Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-08-04

had 1t 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 fit of generosity
the Son of Heaven favored Kinko with
the remittal of his sentence,
1 decline to depict the joy, the happi-
ness, the intoxication which this news.
brought by Kinko in person, gave to ali
his friends, and particularly to the fair
Zinca Klork. These things are ex-
pressible in no language-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 nv note
book.
Nos. 1 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 establish at
Pekin on behalf of the Russian govern
ment, and when the hour for alton
strikes, l feel that I shall leave a true
friend behind me in these distant lands.
Nos. and 5, 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. e, Baron Observation-Disclosures.
whose incommensurabIe name T write for
the last time: Well, not only did the
globe trotter miss the steamer at Tien-
tsln, but month later he missed it at
Yokohama; six weeks after that he was
sh1pwrecked on the coast of British Co
lumbia, and then, after being thrown
OF the line between San Francisco and
New York, he managed to complete his
round OF the world in a hundred and
elghty-seven days instead of thirty nine
Nos. 9 and 10, Pan Chao and DR.. Tio-
hlng: What can l say except that Pan
Chao is always the Partisan you know.
S w 1hS OoSIoI, he HAS got QOWn to
eating only the yolk of an egg a day.
like his master, Cornaro, and he hopes
to live to hundred and two, as did the
noble Venetian.
No. 8, Sir Francis Trevellyan, and No.
II, Seigneur Faruskiar: 1 have never
heard of the one, nor have 1 heard that
the other has been hanged. Doubtless.
the 1llustrious 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: 1 need
hardly say that my No. II was married
to Zinca Klork with great ceremony. We
were all at the wedding, and if the Son
OF Heaven had not richly endowed the
young Roumanian, his wife received
magnificent present in the name of the
passengers of the train he had saved.
That is the faithful story of this Jour
ney. l 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.
CThe end.)