'Something had to be done for such a useful and important person, all the more when the embassy. people learned with surprise that the prince was forced to, slay at a second-class Chinese hotel. Tt was nol, carefully explained, because' he was faelually short of money, but because Mongolia, as they must know, there was no such thing as money, everything being dene by barter. Tt was merely a temporary difficulty, for apart from those horses and furs Kalgan, he had actually brought down with him game bags of gold Gust which he wes at that moment negotiating to sell to n batik here. order to" tide over "the temporary Shortage, the Military Attache advanced the psnee che hundred Gollars, while ths embassy rang up tone of.the foreign hotels here and instructed them to prepare rooms for fan important Mongol Prince who Was {0 be treated with special care and courtesy.
So the prince, with his wife and two children Geho are worth noting as they are quite an artiste touch), moved over to the hotel and proceed~ ed to make himself thoroughly at home, giving large dinner parties and making free use of the hotel motorcars, It was noted with interest that fat these parties the prince himself rover touched wine. "This he explained was because the last Living Buddha in Urga had died of drink, and so he had taken an oath never to touch wine in any form. When it was found that this, was quite tru even the slightest doubts as to his origin vanished. Only the hotel manager was slightly uneasy after some conversations with the prince Who was somewhat vague about the topography of his homeland and above all on the details of ie gold washings. "He was less worried about his being a Mongolian prince than about his being able to pay his hotel Dill, But, after all, the Embassy had vouched for him; what more could fan ordinary person want then the word of an embassy where everything 1s known?
The Prince also visited the Turanian bank, in order to enquire about the disposal of those precious bags of gold dust for which, he said, another "bank had offered him six thousand dollars. He did not produce the actual gold dust, but he was able to give such exact details. of the weight and quality, that the bank manager was able to show him by careful calculation that if melted it down, he ought to be able get_nine thousand dollars for it. The prince was delighted with this Information and then produced a sealed-up box of jewels, mostly. femeralds—one. could hear "them raliling about inside—which he wished to place in safe custody with the dank. At the same time he requested 'a'small Joan (o tide him over, until he had disposed of the gold dust. The manager advanced him. a hundred dollars or s0, for he could do nothing else in face of such strong official recommendations, and, anyhow, there were those jewels as security. Before leaving, the prince invited the manager, who was a keen hunter, to Join-him at his place in Mongolia where he would shooting as he wanted lime the news of thi and wealthy prince spread among the Turanian community and he became a such-sought after personage. At his dinner-parties he was always evelvipg fresh Schemes for Benefiting his Turanian friends, such asa Mongolian-Turanian College which was going to establish Legation Quarter and for which he would. require. Turanian teachers. Then there was his valuable collec tion of Russian and Japanese political documents, for which he asked his friends to find him suitable trans-Intors. Soon he was being whelmed with letters from offering. their services, so that he even talked of finding a secretary.
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