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During these hours he fancied be was alone : for the Chinaman who had placed a dish beside him, had sat himself down thereafter behind the English - limn so that Norris was not aware that he was watched. Gradually, as he removered in the warmth of the day the use of his limbs, the aching thought .olled him that escape was impossi- ble, even though he were—as he believed himself to be—alone. The power of his body was so weakened that he could scarce- ly move. When, at length, he succeeded in conveying the contents of the bo -on to his mouth, he felt somewhat the better of the food. and, as the day wore on, reeovered his strength, in so far that he was at length able to stand up, though reeling as he dal so like a drunken man, The Chinaman was watching him curious- ly, well knowing that Norris'e strength was for the time being as nothing ; and that eeen putting that feet aside, escape would have been an impossibility- Norris started when he perceived that he was net eione t the Chinaman was seeted smoking, and, to all appearance, much interested in the move- ments of him whom he ima evidently been set to watch. Yery soon Norris became convinced that escape from the plane where be now found himself was an impossibility : to seele the wall, even given that he should at sometime be left alone, appeared beyond the power of man; to pans the beildings even more so ,• and further, his temporary freedom from his bonds would, in all proba- bility, be of the shortest duration. Hie feelings was 3, mixture of agony and. despair. The home pessed with leaden step. Toward afternoon the first clew as to the reason of his ireptisonment was given to him. Several Chinamen had eome into the place of his captivity. One of these, taking a paper from the purse which he wore under his garments bended it to Norris, who,upon unfolding it, read with the greatest surprise these words written clearly in Enghsh : "Yon write note, make pay any man ten Englishman's hundred peunde." Where had this paper been obtained? Clearly it, had been written by a Chma. man knowing something of the English tongue, and kaowing it, too, not as a Wilde might know it, in the most ehildish form of pigeon-Englialt. Yen write note, make pay," it struek Norris at once. Little as he knew of pigeon - English, it flashed upon him that his guide, for instance, would rather have said sortie - thing like, " ):*ou mekey write some piecey note, belong Call tnakey pay, ' Such was his thought; and he continued to follow the train of conjecture instant- ly suggested to him when his eye had fallen upon the paper. " Ten Englishman's hundred pounds r— oue thousand pounds ; a, large ransom—more than these men who stood around would think of exacting'. One of the Chinamen interrupted his thoughts, pointing with his Bogert° thewrit- ing, as though demanding an answer. But the paper which ha.d been given to him was not one which could be replied off -hand. In the first place, what was required ? 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Ts.vto Secretary ; J. 13, Recites, Inspeetor . cirAi BELL, Agent for Exeter a nd vial ni tY would it not but increase their avarice? Weald they be content with.this; or would they not rather bleed him of his whole for- tune, and thett` perhaps kill him by cruel tortures, in the -endeavor to force more when there was nothing left ? The position in which he was placed seem- ed; to increase in horror et eaeh new move. One thing was evident, he must not pay this thousand pounds, even with the promise of freedom ; but opeued paths which led to fresh danger and to new terrors in the end. For could he believe that the unknown writer of this paper could be trneted for moment to fulfill a promise? His very method of treating .his prisoner (or the temple's prisoner ) proved his cowardly longing for gain. Who was this men ?—who could he be? Ae this point conjecture became vague, and, returning upon his thoughts, Norris decided that he should, endeavour by craft to uuderteias his unknown enemy's intent ; for craft was surely justifiable in such a Case. If the answer eame to his letter," "'es, yonwill instantly set free upcn giving me it letter to your bank," 'thou he could give suck a letter, bixtesign it with it false nkine 1 And if he were see tree—wet', then he Would. consider how far he was boiled in honor to pew this thousand pounds and to take up the false order upon his bank and if, as he was rather inclined to fear, the promise should prove as nothing, then at least he should wit have given the .first taste of blood to the wolvee ;and who dnuld' say but that the false order might lead. some day to his dism very and escape? This seemed the wisest, indeed the only course to pursue. Having come to this decision, Norris pro. ceeded to examine the note which had been Sent to him, aud which he atill bold in his bend. It was written upon paper of foinige make—English or German, not Chinese and this struck him as curious, in so fa that a Chinaman, unless of some high rank, vrould be unlikely to indulge in it theory eiteh as the using of paper other than Chinese. As he looked upon it, the thought came to him that, by carefully preserving the paper, there was it dim chance of his tracing the mau who had written the werds. That he was not an Englishmau was evident, alike from his diction and writing—even putting aside the cannection with his raptors —and from the fent that one thousend pounds would have been but a small demand from one of his own race ; so there was, in- deed, but afamt possibility of ever ascertein- ing who heel panned the lines Notwithstand- ing which, Norris determined to carefully preserve the sheet. The time seemed. to pees rapidly—so much was there to ponder upou ; and although the sun was setting, and, in reality, more than two hours had passed when the newer to his note arrived, it, seemed to Norris that his captors heel scarcely left him ere they returned. Yet bis impetience as to the reply was none the less strong, in that he had been coneidering every point re - goading the demand. which had been made. In a second of time his eyes had perused the lines now pitmen before him. A,ud this was the answer to his note': " Writo bank nirdp pay; then you go free. Write pxy any mine Die reply was what Norris had anticipat- ed. He should be free so soon ho gave the necessary letter to his bank—a letter which the recipent had apparently some' means of disoosing of. Now the question came to be, Was this -promise to be relied upon, or not? A few hours more would test the case. riting materials were again placed be- fore him. He headed the sheet to his Eng. clothing, which were constantly giving way. lith benkers, awl, endeavoring to disguise It was evident, therefore, that the only his hand, he wrote: thing which he could give, and the only "Payto hearer the sum of one then -and thing which could be referred to, was a note pounds sterling. for which" I shall arknowledge s ,. to, or it check upon, his benkers. Did the thiorder afell receipt. _ — than this,. it was impossible to escape from the temple, though it was bat seldozn in- deed thee the Chinamen troubled them- selves to set a wetch upoa is movements.. This confined, Norms cant about in hie own mind as to how it might be possible for him to eommunicete with his fellows. He had valeable poemasions—possessione whose worth he had not till 13.0W realized, and. these were comprised in the power or the possibility to write sinee he possessed the necesseries to do so. 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But these possessions were little without the knowledge as to how he might apply them. •A wild idea of casting over the wall smell messages, tied to twigs with threads plucked from his clothes, suggested itself to him ; but of what use could thie be, as the dust without would cover them?—and if, indeed, by any chance one should reach it bureau hand, that hand would. he Chinese. Then it still wilder idea, of capturing the swallow that ever an anon crossed the court came to hitn, and then despair that his chances were an few cast its shadow upou him for many days. Whilst, he was still burien in despondency, it so chanced thet two of the birds often who aid he bail cal. °Meted, with a wild. 'fleetness for it moment or two, snme days since, met hi conflice in the air above hum, and, whilst he watched them, both droppen toward the ground,fin- ally falling in the court, The feelings that fll'eul him—wild hope, intense longing, terrible exeitement—few can Understand. To secure one ofethese swallows 1 His heart burst within hint in wild pray- er. Re approached the birds. One flew off; the other was so wounded and torn as to be unable to rise upon its wing, though it ffitt- toren wildly and strogeled vaiuly to rise from the grimed. Norris mild have counted his heart.beats, Hastily taking of his coat, he threw it twice over the bird which now fluttered along the grenad. Eden time in his, terri- ble excitemeut he missed it. 'Shit again he threw the teat. ^ iug, or A week went by uneventfully, and tgsaizeitespg, taoswhaerdiaythueposutatrhsewskheinns.he euld toYe'n7ii eitme8 faraoymorheirs Nor- ris still remained captive, as far removed aimed, as on the first He rarely sew his captors; their curiosity regarding hirn was long ago satisfied, and seldom did any of 'them enter hi$ open-air prison save to give him food. Several ideas suggestive of escape had oceured to Norris—one that he shontd. soale the wall by the arduorts fahricatien of holes in its inseam', whereby he might, with diffi- culty, mount to the top. But there were reasons to.bar this gate of hope : the holes in the wall would at once catch the eye of the man who brought hint his food ; and again, he might, indeed, stieceed 10 xnek- ing stepping -places to a certain height, but beyond that, beyond. his reach whilst standing on the ground, how was he to do so? And this, like many another idea, had to be abandoned; for Norris well knew that once his captors perceived any possibility of his escaping, he would immediately be transferred to another piece, or possibly chained, either to the well or to some huge stone, as he had seen the Chinese prisoners clutined. Then, indeed, the last ray of hope would have gone Aud so, urged by extreme caution not to hazard a failure, he waited, eagerly examining the while every loophole of escape. And at length lie was in part rewarded., for he perceived that the man who brought his food WAS growing More careless, end would at times leave the door behind him hell been when he entered from the temple, Upon this Norris determined to act. The Olimitinan meet be overpowered silently and quickly: Nome had no weapon. His bends alone were not setlicient to do the dead at once evith absolute silence and rapidity ; so he NG About cereinily twisting a species of rough cord, or though, which he made from strips bitten or torn with his teeth from the skins furnished !sine to sleep upon—a tedious process indeed. These he twined peal knot- ted tightly together. This be (lid chiefly by 'tight ; and on the second day following his resointion to overpower the Chtnamen, he was in readiness to $eize his opportunity. He had it noose, which it was Inc Intention to cast over the meat's heed thus to strangle him by drawing it tight from behind, whilst his knee should be placed against the Vhina- man's baek. Such was his crane idea ; but the oppor- tunity was not given him for a, hiunher of days, for by some chance the man came ancompanted by another frotn this time forth. To Norris, in hie despair, it seemed as though every pessibiiity of escape were but flaunted in :roily before him to vanish writer know of the khighsh form of 1830 - in g cheeks ? If so, who was he ?--in what position 1 These were points the considera- tions of which set Norris's brain on fire. The Chinaman pointed impatiently a second time to the .paper. Norris could hesitate no longer. .A. vague hopefulness CHAPTER IV. filled him. He was, as he knew, tu the re- - mote interior of the Temple of Confucius •' A second night of Norrisn carivity but already a, chance was given to him of had passed. During this night 1m had tmen free to walk about for his bonds were now removed. Every hour that passed had been filled with anxious expec- tation, Though it seemed useless to hope, .he still hoped, waiting through the long night hours for that liberty which he had virtually bought, thongh upon the dismisaal of his second note nothing had happened, save that it large bewl of food had been handed to him it shore time thereafter. • During the night hours Norris endeavor- ed to convince himself that liberty must surely come with the morning. His note had been dispatched too late the evening before, he argued; and thus he hoped against hope. Once he wildly thought of endeavoring to escape. Alas eseape was impossible. The tree, his only chance, stood many feet re- moved from either wall or temple on every side. Nor did he sleep, worn though he was with long protracted fatigne and agony of mind. When day came, hour niter hour went by. The Chinaman resumed his post of watch for a lengthy period, but there were no signs of liberty after all and it was with a sense of thankfulness that Norris recollect- ed that he had acted prudently and had not trusted to the word of his unforseen foe. . It was not quite apparent that one thousand pounds would. not purchase his freedom from the Temple of Confucius in Pekin. It crossed his mind, thee perhaps the man'who had demanded the note of hand had been auspicious on account of his readi- ness in sending, Yea; undoubtedly- there he had been a fool. Perhaps, by his hate he had lost the chance of liberty—a liberty which might have been his, had he refused, ansi waited to endure torture before yield- ing to the demand for a ransom so large. And now he faced the weary expectancy of an imprisonment which might never encl, unless death, by whatmeans to be finally gained God alone,oeuld know, sheeld set him free. And he signed, "Albert H. Dyson." The Chinaman took the sheet from his hand, and once more Norris was alone. communicating with some one (who, at least, knew his language) in the outside world, be be it only in Pekin. Rapidly he made signs that he required to write. The Chinamen understood at once, and one of them hurried off to seek what was required. Evidently they knew what Norris had been asked. to a. In a moment or two the man returned with the materials used by the Chinese in writing—a brush, a pot of ink, and paper. Norris was obliged to plate these upon the ground, calculating at the time as to what he should write. Then he took the brush in his hand and clippecl it in the ink, whilst the Chinamen crushed round him in curiosity, chattering in their ugly tongue to one another. He drew every stroke with the utmost slowness, for each stroke gave him the longer time to think as to how he was to complete his reply. This is what he wrote; "1 am your prisoner. If I pay one thousand pounds, am I free'? My money has been stolen. All I can give is a letter to my bank to pay one thousand pottnds. If I do this shall I be set fres at once ?" It was short, yet he thought suffictiently explicit. He had learned, in bygone days, that it is well to cut a letter short, in case of doubt, so to convey something of ones's own doubt to the other side, if re be possible, by an atmosphere of brevity. He folded the sheet, and gave it to the man who had brought him the materials wherewith to write The recipieut, s first proceeding was to re -open ann scrutinize the sheet, notwithstanding that be had been carefully observing Norris as he wrote; and this act was of itself sufficient to prove to the Englishman that none of those present could read his words. Then the man left him, stillapparently discussing what was to them a strange .and curious thing. Otte of them stayed a moment to lift the ink -pot and the brush. And, at last, Norris was left alone—truly alone, for bis guardian had accompanied the others through the doorwey, which they had then closed and barred. Clearly they had no fear of his eseape ; his bonds must have been merely to restrain him from violence; and clearly, also, it was judged that the paper boruie. away was that required—the equivalent of the demanded thoureand pounds. As Norris thought of clue, it struck him that if the MPH 13411eVed this note to be what was re- quired, be should have been in justice at once set free. Why, then, was he still a prisoner? These men had rre. ceivecl, to their 'hence, whannhey deal ed, THE EXETlJE AKY, Indescribeldejoy filled him as he perceim ed that the swallow was beneath. ; then tarefully be seamed it in hie hand ana aet about examining the wound. The bird was but little hurt. Considerably less than half ah hour lame thereafter into nothingness. In his bitterness be recalled the incident a small piece cif piper lay before him, with of the swallow. Strangely enough, be had some words upon it written in his blood. • The swallow was „„eciy wrapped in his looked upon it as conelnuve at the time; cant. His thread he had procured from the I mow he began to think differently. The ono cep of his clothes, All that now Chinamen had seen bitn eat the livingbird ; should he not trade upon that fact? renewed was to festen the paper to the wilY There were many nests along the eaves of swallow's neck, or, better still, he thought, the temple. Could he but reech these to round its leg and then to throw the bird capture the birds, he might still emceed in over the wall, in the hope thee it might by the carrying oat of the old design. And if stick (he hall some time sines teetett it to pieces), m order to reech the bird awe bring it to earth it second time, thereafter to be ,plirown beyond he high weal. , He captured it without .much, difficulty 1 and SO intent was he upon the subsequent action of undoing the knots whteh secure. ed. the stick% that he did. not for et moment or two realize that time had passed more quickly than he had dreaened of, and that the Chinaman, with his food had entered • from behind, end now stood. watching him, with euriosity expressed upon evney line of bis miaow features, • The see -anew was struggling feebly bee neath the coat. Norris was intent upon his work. Suddenly be looked up. Some consciousness came upon him that he was not alone,. A band of eron seemed to draw his heart -strings together. The door of the temple behind was half open. He was dis- covered; but the man who had discovered him was alone, and as yet bad made no sieoailittcliet.1• . •1.16 appa*rent callommess he undid the , thong which he bad bitten front ea the skins upon which Ile sat, and which Inter now wore around his waist.. This he made rapidly, end yet quietly, into the form of a noose, as formerly, The Chinaman was observing his every act, curious as to what was the meaning of all that he saw, Norris stood up ; the stick in Ids one bend, the noose in the other, as though the twe had some cenneeticm. Making some 'pretense to bind the throng around the stick, he suddenly fixed his eyes firmly and obruptly apparently upon some objeat behind the man who stood near him, The Chinaman obeyed the natural instince: he half tutted in the sante direation. Ifistantly the noose was around his neck, • enclosing throat and pigtail with a terrible strength : whilst the Englishman, with knee and left heuti, bold. the man from him, whilst his rigite, without mercy, expended its desperate force upon the thong. There was Ito cry I suspension of breath had been instantuneons. The man moved his hands wildly fora moment dr two; then their motions grew feeble, and his face blackeuecl ; and still Norris held the cord and forced theman's body frozn him with all his strength. • A wild, exultant hope leaped through him—he was free 1 for the China:nen VMS killed as surely as he would -have been had he dropped, some feet with it rope around his neck. When lie knew that the man VAS dead, Norris lost no time, butdropping the, body, hastened to the door and gained the inside of the Temple. The door on the other side stood open ; beyond that lay a space, then. another temple, through which he must pass; and what lay beyond that again Norris Mid SiOtSay., only his heart sank us he perceivedm in the anta that he wati as yet far from free. Rapidity of Dation MS MS Only eliallefi. For it moment or two he stood in the temple ; then, with an inward prayer, heloaped into the open space and dashed across it to the building beyond. As be did so, he became aware that he was seen. Two at his foes were after him, Fear bent hint speed; but the loud ery front his pursuers had gone before him, aliens he sped through the second temple, au ed its exit, another foe, met Mtn face to face. With the impetuosity with whieh he sped he dashed '014111UB 0V01`.. BO thee he fell be- fore him like a. reed ; but, as he fell, the Chinaman clutched vaguely, and caught the fugitive's ankle in hie hand, se that he was precipitated forward upon his face with l terrible force, aud inetantaneo •ee nued. (To DE CONTINBED,i some chance bear Ins message beyond the seen. lie folded the small paper carefully, ansi 08 eerefally replaced the in in the inside of his mat The only traces that renutined of his ex. psriment o.t this juncture were the presence ofa thread upon the gonad, a small folded open which for the moment he held be- tween his teeth, and the swallow wrapped inside his coat. He reached. out and took the bird gently It his hand. At the same instanttlue doorafthe temple facam him opened, and tsvo of his Chinese captmsappeared. One of these instantaneously perceived the bide The utmost clanger faced the Englislunan. His lips had closed over the fragment of paper held in his teeth. The bird WaS the suspicions point. If he hesi- tated, the bird would be taken from him, and these men wottlei begin to question how and why it bed come to he in his possession, awl to ask what he had intended to do. He knew that oue of the Chinamen saw the swallow. To conceal it, or attempt to emceed it, was ruin. Never did Norris experience such a mnment of intense agony of rapid mental conception as now. She thinainan spnke to his compeadon both had now seen the bird ; and Ncrris, actena like a cola, dean thing that scarcely knew what it was doing, took the struggling swallow- in both his hands and tore wing front wing, and thrust the living flesh and the warm feathers in a, hideous pretense be- tween his moving teeth. His heart stood stone -still; but the Chinamen saw hitn oat the living bird, and by that he was saved ! * It bad become fully evident to Norris that his freedom was not likely to be given to him, and that captivity and death only were before him. That his life would be spared for some time to conne he could well understand, since by killing him allprospect of further. monetary extortion would disappear. So that it seemed probable that so swim as the order upon his bankers was returned unpaid and as a false creation upon his part, his captors would be so much en- raged. as to proceed to extremes immediate- ly, since thus they became aware of the deceit practiced. In the mean time, if he were pressed for further sums, he decided that he should, after holding out as long as possible, give as many further orders as • might be necessary, signed with the false name. As the first of these orders had to go to England before his trick would be discover- ed, and as the news that it had been refused payment would take equally long of transit, Norris calculated that even supposing it had been sent by camel -post overland to St. Petersburg, a means frequently employe i by those living in Pekin, he might look upon it as a certainty that the reply regard. ing the ender would not reach Pekin for probalinefour months to come. , At the expiry of that time he forsaw cer- tain death—a death of the most horrible nature, unless his escape should be effected meantime. Some days had passed ere he had been able so Inc to forget the horror of the moment when, with tee two men in front of him observing his every act, he had been forced to destroy, whilst ho acted it hideous parte the only livingtie between himself and those beyond the walls; and many, tromyr hours had sped ere he could touch the food placed at regular intervals before him. A couple of rough skins had been thrown upon the ground. at the foot of the tree by one of his Chinese captors, on the day fol. lowing that on which he had signed the let- ter required—an indication; Norris took it, that although he remained a prisoner, he was not to be ill-treated. Thus was his life—by day, pacing to and fro in his place of. confinement, living upon Chinese food, and pondering vaguely upop the dim chances, of eseepe —by night sleep. he were cauglit, In the attempt, ; what mat- ter ? Was it not as food thee he sought to secure the birds? During the night-time ho 'broke from the tree, climbing it with cat -like caution in order to do R0 without noise, several branches, which, being pieeea together anti tied with ;aces of cloth torn from various parts of Ine clothing proved, although slen- der, sufficiently long to reach to the swat- lows'nests, At twat was his plan to disturb the birds, a,nd to strike them with his slender roil, as they issued from their uests ; but putting aside the difficulty of such it pro- ceeding, there remained the probability of so injuring them, that they must prove use- less; whilst on the other hand, his weapon might snap in the air, from its unwieldy length, at every attempt he made. Aban- doning this idea., he determined to endeavor to form of his coat a speolos of net, and, rough and crude as the plan may seem. it won by this means that he ultimetely suc- ceeded in ceptaring, at long intervals it is true and in the face of continued and fre- quent disappointment, severel of the swal- lows as Otey issued from the eeves of the temple. By day Im was the possessor of a number of short sticks, which with diffieulty be conceaeed from the sharp eyes of the China- man who brought his meals. At night he pieced, these together—an arduous ptocess nightly to be undergone, and then with his light coat simply extended by means of transverse stick at the top, somewhat as it might have hung on the back of a chair, he made his round of the swallows' nests, covering each with the coat whilst he endeavor ed to disturb the birds, when, with drawing it a moment that they might issue f ram their nests, he would rapidly endeavor to bring them in collision with the coat on the chance of their falling thus entangled to the ground. • . Many a weary and helpless hour did he spend in this pursuit. It seemed beyond his power to catch the swallows. Such as struck against the coat immediately there. after escaped ; and Norris noticed that the birds appeared to be growing lees in num- bers, as though frightened by him from their homes. Accordingly he devoted him- self entirely to one side of the court, lest he should frighten the whole of the birds before he should become sufficiently practiced to secure thetn. As the human mind will overcome all difficulties through dine, so Norris overcame that which had at first seemed insuperable, and one morning in tbe early dawn be caught his first bird. • From this time forth it became easier : many escaped, and disarpointment followed disappointment ; bue notwithstanding he secured an occasional bird, and these he liberated with the brief message and cry for aid written in blood and boand to the leg, in the hope that some one of his Eng- lish fellows vs, oulcl hear. In thus mance he caught and liberated ten'swallows as the days went by. - Once he recaught one of his birds with the•paper tied to its leg—a diseppointment of the severest kind, for if the birds were to linger in the Temple of Confucius for ever all had been done in vain. The eleventh bird was in some way slightly hurt in capture,besides being evi- dently young, and to Norris's dismay it proved unable to fly freely, settling upon the rocf of the temple near the edge. The sun was already advancing in the heavens, and he knew that shortly' he might expect Iris firse installment of food for the clay to arrive. He had spent a long time, on the mornino in question, before finally succeeding in capturing one of the birds, amt. the dints'. pointment on finding that it could with &acuity fly was iedeed severe. In his pree- mie suite of mind it seemed. to him that the presence of the swallow upon the roof was most dangeroue, and, late in the thormng though it was, he hastened to re -piece the This was the position in whichNorris now found himself to be placed • for it is almost needless to say that hour followed hounand day succeeded day, without the fulfillment of the promise made by the unknown re- ceiver of the false order upon the English bank. 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