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Updated: June 14, 2025
Dawn appeared in the east when the two wagons were found a kilometre off, and the train gently slowed up to them after an hour's run. Faruskiar and Ghangir went to help in coupling on the vans, which was done as firmly as possible. Major Noltitz and I noticed that they exchanged a few words with the other Mongols.
No. 8, Sir Francis Trevellyan, and No. 12, Seigneur Faruskiar: I have never heard of the one who owes me an apology and a cigar, nor have I 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.
"Be ready to repulse an attack." "Is it Ki-Tsang and his gang that we have to do with?" I asked. Ki-Tsang! The name spread among the passengers and caused inexpressible terror. The major said to me in a low voice: "Why Ki-Tsang? Why not my lord Faruskiar?" "He the manager of the Transasiatic?"
Yes! To-morrow, as soon as we are at Pekin. After all, if I do not say anything about Kinko, I may at least denounce Faruskiar and Ghangir and the four Mongols.
The morning after I arrived in the Chinese capital I received a telegram thus worded, in reply to the one I had sent from Lan-Tcheou: Claudius Bombarnac, Pekin, China. Twentieth Century requests its correspondent, Claudius Bombarnac, to present its compliments and respects to the heroic Seigneur Faruskiar.
I 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 haughty Mongol could be. "Ah!" said I, laughing at the thought which crossed my mind, "if that is " "Who?" asked the major. "The chief of the brigands, the famous Ki-Tsang."
Twenty guests have been invited to this railway love feast, and, first of them, my lord Faruskiar. But for some reason or other he has declined Ephrinell's invitation. I am sorry for it, for I hoped that good luck would place me near him.
And then at his orders the Mongols had set to work, and I noticed that they displayed indefatigable ardor, for which they earned our sincere felicitations. Meanwhile Faruskiar and Ghangir were often talking together in a whisper, and from these interviews arose a proposition which none of us expected.
Besides, as will be seen immediately, there was somebody else whose just suspicions had been changed into certainty, who only awaited his opportunity to denounce Faruskiar. We are now standing at the head of the train, Major Noltitz, the German baron, Caterna, Ephrinell, Pan-Chao, Popof, about twenty travelers in all.
"What a hand and what an eye!" said I to the major, who continued to look on Faruskiar with suspicion. Among the other animals of the Pamirian fauna appeared wolves and foxes, and flocks of those large wild sheep with gnarled and gracefully curved horns, which are known to the natives as arkars.
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