Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-07-14

And so Fan Cha0 speaks French.
What do l say? Better than French. He
speaks Partisan. Most extraordinary l
must have a talk with him.
CHAPTER IN.
For an hour the train is running
through an oasis. We shall soon be in
the open desert. 1t is half past 10.
Breakfast will soon be served in the din
ing car.
Where is Ephrinell2 1 do not see him
at his post by the side of Miss Horatia
Bluett, whom questioned on the subject
after saluting her politely.
Mr.. Ephrinell has gone to give an
eye to his cases." she replies.
In the rear Of the second car Faru-
skiar and Changer have installed them
selves. They are alone at this moment
and are talking together In low tone.
AS l return l meet Ephrinell, who Is
coming back to his travelling companion.
He shakes my hand, Yankee fashion. l
tell him that Miss Horatia Bluett has
given me news of him.
"OhP' says he what a woman yon-
derl what a splendid saleswomanl One
of those English"
"Who are good enough to be Ameri-
cans" l add
wait bitv' he replies, with a signi-
fcant smile.
AS 1 am going out, 1 notice that the
two Cinnamon are already in the dining
car, and that DR.. Tio-King's little book
is on the table.
l do not consider 1t too much of a lib
erty for a reporter to pick up this little
book, to open it, and to read the title,
which is as follows:
The Temperate and Regular Life;
Or, The
Art of Living Long in Perfect Health.
Translated
From the italian of Louis Cornaro,
a Venetian Noble"
And this is the favorite reading of DIR.
Tio-Kingl And that is why his disre-
spectful pupil occasionally gives him the
nickname of Conarol
There is no change in. the order in
which we sit down to breakfast. l find
myself close to Major Noltitz, who is
looking attentively at Faruskiar and his
companion, placed at the extremity of
the table. We are asking ourselves who
this naughty Mongol could be.
"Ah!' said l, laughing at the thought
which crossed my mind, 'if that is"
"WhoT' asked the major.
The chief of the brigands, the famous
Ki-Tsang."
Have your joke, Monsieur Bombar-
mac, but under your breath, 1 advise
your
You see, major, he would then be an
interesting parsonage, and worth a long
interview"
After breakfast I went to smoke my
cigar on the platform behind the dining
car. Caterna almost Immediately joins
me. Evidently the estimable comedian
has seized the opportunity to enter into
conversation with me.
Sir" said he to me, "are two French
men going all the way from Baku to
Pekin without making each others ac-
quaintancef"
"Sir," l replied, when l meet COM
patriot am only too glad to shake hands
with him. And so, Monsieur Caterna-''
you know my name?"
AS you know mine, l am sure"
"Of course, Monsieur Claudius Bonn
barnac, correspondent of the Twentieth
Century"
Eat your SERVICE believe me-"
"A thousand thanks, Monsieur Bonn
barnac, and even ten thousand, as they
say in China, whittier Madame Caterna
and l are bound"
ITO appear at Shanghai In the French
| troupe at the resfdency. L may add,
from sundry nautical phrases have no.
ticed, that you have been to sea-"
Il believe you, sir. Formerly cock
swain of Admiral de Boissondy's launch
on board the Redoubtable."
At this point Nine. Caterna came up.
She was in every way worthy of her
husband, sent into the world to reply to
him in life as on the stage, one of those
genial theater folks born one knows not
where or how, but thoroughly genuine
and good-natured.
II beg to introduce you to Caroline
Caterna," said the actor, in much the
same tone as he would have introduced
me to Patti or Sarah Bernhard.
Having shaken hands with your hus-
band" said 1, II shall be happy to shake
hands with you, Madame Caterna."
''There you are, then" said the ac-
tress, ''and without ceremony, foot to
the front and no prompting"
'As you see, no nonsense about her
and the best of wives"
''As he is the best of husbands"
81 believe l am, Monsieur Claudius, u
said the actor, land why? Because
believe that marriage consists entirely
In the precept to which husbands should
always conform, and that is, that what
the wife likes the husband should eat
often"
(To be continued.l