I must not forget his interest in' Uterature. From a well-known book-store here he ordered a large number of valuable works on China and Mongolia, especially maps of the latter country, and spent much Ume poring over them and deseribing the wonders of Mongolia to the proprietor of the book-shop. And here I may perhaps be forgiven interjecting a personal note, if T say Ghat the Prince seems to have shown very good literary taste, as among the books he ordered, if perhaps forgot to pay for, was one of which Tam part author.
Meanwhile he continued todispense hospitality. But the greater his circle of acquaintances, the greater grew the questioning and doubts os to who he really was. Everybody referred {o someone else as having vouched for him, in a never-ending circle, until the anxious _hotel-manager could hardly contain him-elf from Tushing up and presenting Dill, In the end, the prince's attachment to Iterature was to be the cause of his downfall. In a casual conversation he happened to {ell the hotel-manager that he was 20 pleased with his treatment by the Turanian Embassy that in return ho had decided to present them with a copy of a very valuable work on Mongolia that had been in the possession of his family for over five hundred years. Shortly afterwards the manager, talking about the prince to the proprietor of the book-store, Jearnt that the prince had quite recently taken away with him a very valuable book on the history of Mongolia for which he was being billed one hundred and eighty dollars. 'The manager leapt into his car and rushed round to the Turanian Embassy and found the book in question lying on the table of the Military' Allaché to whom the prince had just resented this "family heirloom," out of gratitude for all that had" been done for him. That was the begin-hing of the end. The hotel bill was presented without a moment's fu ther delay. The Prince promised pay half that night and the remain der the next day, when the sale of hhis gold dust had been completed. But he forgot to do so, and as he: was giving one of his usual parties that evening, it was impossible to ress him, Early on the following morning he ordered the hotel car to wait for him fat the entrance of one of the parks 8am. But when about ten-o'clock the chauffeur rang up to say that} the Prince had not put in an appear: ante, it was found that he and his family had gone, Investigation showed that he had taken a rickshaw to the railway station. The next news was that a certain Chinese had been. arrested in Tientsin for masquerading
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