The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-08-18
CHAPTER XXI.

the value Of fifteen millions, are torn
from the grasp Of the Celestials, who
yield after \ courageous defense. As to
the Passengers. another two minutes of
sleep would have settled their fate
and mine.
But that disappeared with the
- HE night Dreams are not
Faphs; they fade in the sun,
80 effacing themselves.
ing my stroll through the train
81 SYod tOwnsman takes his stroll
the town, am Joined by Major
Apltitx. After shaking hands, he show
"a me q Mongol In the second-class car,
I'D said to me, "That IL not one Of those
We picked up at Douchak when we pick
~ up 4Faruskiar and Ghanglr."
That 4 TO-" said l.; II never saw that
II thea train before"
whom applied for infor-
I'D me that the Mongol had got
Echertchen. when he arrived"
said, "the manager spoke to him for
minute, from which / concluded that
he also was one Of the staff Of the Grand
Transasiatic."
had not noticed Faruskiar during my
walk. Had he alighted at one Of the
small stations between Tchertchen and
Tcharkalyk, where we ought to have
been about / o'clock in the afternoon?
No, AZ and Ghangir were on the gang
way IL front Of our car. They seemed
to pc tn an animated conversation, and
only stopped to take good look toward
the n0rtheastern horizon. Had the Mon
gol brought some news which had made
them throw of their usual reserve and
gravity2 And I abandoned myself to my
imagination, foreseeing adventures, at
lacks Of bandits and so on, according to
my dream.
was recalled to reality by the Rev.
Nathaniel Morse, who said to me: ut
A liked for to-day; do not forget"
That meant the marriage of Fulk Eph-
rinell and Horatia Bluett. Really, was
not thinking of it. 1t is time for me to
{ 50 and dress for the occasion. AL can
VI do will be to change my shirt 1t is
enough that one of the husbands wit
neeses should be presentable; the other,
Gaterna, will be sure to be magnificent.
AZ was at 8 o'clock that this marriage
VAS to take place, announced by the bell
- Nthe tender, which was to sound full
hg MS II 1t were chapel bell. With
1ittle imagination we could believe we
Kere In village. But whittier did this
Nell Invite the witnesses and guests? Into
the dining car, which had been conven-
lentiy arranged for the ceremony, as
bad taken good care
1t was no longer dining car; it was a
hull car, If the expression is admissible
The big table had been taken away and
replaced by small table which served
as a desk. A few flowers bought at
R Tchertchen had been arranged in the
corners of the car, which was large
\ enough to hold nearly all who wished to
be present-and those who could not get
inside could look on from the gangways.
A quarter to nine. No one has yet
Been the happy couple. Miss Bluett is
In one of the toilet cabinets in the first
van, where she is probably preparing
herself. Fulk Ephrinell is perhaps
struggling with his cravat and giving a
last polish to his portable jewelry am
not anxious. We shall see them as soor
as the bell rings.
! have but one regret, and that is that
Faruskiar and Changer should be toe
busy to join us. Why do they continue
to look over the immense desert? Be
fore their eyes there stretches not the
a cultivated steppe of the Lob-Nor region
but the Cobb, which is barren, desolat,
and gloomy. 1t may be asked why thes,
people are keeping such an obstinat,
lookout.
"If my presentiments do not deceiy,
me-" said Major Noltitz. "there is som,
reason for It."
What does he mean? But the bell O
the tender, the tender bell, begins it
joyous appeal. Nine o'clock; it is time t.
70 into the dining car.
The passengers move in a procession
the four witnesses first, then the guest
from the end of the village-I mean o
the rraln; Chinese, Turkomans, Tartars
men and women, all curious to assist a
the ceremony. The four Mongols remai
on the last gangway near the treasure
which the Chinese soldiers do not leay
for an instant.
We reach the dining car. The clergy
man is seated at the little table, on whic
n the certificate of marriage he ha
prepared according to the customar
form. He looks as though he was az
customed to this sort Of thing, which
a. much commercial as matrimonial,
Here is Mr.. Fulk Ephrinell dresse
this morning just as he was dressed We.
terday, with pencil behind the lobe {
his left ear, for he has just been maxim
out an account for his New York hous
Here is Miss Horatia Bluett, as THU
az dry, as plain as ever, her dust-cloa
over her travelling gown, and in plat
of jewelry noisy bunch of keys, whic
hangs from her belt.
The company politely rise as the brio
and bridegroom enter. They mar
time" as Caterna says. Then they a,
vance toward the clergyman, who
standing with his hand resting on
Bible, open probably at the place whel