The Yellow Pearl: A Story of the East and the West

A STORY OF THE EAST AND THE WEST
ADELINE M. TESKEY
Author of Where the Sugar Maple Grows, etc.
HODDER AND STOUGHTON NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
Copyright, 1911 , By George H. Doran Company

THE YELLOW PEARL —— ADELINE M. TESKEY

THE YELLOW PEARL
Here I am in this strange country about which I have learned in the geography and history, and about which I heard my father talk. The daughter of an American man and a Chinese woman, I suppose I am what is called a mongrel. My father was a Commissioner of Customs in China, and living for years in that country he fell in love with my mother and married her—as was natural. Who could help falling in love with my dear, yellow, winsome, little mother? My name is Margaret, called after my father's mother; my father said that the word Margaret means a pearl, so he gave me the pet name Pearl. Dear father!