A Tale of Red Pekin

ooking our way. I shoul

ild, are you

everishly. "Do ask him

he doorway-a tall, imposing-looking figure, with a

few moments when I uttere

hing sight of my face in the mirror opposite, I saw th

red, soothingly, "I fear th

oy. This man comes straight from Chen-si, from Uncl

looked

e Lord has overshadowed us! I cannot the least grasp

him in her letters, he is such a clever man, and used to come to read

r he is wholly influenced by mercenary motives; it will not be wise to address me when he is here, and I need hardly tell you that he has not the smallest suspicion that I have any knowledge of you. He wants the reward which has be

rather, we almost breathed it

s silence

w that we are safe?

n. "And there was another, too, a young man, very young; when he heard that you were prisoners, he begged the Col

but I saw a young, bronzed face, and a pair of steadfast, bl

are fast closed now, and every man is wanted to defend them. Your only hope of deliverance lies in stratagem. This man carried news to the Colonel to-day, and will probably

, "if only that wer

ark face, "there is a gentleman without the gates whom you both know; he has been maki

ried. "Is he here

you were at Pekin, and gu

m; oh, I do hope he

runs less risk than an ordinary foreigner, as he is a doctor as well as a missionary. I thi

fe," we both mur

at Pekin the very day I could be of service to you. I knew that Mr. St.

help us?" as

his foot outside the walls."-Mr. Li little knew of the strength, and courage, and determination of which Englishmen are capable.-"Hope lies in another direction altogether; from this house there

use belong to

t. I do not think that anyone in Pekin knows of their existence, for, when they were constructed, I employed Chen-

ss, softly. "I suppose our grave

d caught my name at once, though he pronounced it in a cur

d, and tried to rise, b

been talking too long; the excit

o try and rest, or yo

swam, my blood seemed to be on fire; as I bec

her," and afar off, it seemed

be possibl

and shouted and danced in horrid glee; and then, all of a sudden I looked up, and beyond the fire I saw a face that I seemed to know quite well, it had mingled with my dreams, with my prayers so often lately-the face of the Christ-He whom I loved, whom I had chosen. I saw His face as I had loved to picture it, all worn as it were with the sorrows, and pain, and woes of humanity, and, withal, crowned with ineffable patience and sweetness. I was falling back into the flames, but He held out His hand, and the demons gave way and melt

eard it all as in a dream, nothing seemed to surprise or trouble me, but as I sank into a delicious slee

al to remain her