness of
+flowers and sat beside me. He spoke English with a pleasant accent and
+we read Bowring's effusion together, as it is engraved on the marble
+slab nearby. Scarcely had we finished, and the father was telling me of
+Goa in India, when my uncle Robert came from beneath the great banyan
+tree and stood before us. The father jumped to his feet, and throwing
+back his brown robe, rushed forward toward my uncle with a stilletto
+held ready for an upward stroke. Quickly my uncle drew a revolver and
+fired--and the father fell dead at my feet.
+
+
+I
+
+To those who have been in Southern Europe and have seen the towns along
+the Riviera, the first view of Macao, as the steamboat approaches from
+Hong Kong, gives the impression of having been suddenly transported to
+the sunny Mediterranean. Were it not for the colour of the water, and
+the Chinese junks, Macao would indeed be a perfect representation of any
+of those lovely spots, as she lies along her crescent bay, from Mount
+Nillau to Mount Charil, defended by the frowning forts of Sam Francisco
+and Our Lady of Bom Parto. Beautiful as this picture is, it was doubly
+so in the brilliant sunset colouring of a certain March day, as the
+steamer slowly came to her wharf and the passengers stepped ashore
+beneath the blue and white flag of Portugal, in this, her farthest
+eastern possession. The houses with their delicate washings of pink,
+blue, yellow or green, with white stucco ornaments, now golden in the
+light, had a warmth of colouring well set off by the dark foliage of
+camphor and banyan trees showing above the garden walls. The few
+passengers soon dispersed, in chairs or on foot, leaving but one of
+their number upon the wharf. He was apparently expecting some one to
+come for him, for he refused all offers of assistance from the coolies
+and seated himself just outside the gate. American, of medium height,
+brown haired and tanned by a tropical sun, Robert Adams was as good a
+specimen of Anglo Saxon youth as England herself could boast of. He was
+the last descendant of a New England family, which had preserved its
+purity for three centuries as unmixed with continental blood as though
+the three centuries had been passed in the quiet vales of Devon, instead
+of in the New World with its broken barriers.
+
+For three years, after a successful college course, he had been in the
+only shipping house in Hong Kong which sickly American commerce of the
+day was able to support in the once flourishing China trade. A small
+fortune and a good salary, a constitution which even an Eastern summer
+could not break down, and above all, the heart of the girl he loved,
+were surely possessions which any king might envy him. Presently a neat
+bamboo chair borne by three liveried coolies came at a trot down the
+street, and being placed before this last of the passengers, carried him
+away into the darkness which, with the suddenness of the tropics, had
+fallen upon the city. The stillness was broken only by the noise of
+escaping steam from the boat and the regular patter of the barefooted
+chair carriers. When the chair had disappeared up the narrow, winding
+street, a Portuguese wrapped in a black cloak came from behind a wall,
+then by another way walked rapidly over the hill and down the other
+side to the Praya, arriving in front of one of the largest houses on
+that most beautiful promenade just as the coolies put down their burden.
+
+The oil lamps along the Praya had been lighted, stretching out to the
+Estrada Sam Francisco, where the bright windows in the hospital of Sam
+Januarius seemed to be the lake of lights into which this long stream
+flowed. No one was abroad, no steps sounded along the pavement except
+those of the sentry as he walked, and _smoked_, before the neighbouring
+residence of the Governor. Death at night and sleep in the day time are
+the characteristics of Macao. No one seems to work, play, sing, dance or
+even read unless the latter indeed may be done in what Alphonse Daudet
+calls _la Bibliotheque des cigales_.
+
+As Robert Adams stepped from the chair, the Portuguese came forward with
+outstretched hand saying: "What is the news Dom Robert in Hong Kong?"
+"Oh, Dom Pedro, you came out so suddenly I thought I was attacked. No
+news, unless it is that the rector of St. John's is to join me to the
+loveliest girl in Macao or the world, in just three weeks." "I hope you
+won't disappoint him Dom Robert, you came very near doing so to-night,"
+said Pedro de Amaral with a laugh. "How, pray?" asked Adams as they
+entered the now unbarred gate. "You were within three feet of the water,
+if you had fallen in, that would have disappointed him. Not? Three feet
+is near. Not?" "Yes, and the boiler might have burst," replied Adams
+laughing. "Or more improbable yet the Portuguese government might have
+revived Macao, which would kill me with astonishment my dear Amaral."
+
+Having entered the house he was followed by Dom Pedro, who bent upon him
+such a look of hatred as only the eyes of Latin races can give. The
+Portuguese turned to the right to his own apartments and Adams following
+a servant to the left, was soon in the dimly lighted library of Dom Luiz
+de Amaral the father of Dom Pedro. There were not many books on the
+shelves but a superb collection of Oriental swords and knives was
+arranged in the cases from which the shelves had been taken. Two old
+engravings, one of the poet Camoens and the other of Catarina de Atayde,
+his beloved, who died of grief at his banishment, hung on the wall; the
+rest of the furnishings was of that cosmopolitan character which is sure
+to collect in the home of a European resident in the far East.
+
+"Can't you see me Robert?" said a laughing voice of great sweetness from
+a corner of the study. "One would think that both your eyes had met the
+same fate that the right one of poor Camoens did in Morocco." "My
+darling Priscilla how could I see you ten feet away from the light? You
+know olive oil don't give the brightest illumination. But its enough
+though." "Don't!" "Just one," and then a sound not unknown to many of us
+put a stop to the conversation. "Shall I leave the room children?" came
+in merry tones from another corner and immediately an old lady came
+forward giving both hands to him. "That miserable oil of Dom Amaral's
+has put me into a pretty mess," said Adams half annoyed, but laughing as
+he greeted the lady. "Don't berate me before my face dear friend about
+my light, especially when you are so soon to take our brightest light
+away from us." "Fairly trapped, Dom Amaral," cried Adams laughing
+heartily at this third interruption. "And here is Dom Pedro dressed for
+dinner," he continued as the younger Amaral entered the room. "I'll be
+with you presently and have my eyes toned down to your Macao standard."
+
+Being so constant a visitor, Robert Adams had his own rooms at Dom
+Amaral's, where he found his bags unpacked and the clothes laid out by
+those deftest of servants, the Chinese. According to custom the dinner
+of Macao was served at the late hour of nine.
+
+Dom Luiz Diego de Amaral was one of the wealthiest Portuguese in the
+city, having, unlike most of his fellow citizens, investments abroad
+which brought him a considerable income after the birth of Hong Kong
+killed Macao and left it a city of the past, of poverty and pride.
+Having in his youth married a Spanish woman who bore him one son, Pedro,
+he was left a widower before the age of twenty-five.
+
+Some years after, being in Boston where he then had large shipping
+interests, he took a second wife, Priscilla Harvey, and returned to
+Macao. Madam de Amaral's only sister, wife of Captain Fernald had one
+child which was left an orphan at an early age by the drowning of both
+parents in Portsmouth harbour.
+
+This orphan, Priscilla Fernald, was taken to her aunt in China and
+became a member of the household of Dom Amaral. It was a strange
+transplanting for such a flower from the cold coast of Puritan New
+England to the tropical, Roman Catholic colony in the heart of
+heathendom. But the flower of so sturdy a stock remained true. It was
+long accepted by all, even by the maiden Priscilla, that young Amaral
+was to be her husband though nothing had been said on the subject.
+Later, the small circle of Macao society, of which poverty and pride
+were the ruling features, became too dull for the young girl and her
+foster parents took her often to Hong Kong where she met with those of
+the outer world.
+
+In that hospitable society of the "city of the fragrant streams," where
+the dinner table seems to be the only rendezvous, save a garden party
+now and then, a Tarrantella dance or a Government House ball, the fair
+Priscilla met young Robert Adams, a native of her far away and almost
+unknown home. The acquaintance blossomed into friendship and ripened
+into love. The lover was accepted, and now a courtship of two years was
+in three weeks to see them married. There were many disappointed youths
+and envious of Robert Adams, but all took their misfortune as in the way
+of the world, except young Amaral, who, in silence, had watched the
+course of events and now hated the happy suitor with all the fierceness
+of his Southern blood.
+
+That night Robert Adams, unlike the conventional lover, but like a
+healthy, light-hearted fellow, fell asleep without a sigh, listening to
+the waves as they broke regularly on the stone embankment before his
+window. In the room below, Dom Pedro walked until the early morning, no
+beating of waves could lull him to sleep, for his head ached and his
+eyes burned in the fever of jealousy. Thus he brooded over his loss till
+the sun gilded the hermitage fort of Our Lady of Guia.
+
+
+II.
+
+The following day was Sunday, the liveliest, or rather the only day with
+any life at all, in Macao, for the visitors from Hong Kong then go about
+the city sight seeing to be ready for the early return of the steamboat
+on Monday morning.
+
+A pleasant spot, and one not often molested by visitors on account of
+the somewhat toilsome climb required to reach it, is the church of Our
+Lady of Pehna on the summit of Mt. Nillau. Built in 1622 on this high
+point to be more easily protected from any possible invasion of the
+Chinese from the main island of Heang Shang, the church serves now only
+as an addition to the picturesqueness of Macao, and though repaired in
+1837 is again in ruin. Priscilla and her affianced chose this for their
+Sabbath walk, for it is only through nature that the Protestants in
+Macao can worship nature's God, and surely the incense of flowers could
+bear to Him on high the thanksgiving of those two happy hearts, as truly
+as the frankincense and myrrh which the good Fathers of the last century
+burnt upon Mt. Nillau. The narrow but well paved streets with their
+stuccoed houses, barred windows and little peep-holes at the doors, for
+questioning the doubtful applicants for admission, even the two months
+old posters of Chiarini's circus had a new charm this Sunday morning;
+for Adams it was a day of quiet after his week of noise and bustle in
+Hong Kong, while for Priscilla it seemed a gala day full of life after
+the six silent days of sleepy monotony. "I can see that Pedro is not
+friendly toward you Robert," she said; "I could hear him walking during
+all the night and am sure he is planning something to annoy you, I know
+his ways so well." "Don't worry, Priscilla, Dom Pedro was probably
+troubled over some loss at the fan-tan table; they say he won five
+hundred Mexicans last week and then lost that sum doubled."
+
+"That may be so, Robert, but our approaching marriage is a great cross
+to him. It is hard to tell what Pedro's thoughts are; his eyes are like
+our Macao windows of isinglass and let very little light either way."
+
+The winding road between ruined walls of gray stone, half covered with
+clinging ficus, spanned by broken arches, with here and there a fallen
+urn, led them through picturesque turns and by mossy steps to the foot
+of the huge black cross erected before the empty church. Neither spoke;
+they did not care for words and the only expression which framed itself
+audibly was that oft repeated _jubilate_ of health and youth, "How
+beautiful it is to live!"
+
+Dim in the distance, of almost the same shade as the sky, rose the
+White Cloud Hills; lesser hills more distinct in waving outline lay
+before them; then rocky promontories and islands with grotesque forms
+like the twisted dragons of Chinese embroideries, and the low stretch
+which marked the position of the wonderful city of Canton. On the yellow
+water here and there were junks with tanned sails and gay banners;
+islands with graceful pagodas were seen, and the huge white cathedral of
+the near dependency of Taipa. Then in the foreground at their very feet
+was Macao, a feast of colour, red roofs, many-hued walls, green trees
+and brilliant gardens, beautiful as the jewel-set sheath of a Venetian
+dagger, with its poison and death-dealing wickedness hidden.
+
+Dom Amaral with his wife had gone to the new cathedral to services;
+their well appointed chairs had scarcely left the court and the gates
+been bolted behind them when Dom Pedro came from his room. His face had
+changed greatly since the day before; the loss of sleep and the
+bitterness of his heart had made him look pale and thin. For the first
+time in his life he had spoken harshly to his valet, and that meek
+Celestial wore an expression of grief and surprise, for Pedro Amaral,
+whatever his faults, did not have the vulgar one of venting his spleen
+upon his inferiors, so that his lifelong servant was at a loss to
+account for the sudden change.
+
+Dom Pedro walked to the library and drawing the curtains behind him sat
+down before the cases filled with brilliant steel. Suddenly he looked
+away and picked up a book from the table, opening it at random but
+constantly his eyes reverted to the cases before him. Slowly his
+features relaxed and with a broken sigh he was about to replace the book
+when a small photograph card fell from its pages; the face was that of
+Robert Adams, the book Priscilla's "Common Prayer." Like a flash the old
+lines came back in his forehead; he went to the case and opening the
+glass doors, carefully took down a small, silver sheath, the work of
+some artist of Goa, wherein the influence of both India and Europe
+showed in the execution. The pressure of a button pushed out a grooved
+dagger which fitted so low in the sheath as to show only the head of its
+jeweled hilt. Dom Pedro removed the dagger, wrapped it in his
+handkerchief and then putting it in his breast pocket replaced the empty
+sheath in its old position.
+
+
+III.
+
+The government of Macao derives its greatest revenue from the licensing
+of gambling houses, and these form one of the principal attractions in
+the city to the European from Hong Kong as well as the native
+Portuguese and Chinese. Whatever fault the visitor finds, on moral
+grounds, with these houses he must admit the fact that they are quiet
+and orderly, while the picturesqueness of the life within them and that
+peculiar glamour which varnishes all that pertains to a great gambling
+hall where fortune shows herself directly face to face with us, has a
+charm which hides the immorality from even the most straight-laced
+Puritan.
+
+One of these houses was the favourite and nightly resort of Dom Pedro,
+where he played high or low according to the state of his finances at
+the moment. Dom Amaral, though himself a devotee of the fan-tan table,
+observed with fear this controlling passion of his son which he believed
+would some day destroy the comfortable fortune he had amassed with so
+many years of labour.
+
+Adams would have certainly preferred to spend the whole evening in the
+family circle, but Dom Pedro urged him with so much, and such unusual
+kindness to accompany him to the gambling house that he consented, and
+at about eleven o'clock the two young men left the Praya and walked into
+the town beneath the soft lights of the oil lamps. The streets were
+deserted as usual, here and there a policeman, hooded like a pilgrim,
+sauntered leisurely along, or the Chinese watchman with drum and
+clapper woke the echoes of the lonely ways warning thieves of his
+approach.
+
+The only illuminated houses were fan-tan houses and these presently
+became numerous; now and then music was heard but not of a very
+seductive kind. Into one of the largest and most gaily decorated houses,
+Dom Pedro and Robert Adams went, climbing to the second floor by stairs
+bordered with shrubs in huge Chinese pots.
+
+The main playing room contained several tables or counters arranged
+along the walls, behind which sat the croupiers; at one of these Dom
+Pedro stopped. On the table was a plate of metal divided into quarters
+of about a foot square by deep cut lines crossing it, each square being
+marked in Chinese characters indicating one, two, three and four. The
+croupiers rattled a pile of bright brass coins, with square holes in
+them, called cash; then as Dom Pedro made a sign that he was about to
+play, the croupier drew away a part of them under a bowl and Dom Pedro
+placed his wager on number three. The croupier with a bamboo wand then
+counted out the remaining cash one at a time in sets of four, until
+finally there were but three left; this being Dom Pedro's number, he won
+the stakes.
+
+"In good luck to-night," he said, turning to Adams, "Try if this is a
+lucky day for you." Robert Adams placed his money on the same square
+which Dom Pedro had won from, and again the croupier counted the
+remainder slowly, having drawn away some of the cash under the bowl,
+four at a time until but two remained and Adams' stake became part of
+the bank. "Lucky in love, unlucky at play" he said with a laugh, "I
+shall bet no more to-night." Dom Pedro's face darkened but in silence he
+continued winning at every count.
+
+Above the table was a square hole in the ceiling opening into an upper
+room where those could sit who did not wish to be seen, and were thus
+able to let their bets down in a little basket and with the same draw up
+their winnings. This upper room being purposely kept in half light
+enabled its occupants to see those below without being seen themselves.
+
+Dom Pedro's luck was astonishing and quite a crowd of onlookers gathered
+about. Robert Adams growing weary of the play in which he took no
+interest, left, saying that he would walk slowly as far as the ruined
+cathedral of St. Paul and on his return step in again. As he stepped
+back from the table he looked up toward the opening in the ceiling where
+were two women with faces wrapped in black silk robosas, which showed
+only the eyes; as the eyes seemed fixed upon him he raised his hat. The
+action seemed to cause the women considerable consternation, for both
+hurriedly sprang back from the rail and in doing so one let fall, upon
+the table below, the basket with a bit of paper and several Mexican
+dollars which rolled about the room. Everyone looked up laughing at the
+accident but no one from above claimed the money. Adams left the room
+glad to be in the fresh air under the clear, starlit sky.
+
+No more lonely or picturesque ruin ever existed than the church of St.
+Paul; though human habitations crowd close upon it, they are however the
+houses of Chinese and make the Christian edifice seem the more solitary.
+The church is of that favourite style of architecture so common in new
+and old Spain, which always brings to the mind of the wanderer in
+foreign lands the name of good San Xavier.
+
+The half moon had risen high enough to illuminate the whole front as
+Adams climbed the broad, massive steps to the paved space before it.
+Leaning against the heavy balustrade he enjoyed the picture. The shadows
+were deep and through the sightless windows shone a few silver stars.
+The magnificent front of solid granite with graceful scroll-work and
+carved outline, blackened here by smoke and there by age, with vines and
+trees growing from crevices, stood in wondrous beauty.
+
+The detail showed clearer than by day; the panels in high relief, of
+full rigged ship, the double dolphin and the skeleton seemed too fragile
+to have stood through earthquake and typhoon and the conflagrations of
+war for more than two hundred years. The exquisite frieze composed of
+many unconventionalized flowers extending across the front, wherein the
+artist and worker had been one, was a petrified garland. This scene was
+a revelation to Adams for often as he had viewed and sketched the ruin,
+he had never been there by moonlight when its beauties were enhanced and
+its defects hidden. He could see plainly each Chinese character upon the
+carved scrolls and the words "Mater Dei" above the doorway.
+
+Slowly the shadows crept along, making the six broken saints in their
+niches seem alive; slowly the shadows upon the ruin crept along, but a
+swifter shadow suddenly came forward from the steps and Adams having
+forgotten, in the entrancing scene the murderer and thief who lurk in
+all Macao's corners, turned as he heard a soft step, just in time to
+receive in his right arm the upward blow of a dagger aimed at his side.
+He lost his balance falling backward down the steps, striking his head
+upon a heap of broken roof-tiles where he lay insensible. As he fell, a
+woman's scream pierced the night. There was hurried tramping of sandaled
+feet, as of a dozen or more coolies. The shriek was again heard and
+then all was silent and the plaza empty.
+
+
+IV
+
+Sleepy Macao the day after the attempted assassination of Robert Adams
+was treated to a sensation such as had not been its experience since the
+memorable day in 1848 when the old Governor de Amaral lost his head at
+the Porta de Cerco. Murder, attempted or accomplished, could not have
+stirred them up to such an extent, for that was too common an
+occurrence, but the mystery of the event was the cause. Priscilla Harvey
+and her maid with one of Dom Amaral's most trusted men servants had
+disappeared as completely as though the earth had swallowed them.
+
+Robert Adams, since the night of the attack had not recovered his
+senses, and lay in the house of Dom Amaral apparently between life and
+death. The surgeons from Sam Januarius hospital had decided that to save
+him, the amputation of his arm would be necessary, for the dagger which
+had cut it had been poisoned.
+
+In the midst of this trouble, Priscilla's absence was discovered, and
+Macao was alarmed. Men were sent from the Governor's house in all
+directions to search the public houses, the fishing boats, and every
+possible place within the small territory. Word was sent to Taipa. While
+the officials were thus employed, private parties of searchers went over
+the entire peninsula looking among the rocks and copses of the Estrada
+and even the Parsee Tower of Silence was examined, but all in vain. The
+fan-tan house proprietor told of two unknown women with a Chinese
+servant who had visited his house, but when they had left he did not
+know. No more was learned though the search still continued, for large
+rewards were offered by Dom Amaral as well as by the Governor.
+
+Dom Pedro directed the movements, taking greatest interest in all that
+seemed possible to form a clue, and did not rest for nearly forty-eight
+hours. Days soon formed a week but no news came, and Macao began to
+drowze again. Detectives from Hong Kong came, made the usual fuss and
+reached the usual conclusions of their kind, that it was a mysterious
+event.
+
+Contrary to all predictions Robert Adams, having become convalescent and
+the surgical operation by which he had lost his arm having proved
+successful when having heard the awful news, did not have a relapse into
+the fever but seemed with a determination to become more rapidly strong,
+and in five weeks was able to be about. He, of all Priscilla's friends,
+was most hopeful. To his mind vividly came the scene at the Ruins of
+St. Paul and that last sound he had heard. Adams' first walk was to the
+scene of his attempted assassination and Madam de Amaral, who was much
+broken with grief at the terrible event, accompanied him in her chair,
+Dom Pedro going with them.
+
+It was the month of May and the heat being oppressive Madam d'Amaral
+after viewing the scene was carried home and the two young men walked on
+to the Marcos garden. "I have a clue Dom Robert," said Dom Pedro as they
+seated themselves beneath a broad banyan tree from which a view of St.
+Paul's ruin could be had. "There began your troubles," he said pointing,
+"and there this morning I received a paper which will I hope lead to a
+solution of this mystery." He handed Adams a bit of Chinese paper on
+which was written in Portuguese, "Come to the Praca de Luiz de Camoens
+at 8 A.M. to-morrow; follow the guide who meets you, and the lady
+Priscilla will be found." "I do not trust anonymous communications,"
+said Adams, "but we must clutch at a straw now." "Nor do I," replied Dom
+Pedro, "and I will go with you; we will go well armed." Adams glanced
+down at his own empty sleeve and a cruel smile passed over the face of
+Dom Pedro as he noticed his comrade's pain.
+
+The 22nd of May will be long remembered in Macao and never forgotten by
+the family of de Amaral. Early in the morning Robert Adams was up and
+impatiently waiting for Dom Pedro, who appeared a little before eight
+o'clock and the two, after a hurried breakfast, went to the Praca de
+Luiz de Camoens where a Chinese sailor met them. They followed him to
+the shore where a sampan was waiting in which they seated themselves and
+were soon gliding rapidly toward a huge junk of fine build which lay at
+anchor some distance beyond the Portuguese man-of-war, in the direction
+of Taipa. The tide was very low and the vessel did not seem far from
+shore.
+
+The Sampan reached and made fast to the junk, and Adams followed by Dom
+Pedro climbed upon the deck.
+
+Quick as a flash Adams' arm was seized and bound to his side while Dom
+Pedro stepped before him. "Fool!" he cried, "you have stepped into the
+trap with little trouble. It was I who stabbed you, Dom Robert, it was
+I, who took the bride who rightfully belonged to me, as it is I who will
+use you for my own good till I may throw you away. You of Northern blood
+are fools."
+
+"I thought you my friend, Dom Pedro, and I thought you a man," was the
+only reply.
+
+Every appointment of the junk was of exquisite finish, such as is
+seldom seen, and kept scrupulously clean. The men at work on deck, with
+usual Mongolian nonchalance, went about their business without giving
+the least notice to the events occurring. "The lady Priscilla waits you
+in the cabin," said Dom Pedro. "She knows my plans and though I shall
+not intrude upon you I have a Chinese on guard who will kill you if any
+attempt is made to free you. Enter." Adams stepped toward the cabin at
+the stern, where the usual shelf-like arrangements of a junk had been
+transformed into a cabin suited to European taste, with comfort and
+luxury. Adams entered and the door was closed. By it stood a guard with
+drawn sword; in the farther corner sat a woman at a table with her face
+buried in her hands.
+
+"Robert, as you love me stay where you are. Do not move a step, but sit
+down where you are." Her voice was so full of pleading that Adams forgot
+his first impulse and obeyed her. "I know all that has occurred dear
+Robert, your sacrifice and pain and the pain of all my friends during
+these sad weeks. Do not move toward me or you will be killed. I will not
+look up, dare not look up. On that Sunday, which now seems so long ago,
+when I bid you good-night at the library door, when you and he went to
+the fan-tan house, I followed you with his valet and my maid, for I had
+been fearful of his intentions toward you, and when his valet told me
+that he had seen him secrete a dagger in his coat that morning, and when
+I found one missing from the case, I had my fears confirmed. We followed
+and sat in the floor above you and tried to call your attention. When I
+won at the table at last I put in a warning note and then overturned the
+basket. You did not see the paper but he did, and read it. For the rest,
+you were followed at once by him, and we as quickly as possible followed
+both, but only in time to see you fall and to be seized and carried away
+in a closed chair to the yellow house in the Marcos square where, till
+yesterday, I have been confined to the court and inner rooms, with only
+my maid as company and a daily visit from him at which I learned the
+news of your progress toward recovery. Last night we were removed to
+this vessel, and I have expected your arrival with hope and fear. His
+idea is to force a marriage with me by threats against your life, or to
+sail for Hainan or Formosa and accomplish his designs where law and
+justice for us are unknown."
+
+Hurried cries from the deck and a call at the door in Chinese were heard
+and the guide sheathing his sword rushed from the cabin. In a moment the
+lovers were together. The bonds which held Adams' arm were cut and
+Priscilla pointing to the little window cried, "Robert, God is with us!"
+With his one arm encircling Priscilla they looked from the window.
+Apparently a strong gale had suddenly sprung up from the south east and
+rain was falling in torrents; the wind continued to increase though the
+rain passed by, but in the distance appeared a dark tower of water
+slowly moving toward Macao, rushing with bending, changing outline from
+water to sky. The gale became fiercer and the tumult on deck increased.
+Immediately from Taipa came the sound of cannon and it was answered by
+Macao with her heaviest ordnance as if a battle were raging, and, indeed
+it was a terrible battle, one between man and the elements, but man was
+victor and the water spout was broken. The force of the tornado however
+had yet to reach its climax and for fully five minutes swept over the
+terrified city and bay with fearful power. Sampans and junks were hurled
+like egg-shells upon the shore, where but for the low tide, thousands
+instead of hundreds of lives would have been sacrificed. The men-of-war
+and the river steamboats did good service, for the course of the
+tornado, was so restricted that though but a hundred yards from its
+limit of violence they were untouched. Dom Pedro's junk with others was
+torn from its moorings and overturned, but not before Adams and
+Priscilla had jumped from the deck. Even in the awful confusion and the
+terror of the first plunge which carried them below the surface of the
+angry waves, she kept her hand clasped upon the empty sleeve of her
+recovered protector. Being both good swimmers they assisted each other
+with that knowledge of the water and the trust which all coast born
+people have in the mother sea. A boat from one of the war vessels picked
+them up and in a short time they were both beneath the roof of good Dom
+d'Amaral, and rumor with unusual tread, but suited to Macao, slowly
+announced the fact of Priscilla's return.
+
+Dom Pedro weak, and with a broken arm, was also carried to the house of
+his father and none but the principal actors in the tragedy understood
+the mystery.
+
+Priscilla had returned in the midst of the tornado, and that was all.
+The unfortunate young woman was completely prostrated by the terrible
+experiences through which she had lately passed and lay as if lifeless.
+The physicians dreaded an attack of fever would follow, and their worst
+fears were realized. Several weeks went by in anxious watching by the
+sick woman's bedside when at last the fever turned and she gradually
+grew better. Nothing was said of the occurrences which had brought the
+illness about, and Priscilla remembered nothing of them apparently, for
+she asked for no one and seemed happy and content to be left with her
+Chinese _ama_. When she had recovered strength enough to be carried
+into the court-yard it was with joyful expectancy that Adams went to
+greet her, yet his heart sank with sorrow when he saw the marks of the
+great suffering in her face and a terrible desire for revenge seized
+him, which became the dominant passion of his life.
+
+The saddest part of this tale may be given in a few words. Priscilla
+Harvey never regained her reason, though she found pleasure in all the
+beauties of nature and her life was happy during the two years before
+her death. Dom Pedro went to Hong Kong and soon disappeared. Robert
+Adams remained in Macao taking charge of the d'Amaral foreign business.
+He was the daily companion of the unfortunate Priscilla in all her walks
+and it was but a year after her death, when I visited my uncle Robert in
+Macao, when the tragic event occurred which is narrated at the beginning
+of this history.
+
+My uncle is near my own age and we are more like brothers and have been
+together, since the death of Dom Pedro at Camoen's Grotto. The Courts of
+Macao exonerated Adams and though the good Dom d'Amaral would willingly
+have had him remain in the house at Macao it was not pleasant to think,
+that, even justified as he was, he had killed the only son of his host.
+
+It was early in the morning when we left the drowsy city; the sun had
+just touched the windows of Sam Januarius, and as the river boat dropped
+into the stream, the church of Our Lady of Guia received its morning
+salutation. The period had come to this story of love and loss, and the
+book closed.
+
+Perhaps it is just as well not to work, or play, or read except in "the
+library of the grasshoppers" as do my own good, sleeping friends in
+Macao.
+
+
+
+
+My Sapphire Ring.
+
+
+     Where have I seen the sapphire rimmed with gold?
+     When on the dark blue Carribbean sea,
+     Floating at sunset, dreaming lazily,
+     I saw the God of Day the world enfold;
+     There did my eyes the sapphire rare behold.
+
+     I saw the sapphire, when the day was young
+     In royal Venice, as I lay and gazed
+     Into the morning sky, and saw, amazed,
+     Its deep hued brilliance, ere a bird had sung,
+     Or Matin bells from San Stefano rung.
+
+     Once when my course, with myriad sea-flowers strewn,
+     Was o'er Formosa's waves of purple dulse,
+     Rising and falling like a fevered pulse,
+     Moved by the hot and southern born monsoon,
+     I saw the sapphire glow in tropic noon.
+
+     But in our home, beneath our own blue skies,
+     Before I knew these treasures of the Earth,
+     I saw the sapphire of far greater worth--
+     The first born friendship in your boyhood's eyes--
+     Of which this ring as token now I prize.
+
+
+
+
+The Hen That Could Lay and Lie.
+
+
+I had the following story from the bill of an old Spanish hen, an
+inveterate cackler, who used to fly over the neighbouring fence and
+wander, with happy, self-communing clucks about my vegetable garden.
+
+"Yes young man you are young, you may feel bigger than I am, but you are
+not quite so tough, indeed toughness alone has saved me my life for a
+good many Christmas mornings. I am a tough old hen, I have seen the
+world; I have traveled. You know the island in the Napa River just above
+the railroad bridge? Well, I was wrecked there in my young days and it
+happened in this manner.
+
+"The spring of the year 18-- was a wet one; snow fell in the foothills
+and when it melted, the waters rushed down through the canons and filled
+the river. Our coop, (I say ours as I had a husband then,) stood near
+the bank, and the rising water carried it away. I shall never forget the
+night. It was Billy's last night on earth; Billy was my better half, and
+a handsome, young cock he was, all the young pullets in the yard had
+yellow combs, from envy, the day we were married. Old Partlett with her
+brood of twelve ducks tried her best to get him, but Billy said he
+didn't think it was quite the most moral thing in the world for a hen of
+her age to hatch out ducks and it set a bad example to the young
+'broilers' who were growing up about us, so he declined her proposals
+with thanks and sent her off with her ugly-mouthed off-spring. Well, as
+I was saying, our coop was carried down the stream, Billy and I
+balancing ourselves on the upper roost and speaking words of comfort to
+cheer up each other's fast fainting gizzards. We hens have a proverb
+which says, 'A life without hope is an egg without a yolk, a gizzard
+without gravel,' and that night proved the words to be true. Suddenly
+down went Billy into the roaring flood. I can see his yellow spurs as he
+went under, and his clutching claws, those beautiful, shining claws that
+only walked the path of virtue, as far as I knew. Alas how I fluttered,
+I tried to crow for help but it was useless, I could no more do it than
+the hens of your genus can whistle. Billy went out forever.
+
+"How I remember his kindness now; how he would find the best worms and
+grasshoppers and always call me to see them before he ate them, not as
+that old beast Cochin China does, who not even lets his wife look at the
+delicious morsels he swallows.
+
+"Billy is gone, so I will not regret him for he is probably chief
+crower in St. Peter's hennery now. How Peter must blush when he hears
+Billy crow, if he has any shame for his past sins. They say St. Peter
+has to keep all the dead cocks as a sort of punishment and reminder.
+
+"That night I pulled all the yellow feathers out of my tail, (I have
+Cochin blood in my veins,) and I have gone in black Spanish costume ever
+since out of respect for Billy.
+
+"By morning I was cast with the coop upon a deserted island; there was
+nothing but a coarse grass that was eatable, but I was almost dead with
+hunger, and was about giving up in despair when a happy thought struck
+me, and, I laid an egg, which with a little grass made me a good meal.
+Each day I laid an egg and ate it, feeling that my life at least could
+be saved, though I must be forever without society, yet I thanked heaven
+that hens were made with such resources. Alas! I began to notice that
+the eggs grew smaller each day and I felt starvation again taking me by
+the wattles. To die without friends on a desert island, horrible! Alone!
+Why? Can I not hatch these eggs, can I not raise a brood of little
+pullets who shall lay eggs for themselves and me? Time passed and I
+brought from the shells eight little chicks, but alas they were all
+cocks; poor me. What are they good for on a desert island? They cannot
+even keep themselves. Perhaps I had thought too much of Billy during the
+setting and that influenced the eggs. But my complaint was punished, for
+all of the brood were caught one day in the current and carried away.
+Poor, little, posthumous chicks, how your father Billy would have loved
+you and taught you to crow. Again I tried; this time with more success
+and brought from the eggs six little, fluffy pullets. All lived and we
+took turns, off and on, supplying the family with eggs, till one day men
+passing in a row boat, saw us and took us aboard. We had been on the
+island for two months. All my six pullets lived and married, and are now
+in the yard over the fence."
+
+All this time I had been so interested in the story, that I had not
+noticed the narrator who was in the midst of my lettuce bed busily
+pulling up the young plants.
+
+"Shew there! What are you doing?" I cried. Off she flew with a cackle of
+derision.
+
+Looking after her in astonishment and at my poor lettuce bed, I caught
+the eye of an old turkey, roosting in an apple tree; he was smiling
+grimly.
+
+"So you have been taken in too," he said, with a suppressed gobble. "You
+needn't believe a word of that tale, and if you knew anything about
+raising poultry you would have seen the weak point in her story. It was
+only to play on your sympathy while she made a meal of your lettuce.
+That old hen is one of the toughest confidence operators in the yard,
+and if you take my advice, (and I have lived over four Thanksgivings,)
+you will keep an eye open for all black Spanish hens who have lost a
+husband."
+
+I thanked the old fellow and came into the house, and since then have
+kept on the guard against widows of every genus, with better success
+than Mr. Weller the elder attained.
+
+
+
+
+"Oceanic" at Sea.
+
+
+     What shall I sing of thee, my ship,
+       Lone center of this orb of blue,
+     Horizoned by the rosy light
+       Of peeping dawn, and sleeping evening too?
+
+     Thou art the pupil, ship of mine,
+       Which lights this round and azure eye,
+     Rimmed by the rosy lids of dawn,
+       And lost in sleep when evening rules the sky.
+
+
+
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