The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-07-12

of the courage of kinko. of the sacrifice
he had made fof the safety of the trav-
elers, and finally, as 4 supreme argument
he pleaded that his client had saved the
imperial treasure.
Arguments were Of no avail with this
pitiless magistrate who had not acquit-
ted ten prisoners in his life. He spared
the delinquent the b~astinado; but gave
him six months in prison, and condemn
ed him in damages against the Grand
Transasiatic Company. And then, at a
sign from this condemning machine, poor
kinko was taken away.
Let not my readers pity kinko's fate,
| may as well say at once that every
thing was arranged satisfactorily. e
morning Kinko made a triumphal entry
into the house in the Avenue Cha-Coua,
where we were assembled while Madame
Caterna was showering her maternal con-
solutions on the unhappy Zinca klork.
The newspapers had got wind of the
affair. The Chi Bao, of Pekin, and the
Chinese Times. of Tien-tsin, had demand
ed mercy for the young Roumanlan.
These cries for mercy had reached the
feet of the Son of Heaven-the very spot
where the imperial ears are placed. Be-
sides, Pan Chao had sent to his majesty
a petition relating the incidents of the
journey, and insisting on the point that
had it not been for Kinko's devotion, the
gold and precious stones would be in the
hands Of Faruskiar and his bandits. And
that was worth something else than six
months in prison. In a fit of generosity
the Son of Heaven favored Kinko with
the remittal of his sentence.
! decline to depict the JOY, the happi-
ness, the intoxication which this news,
brought by Kinko in person, gave to all
his friends, and particularly to the fair
Zinca Klork. These things are ex-
pressible in no languagc-not even in
Chinese, which lends itself so generous
ly to the ~metaphorical.
And now, my readers must permit me
to finish with my travelling companions
whose numbers have figured in my note
book.
Nos. l and 2, Fulk Ephrinell and Miss
Horatia Bluett: Not being able TO agree
regarding the various items stipulated
in their matrimonial contract, they were
divorced three days after their arrival
in Pekin. Things were as though the
marriage had never been celebrated on
the Grand Transasiatic. and Miss Hora-
tia Bluett remained Miss Horatia Bluett.
May she gather cargoes of heads of hair
from Chinese polls; and may he furnish
with artificial teeth every jaw in the
Celestial Empire!
No. 3, Major Noltitz: He is busy at
the hospital he has come to esta blish at
Pckin on behalf of the Russian govern
ment, and when the hour for separation
strikes, / feel that | shall leave n true
friend behind me in these distant lands.
Nos. A and ), the Caternas: After a
stay of three weeks in the capital of the
Celestial Empire, the charming actor
and actress set out for Shanghai. where
they are now the great attraction at the
French Residency.
No. 6, Baron Observation-Disclosures,
whose incommensurable name | write for
the last time: Well, not only did the
globe trotter miss the steamer at Tien-
tsin. but a month later he missed it at
Yokohama; six weeks after that he was
shipwrecked on the coast of British Co
lumbia, and then, after being thrown
off the line between San Francisco and
New York, he managed to complete his
round of the world in a hundred and
eighty-seven days instead of thirty-nine.
Nos. 8 and 10, Pan Chao and DR.. Tio-
King: What can | say except that Pan
Chao is always the Partisan you know.
As to the doctor. he has got down to
eating only the yolk of an egg a day,
like his master. Cornaro, and he hopes
to live to a hundred and two, as did the
noble Venetian.
No. s, Sir Francis Trevellyan, and No.
II, Seigneur Faruskiar: l have never
heard of the one, nor have | heard that
the other has been hanged. Doubtless,
the illustrious bandit. having sent in his
resignation of the general managership
of the Grand Transasiatic. continues his
lucrative career in the depths of the
Mongol provinces.
Now for Kinko. my No. IL: I need
hardly say that my No. II was married
to Iinca klork with great We
We're all at the wedding. and if the Son
of Heaven had not richly endowed the
young Roumanian. his wife received a
magnificent present in the name of the
passengers of the trai- he had saved.
That is the faithful story of this jour
ney. / have done my best to do my duty
as special correspondent all down the
line. and perhaps my editors may be
satisfied, Notwithstanding the slip or two
you have heard about.
H Ivsl