16th May, 7 p.m.
`` Yen Lou , the great mandarin Yen Lou of Pekin . '' `` Thank you , Popof . '' I rush to the telegraph office , and from there I send a telegram to the _ Twentieth Century _ . `` Merv , 16th May , 7 p.m. `` Train , Grand Transasiatic , just leaving Merv . Took from Douchak the body of the great mandarin Yen Lou coming from Persia to Pekin . '' It cost a good deal , did this telegram , but you will admit it was well worth its price . The name of Yen Lou was immediately communicated to our fellow travelers , and it seemed to me that my lord Faruskiar smiled when he heard it .