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Updated: June 14, 2025
They are armed with guns and revolvers, and commanded by an officer. "Well," said I to the major, "this mandarin must be some very exalted personage if the Son of Heaven sends him a guard of honor " "Or of defence," replies the major. Faruskiar and Ghangir assist at these proceedings, in which there is nothing surprising.
After shaking hands, he showed me a Mongol in the second-class car, and said to me, "That is not one of those we picked up at Douchak when we picked up Faruskiar and Ghangir." "That is so," said I; "I never saw that face in the train before." Popof, to whom I applied for information, told me that the Mongol had got in at Tchertchen.
But they had to give in to the evidence. I had seen; I had heard; I affirmed that Faruskiar was the author of this catastrophe in which all our train might have perished, was the most consummate bandit who had ever disgraced Central Asia! "You see, Monsieur Bombarnac," said Major Noltitz, "that I was not mistaken in my first suspicion."
And I, who wanted "incident," who feared the weariness of a monotonous voyage of six thousand kilometres, in the course of which I should not meet with an impression or emotion worth clothing in type! I have made another muddle of it, I admit! My lord Faruskiar, of whom I had made a hero by telegraph for the readers of the Twentieth. Century.
The plan was possible, and if there were a few rails useless, we could bring to the front those we had already run over, and in this way get over the difficulty. Evidently this Faruskiar is a man, he is our true chief, he is the personage I was in want of, and I will sound his name over the entire universe in all the trumpets of my chronicle!
I was turning to go out of the van, when an exclamation kept me back. "The signal there is the signal!" says Ghangir. "And now the train is on the Nanking branch!" replies Faruskiar. The Nanking branch? But then we are lost. At five kilometres from here is the Tjon viaduct in course of construction, and the train is being precipitated towards an abyss.
"Train attacked between Tchertchen and Tcharkalyk by the gang of the celebrated Ki-Tsang; travelers repulsed the attack and saved the Chinese treasure; dead and wounded on both sides; chief killed by the heroic Mongol grandee Faruskiar, general manager of the company, whose name should be the object of universal admiration." If this telegram does not gratify the editor of my newspaper, well
As Faruskiar remarked, it was not necessary for us to fix them permanently. That would be the task of the workmen the company would send from Tcharkalyk when we reached that station, which is one of the most important on the line. As the rails were heavy we divided ourselves into detachments. First-class and second-class, all worked together with good will. The baron displayed tremendous ardor.
For the same reason, I suppose, neither Faruskiar nor Ghangir took part in it, for they only exchanged a few words in Chinese. But I noted rather a strange circumstance which did not escape the major.
It is agreed that as soon as we arrive at Sou-Tcheou, the telegraph being repaired at the same time as the line, I will send off a despatch, which will reveal to the admiration of Europe the brilliant name of Faruskiar. We are seated at the table. Ephrinell has done the thing as well as circumstances permit. In view of the feast, provisions were taken in at Tcharkalyk.
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