"If I Were A Spy," Demanded Fox, "Do You Suppose I Would Have Ridden
Into Your Town On A White Horse And Registered At Your Head-Quarters
And Then Ordered Four Rooms At The Principal Hotel And Accommodations
For Seven Servants, Nine Coolies, And Nineteen Animals?
Is that the
way a Russian spy works?
Does he go around with a brass band?"
The officer, unable to answer in kind this excellent reasoning, took
a mean advantage of his position by placing both John and Lynch under
arrest, and at the head of each bed a Japanese policeman to guard
their slumbers. The next morning Prior arrived with the pass, and
from the decks of the first out-bound English steamer Fox hurled
through the captain's brass speaking-trumpet our farewells to the
Japanese, as represented by the gun-boats in the harbor. Their
officers, probably thinking his remarks referred to floating mines,
ran eagerly to the side. But our ship's captain tumbled from the
bridge, rescued his trumpet, and begged Fox, until we were under the
guns of a British man-of-war, to issue no more farewell addresses.
The next evening we passed into the Gulf of Pe-chi-li, and saw above
Port Arthur the great guns flashing in the night, and the next day we
anchored in the snug harbor of Chefoo.
I went at once to the cable station to cable Collier's I was
returning, and asked the Chinaman in charge if my name was on his
list of those correspondents who could send copy collect.
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