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secured him before he had time to pull himself 

 together. He was locked up in Samarkand, and 

 then arose the question, What was to be done 

 with him ? The matter had been duly reported 

 to the English and Russian Governments, and 

 Bower was now waiting for orders. How long 

 he would be kept was hard to say. The man 

 would be sent back either through Russia or 

 Chinese Turkistan, and, whichever way he went, 

 Bower would have charge of him. 



In the afternoon, Monsieur Teutsh, then acting 

 as Russian Consul, and the Rev. Father Hen- 

 dricks, a missionary who had resided in China 

 and Mongolia for most of his life, came to call, 

 and asked us over to the Consulate. There we 

 met an officer of the Cossacks on guard at the 

 Consulate, also a Polish gentleman who had taken 

 up his residence at Kashgar. These formed the 

 whole of the European society of the town. 



We had a great talk in the evening over future 

 proceedings. Bower was unfortunately tied by 

 the leg until he got his orders, and even then 

 shooting was out of the question for him ; whilst 

 I was very much divided in my own mind as to 

 what I should do. In any case, I should return 

 to the Pamirs for some more poli ; but whether 



