MMprai

IN THE CHINA SEA i

NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURE.

irlieB, •* I wm tnrning to 1car« tb« apartment, I acoidentally kicked np a large, haarr mg that waa spread on the floor. Under it 1 aav a panel in the floor in which was fastened nu ■iron ring. I took hold of the ring and J polled. It tpok all my strength to ' more the panel, bnt at last it came np. j l found an opening in the floor about three feet aquare. There were some

' steps leading downward.

», srwAuo w.r norKixt. 2ft j I uttered a about of joy and called rtorra,.., me sr no.e.T Bo.wn. Ji . Mist Arnold. She came running

I “bnt whether it ie a cellarer

:,r . T ’ | honse, I can't tell. I an

_5d let us see if there is any way out : d own ."

of this scrape." I descended the steps. She shook her head sadly. i The p ] Me in v bieh I now fon “b" t n0t m ^ ^ m y* e,f WM but dim, 7 lighted. Thi

I am.an Engli Grace Arnold.

[cpm

the two

CHAPTER V.

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Chinamen reached

fading around the edge of

inlet to the pit, the girl gere a quick morem^at and Wrenohod .her-

f ielf away from the

When

the ledge

the inlet to the pit, the

: moremvut and away fropi them. \ She would hare plunged into the sea had they not caught her qnickly. She screamed and seemed to be beaide herself. I caught sight of her face, and in spite of her diehereled hair and tesrstained features, I saw at a glance

that she was rery beantifui.

My first impulse was to discover .myself and rnsb to her assistance. 'But upon reflection I decided that it would be an nowise more. Even though ehe were to be murdered I ! conld act help bar. * I would simply meet with a similar.fete /lor interfering. These men were trqed. It will be remembered that I whs without

coat or sh< any-kind, antagonist

men.

When thj rniformed mandarin reached the veil and had gone down a faw stops, he discovered the open door. Although*! had found the way to open the doors in th* mysterious island, T did not know how to dose them. The big Chinaman made a great ado aad gars some sharp commands. There were evident preparations for a fight. Ha went down into the cavern with hie sword drawn. They remained inside about half an hour. My position on the rock began to get wearisome, but the Bailors on the yacht were very watchful, and I dared not move about. An uglylooking fellow sat. in the bow with a rifle across his knee. There was little chance for speculation as to my probable fate if that fellow discovered

ae.’

After a half hour, I again heard voices in th» well. - ^ The big Chinaman and his servants appeared. 1 heard the great rook awing-back into place. The girl waa not with them. Now there waa. indeed, a real motive for remaining undiscovered.

. "Now," I said, "tel! me your ..3d let us aee if there is any wi

* this ecrape."

She shook her head sadly. "1 do not think there is," ehe said. ! my *„ e f( vas but dimly lights some relief to find a friend, i had been no attempt at o English girl. My name if «*»; it was simply a huge -race Arnold. My farther is Johr •> •- —

Arnold, a merchant of Hong Kong. My schooldays were spent in England

* sr died there. * *'— 1 —

i more than half a

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■lest Happenings Gleaned From All Over the Stale. The Woodstown Library has asked borough Council for $50 a'd the in

ititution.

Many citieeqs in Lower Allows} ; Creek. Salem eomuy. are afflicted with

the mumps.

Twenty persons have been received he Bloomsbury Methodist Episco-

Thomas H. Taylor, me popular boot and shoemaker at No. 418

Washingto

1 strei

Ur

ing neatly at reasonable

ineaa . Ri

at reasonable price*, doing business in

elven 1

• at No. 41! :■ all repair

tborouehtly and

He has been Cape May fot

1 years. Ripa in uppers sewed oy machine witb^ilk to match. Lost or broken evcleta or hooks replaced.

taut residents, native and European. Among those that I aaw ocoaaionailj was Cha Fong. I hated him and feared him. He has a very bad name. He is-regarded as the most cruel and heartless of all the wealthy young men of China, none of whom are free from crime. V I had been in the habit of going horsdbaok-riding, accompan ted by two Chinese servants. Tester^whtle riding in the anborbs, I I and thrown into a i taken to the coast and put aboard that yacht. I was shut np in a stateroom alone^ and re tnained alone there all night. In thr morning we set sail for this place. When I waaJoonnd again and taken on deck, what waa my surprise to learn that my captor waa Cha Fong. 1 knew then the fate that was in storl

for 1

I triad to wrench myself

> My heart even made too much noise in beating. I almost held my breath,

away from the men who carried me and throw myself Into the sea. The fact that I am safe and unharmed this minute is dne to Cha Fong's discovery that someone had been here. He

was much ai

enraged, and after a short

search, he sailed away to mast some one—I judged from his talk—some)ne who shared with him the secret! of the island, and whom he suspects of coming here without hie permission, and leaving the island open. He speaks Engliak vary well. I think I recognica the place ae the Island or

ofSn Foo. It is spoken whispers by the Enro-

1 of Hoi

ornamei cavern

was

■ntan in

strewn I, look-

into the Bloomsbury Methodist Episcopal Church on probation as a result of

a series of revivtWscrvices. Owing to tHy nigh price of Board of Freeholders of Salci .

will not purchase any at Jirgsent f(^ the new State sbad in Lowrer Penns Neck township. The price asked at

present is 4 cents per bushel.

The Suburban Traction Company ind '.he Delaware Valley Company arc oK? laining signatures for a right of wa> on the Shore Road in Atlantic county. The billowing officers have been tlected by the Mullica Hill Building and Lonrf Association: President. C. W. Elkinton; vice-president, W. H. Lawi 35;.

One would of itself have repaid me : Ministerial Association of

• - - h-d i Bridgeton has elected the following oi-

ine* i t * cers i° r ensuing year: President,

♦ton; it was simply a hr the io<A. This cavern

with varions kinds of mater

tag like packages taken from wreck* or, perhaps, stoleu along the coast.

Roll upon roll of the linen waa piled np on

linen waa piled np

of the choicest pottery stood

packed, many of the delicate pieces

Other thin era were there in

One wc tor the

comi

end

iUelf for it

ir. I fonn

liala, in bottle*

“ scovery meant much the liquor. It meant, -life. It waa a large

the

-ch, for it was what I

I fonnd liqnoi cordials, in bf“’ th* other discot

away in/good doubt, Cha Foul Mis* Arnold’* 1

great that I laughed

opened eyes when she 1

from the hole in U

bottle of w

‘.he Temple o >f in hashed ^

pean 1 oativi ‘-hing

erkapi, rescue—I ibihet, in which

weapons of war and of the chase. Gnn% pistol*, knives were packed

1 order. This was, no

mg'* armory.

1'e astonishment was so

at her wideiw me emerge

n the floor, carrying a a Martini-Henry rifle, avy revolver, a long

hunting-knife and a bag of, car- ;

iridge*.

"I am weli fired, yon see," I said, laughing, as I deposited my spoils on

the floor.

“Now, then,” I said, “I am going to get ready to meet Mr. Cha Fong. Do yon know what time he intends to

return?"

"Not accnratelv. Bat he expected to be back to-night, for he aaid, when tie cut the cords that bonnd me h*lQ(ess: 'Now yon can walk, but' you sannot escape Tram here.—Ton will

bride to-night.'"

itly! Now what kind of a

think this will 'easing the rifle, kgainst myself, if I

re, wines j R^ : .‘ CUrk ^T. Brol^feirVice-pretident'. id casks. | Rev w w Moffett. D.D : secretary tnt much 1 ln d treasurer. Rev. William A. Kump.

Like the managers of the Morris Plains Asylum, the managers of the State Hospital for the Insane, in Trenton. recommend the erection of a separate asylum for the criminal and con-

viet insane.

A basketball team has been formed at Pennsville, Salem county, and gamer will be arranged with Salem for the mpionship of the county.

Pickard, of Elmer.

b *-S,

so great was my fear of being dis-

covered.

Th* visitors descended the com-panion-ladder. It was taken down from the iron rings. Poles were put oat, and th* yaeht poshed out of th* •tone gate. The sail* were raised, and the vessel moved quickly away in the direction whence Ae had come. I remained concealed for what seemed to me an interminable time. 1 did not dare move from my hidingplaee until the .yacht had got far b *

enough eway to preclude discovery. I | P°*‘*

followed

Bob Tbi, idol 2U

of a young woman, who is put

its arms, after becoming ■ .

,HM o! tb. order. " ^ o| it . M „ „„

,abt ' I till .1 am deed and * ’

shape

o death in

die bride of th* priest of the order “Then this Cha Fong is, no doufa

; of Sn Foo, and ;

weddii

am not afraid to die.

'Well, I doubt if there is a Sn Foo

jht," I said grim-

lin'g here to-night,” I said grim1 And as for killing yonneUrrlon’t : of it - At any rate, don't do it

end go do’

"I fear^ao," ohe replied, sobbing

on't do i

all hope is lost

for btuint

h I will. to that chaml

saa, you

will load for hat chamber

ler the floor. I will replace the

; that Of ct

enongh away to preclude discovery. I j positive proof that < ' the vessel with anathemas for j maederons^du^n

V ran down . \ down and \ Again ■

\ opened to 'hot abort garden, ai

so slowly.

last 1 could ventore forth. I

laaped from the ledge into the pit and

down the stone steps. .1 knelt touched the hidden soring, the mysterious island waa

opened to me, and 1 entered. It was hat abort work for me to get .to the •ArAMt and here I looked for the girl that I knew mast be inside the island

Er : -srbWte

! that idol in the temple, and await do-

"No,”I said; that does not seem to Te i op ment«. Whatever seem* best to leoessary. Of coarse, there 1# no do j do. If, after a long enengh ittv# proof that Ohs Fong ia the | timei X do not and let you ont,

^ j by a great effort yon can posh np that

. - trap-door. If Cha Fong ia ■till mas-

"Bat mat u a plain enongh fact.' of the eituation, yon most try to „ , , , ! shoot him. ■ If yon don't eneoeed in

“^arytrxa. Grant, then, that the t is trns. Yottr plight and the ' .<j

Yoni

iem to re rumors abont Cha

exactions of the

j together, we have a oombinatioi

: is decidedly against na.”

iwte the truth ' riict

Fong and the j lomd#d ^ pirto , v] the crimes ol barreled..of tarn ralihei

m that

She was not in the garden. J Mi *» Arnold turned very whit* and I went into the temple. She was le*&ed against the back of her chair

not thee! . ! 101 ■oppovL

Bnt in the trsasnre-room I fonnd i ."Then,” I continued, hastily, ‘‘as bar. She was Staling on the flooi 1 everything seems to point to murder

by ■ large divan. Her faoe was buried porpo*

in her hands. She was weeping; she

arms also praying.

. She seemefl ts be in'a.delirium ot

grief and fear.

I approached her scUly. She could >t hear my footstep* on the

not hear my

rag*.

Binding

ihiefc

her, I touched het

on* purposes on the pert of those who hare na in their power, our predicament provide* ample vnrrant for. any act on our part toward the salvation oi ourselves. What I am getting at. Miss d, is this: Yon wanttne to kill prevent your falling again into

* of Cl "

Arnold,

yon top _ _ the hands of Cha Fong. My own way

‘ -onidbe to kill Cha

tightly on the shoulder.

With s scream of horror she jumped to her feet and bounded away from

to prevent that

Fong.”

My lovaly^pl low-prisoner gasped at

can a

She

"Yon need not fear me," I aaid.. “I will help yon if I can, bnt I will - do yon no barm." “lour ah* cried in a hoars# voice. "And who are yon that yon are hers "alive aad yet will help me?”

"Why, I don’t able about that.

^No. Bnt don't yon understand? j pUed;^bttt’if.yi?*^riiqnor."r«aw Hone can live here save those who are ! Cha Fong drinking'aome that lie got famUmre of Che Fong; aad his friends : i n thsre.” Shs pointed to the alcove

men with him. What two unfortunates?"

pale.

some kind hare," yon will faint.”

She smiled in rather a deprecatory

understand," she said, in a

hich wss'fire

HJ, - JT, a rifle, which was a repeater.

Miss Arnold sat and watched ms in silence. Now and then a tear would show itself in her eye, bnt she brushed it away. She was trying to be brave, poor girl, with horrors before her of which eh* could only imagine the ex-

tent.

I had' voot told her why I had left America. We had had bnt little time for talking; and when I explained my presence in the island I began my stray from the accident on ..board the City of Bio de.Janiero. . So when I had loaded the firearms T told her the story of Annie Ralston. She listens^ eagerly with clasped hands and pale

face.

"She is ay sister in misfortune,” ehe said, when £ bad finished. "Th-r.

is no don

ae* anything

I couldn’t help yon i way.

—"I am not going to faint,'’ she plied: "but If you want Jiqnor, I 1

. not help

"I do not know Cha Fodg." I replied. “I have never seen' him, un lees he U the amiable person with th*

big sword who brought Her faoe grew pale.

n there.” She point rhSra stood the bed.

"In there 1" I exclaimed. "Why, I thoroughly searched that place, bnt •ould find nothing in *

Company, with 100.000. was incorfilcd with the

. “There ton is the

10 donbt that Annie

'victim of another Cha Fong—or pertaps the same. I know that the 8a Fop ha* agents in all parts of the world, to choose and obtain the most beantifui girls for sacrifices to the

idoL"

"No so mnoh to the idol as to his worshiper*, I fancy,” I said. "My own impression is that the smci&ce to the idol i* nothing more than a plan to get rid of their vietime. If done under the cover of religions fanaticism it wonld no donbt be more dtSeult to obtain proof of th* actual murderer* ot th# eo-operation of the-Gov-

that place, bnt derers ot thi-eo-operation of th# G the way of U- ; eminent in bi iuging abont their pi

jishment k '

-.•a. ^ r*’--' “And what ia he going to do with

year I asked.

A look 0/ misery came into her fees, and ah* sobbed eomlaivsiy. "The worst he eaa do. He says 1

Me-

I-”- ‘•i

or for

ties

cord could not

'• ‘b* i hai or will meet her to-day, in

-and

mg*laad,

■ Bhang-

which

re lo

the intrut

■aw them with b

That was before the : faai'c

me were ent, *0 I case Annie is safe. We'hav# only t get a good look at them." , onreelvee to think of-and that terms

ooBfldenee if I kail yea mine flreA” behind Cii* Fong aad knock SlJSLf .‘L* 0 *?

She Warn, and eat down near sea, 1 suppose I might cat oae

The award of the prizes

plats will be announced February

1903.

John William*. *grd 65 years, of Philadelphia, fell on the ice in Gloucester City and broke hit leg. He wa»

her the story of my mishap* and the for that liquor first.''

_ . bH^t rospaethe is d_

ro« a hungry ^ "

"I am ready to follow year <

iona," said Bits. Arnold.

taken

The

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... L. Pickard, of Elmer, on his return from a trip to Vermont, found that someone had picked tj^e lock on his barn and stole »U bis wood. Among the fourth-class postmaster* just appointed were George E. Day at Wortendykc. and Mr*. Clara Montieth

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The Westfield Trns a paid-in capital of Sn

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The Commonwealth Quarry Company was incorporated at Elizabeth and papers filed in the clerk’s office of Union county. The company has an authorized capital of $100,000 and will do a general quarry business! Several members of' the Golden Eagles, of Fishing Creek, in order to get to the lodge meeting at Green Creek, waded a causeway, showing the true spirit of the "members.' Men around Green Creek are making good money working pn tbe sound* mis' winter. Clams and oysters seem plentiful. • | The new fishing smack Colonel Thomas F. Austin, which was feared had been lost at .sea has been reported safe in Boston harbor. The Earnest Workers of the Pedriektown M. E. Giurch realized $100 at

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A piano has been purchased and placed. in the town hall at Bridgeport. The Paulsboro Comet Band has pur-

chased new uniforms.

Oliver Ziegler, of Centre Square, while shelling com. caught his rigbt hand in the iheller and ^roke and

smashed all the fingers.

Mayor James D- Torton. of Pennsgrove, has butchered his prize hogs and found their weight to be 483, 495

and 5*5 pounds. -

The American Can Company's Works at Paulsboro will not be able to begin operation before February, owing to delay in getting the necessary

maehJhery.

The wiifTetjession of the Gloucester County'Tcachers' Association was held in the Court 'House. Woodbury- Dr. BeVier of the State Board of Education, and Prof.- Francis. Green of thfc West

and Frof, Francis. Green of£81013X0 JAaohlTlOS fir00,71*' J nr n iorrt^r h ^ice I ^St^T\ '' 420 Washington Street. ' '

guage.” Professor Green gave a lecture on "A Bird’s-eye View of English// Literature of the Eighteenth Century.’? Resolutions on the death of Professqr w T. Fox. of Clayton, were engross-

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The Oxford Tailoring Company, capital fsqxeo; the James F. Shediker I Company, capital $50,000. and the I-Simpson Banana Crate Company, capital.$125,000. filed articles of incorporation in tbe County Clerk’s office at

Camden.

John Weeks, aged 27 rears, of 2741 •North Sixth street. Philadelphia, had a leg crushed while working in a machine shop at Camden. He was taken

to Cooper Hospital.

Charles H. Allen, of CoUingswood. was held in $$do bail by Justice Schmitz for a further hearing, on ihe charge bf xmbezzling about. $200. preferred by Storekeeper George H. Clement, M H add on field, by whom Allen was employed as a clerk for seventeen years. The plans and .specifications of the competing architects for the new Camden ’county buildings are in the liands of DKector Bockle.-qf the Board of Freeholders. Tl>e award of.the

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