The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-11

to make up that which is vernacularly
called ''the cart road to Pekin," Princess
Yu Tu said:
JACKIE, dee-ah, how soon makee my
sellub gettee down?"
Pretty soon. L fancy" replied Mr.. Muir
ray, with an internal addendum that ran
and may l be - If l ever get I'D
again!''
And pretty soon they did Chamber to
the earth, for they had reached the mud
village Of Ma Tzun. 1t was midnight
and here the caravan rested until dawn.
There was an inn, Ray a street full of
inns, each inn full in every description
Of living things that crawl, and is small:
on the wall of the first inn Murray and
the princess again beheld the fatal pIa-
card. In good sooth Reuter- has estab-
lished q remarkably fine teIegraphic
service over Chipa. although there are
but 400 miles of railroad in an empire of
100000 square miles. A filthy official of
some sort challenged them at once. and
only consented to let them go after Mur-
ray had paid him a round commission
and told more lies about his devotion to
BUddha, the genii and ancestors than he
hoped soon to be forgiven for.
They entered the inn; they partook of
sea-slugs, bamboo shoots and tea Muir
ray said his master must push on thar
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his ances tors near Nation at sunrise His
master would hire a cart and mules and
princess he had warbled for the previous
SpringlesS boards within, Murray and the
man; did hire them, and, one mule hitch
ed in the shafts five others strung out
abreast, fan-fashion. forty feet ahead.
| the driver perched on the shafts on the
| evening started out of the inn yard amid
! the camelS chewing their cud, and made.
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At the end of two hours, by dawn, they
! had accomplished a third OF the journey
! AS has been intimated. the highways OF
! the FloWery Kingdom are not macadam-
| lied. AS the sun began to rise behind
| them something else rose with it out Of
the east-a cloud, q whirl, a continent Of
| dust, flashing in the new beams like
| showers of gems. Out of this splendid
| cloud there came horsemen, one, fatter
| than the rest, in the lead, and as they
! drew near the princess raised herself on
! her elbow and said; Jack, dee-ah, my
/ honorable father arrives to kill me-
"Oh, MOI" exclaimed Murray, spring.
/ ing to his feet. pitching the driver out
into a mudhOle up to his neck Selling
the reins and flashing the mules until
/ they flew hike the wind; and the horse
! men also flew alter them The mules
! plunged covering the excessively diver
! sited road with their spread-out; the
! horsemen yelIed as none but the Mon
! golian can yell; the princess sat bump
! ing in the cart, and Murray stood out
! on the shaft like circus rider, with one
! foot on the wheel mule, as he threw
! the leather as far as he could But the
! horsemen were galning-had overtaken
! them.
The plum leader dashed In front OF the
mule IAN, with his spear upli1ted, caus-
ing the five to rear and tumble back mo
q tangle with the wheeler, While the tol-
lowers of the prince came swarmrng up
like so many bees, one waving the gown
of the princess on his pike, anoLner The
shed European coat of Murray, as proofs
of their double guilt. But Murray had
not been a rough rider for nothing He
greeted the return movement Of ais five
beasts with a grin Of delight, eprang to
the back OF the center mule, cried 10 the
princess IN Chinese, Keep still" fired
off one of his pistols in the air, dug his
heels into the sides of his mount. thus
setting the whole string kicking, snortlng,
bounding out again to the length of their
tether, tumbling the father of the prin-
cess off into the pool, frightening his fol-
lowers out of their wits, and scattering
them over the swampy ricelands as any
such snow of puck and shot always will
the curious Chinese. and causing the eyes
of Princess Ytf Flu to grow as big as
sman saucers. her legs to tremble, her
heart to throb co+lSulsively; but her lips
only murmured;S ''fa Moor and she was
steadfast as is4fae needle to the pole.
''Houp la! tnson!' shouted Murray
IS his big Chiaese- hat flew off and the
er.l~nd:7 sun -8Iehed up his blond ioeks
into god On! on!' he goaded the
0etl- eo-apareu 20 cherub beside the