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Must I have recourse to the German baron? No! he is merely ridiculous, stupidly ridiculous, and he has no interest for me. I return to my idea: I want a hero, and up to the present no hero has appeared on the scene. Evidently the moment has come to enter into more intimate relations with Faruskiar. Perhaps he will not now be so close in his incognito. We are under his orders, so to say.
The travelers in their van, like themselves, had not noticed when the coupling broke. It might be an hour, two hours, since the accident. What ought to be done was clear enough. The train must be run backward and pick up the lost vans. Nothing could be more simple. But and this surprised me the behavior of my lord Faruskiar seemed very strange.
"Guard," said Faruskiar, addressing Popof, "it is my opinion that we had much better run on to Tcharkalyk than go back; it would suit the passengers much better." "Certainly, sir, it would be preferable," said Popof; "but the line is broken between here and Tcharkalyk, and we cannot get through." "Not at present, but we could get the cars through if we could temporarily repair the line."
My lord Faruskiar, followed by Ghangir, then arrived before the man in spectacles, who looked at him with a certain amount of attention. Major Noltitz and I watched him. How would he submit to this examination? Perhaps we were to be undeceived regarding him. But what was our surprise and even our stupefaction at the dramatic outburst which at once took place!
But the Grand Transasiatic will not know. During the stoppage Faruskiar and Ghangir are walking on the platform and looking at the train. But it is not the van at the rear that is attracting their attention, but the van in front, and they seem to be much interested in it. Are they suspicious of Kinko? No! the hypothesis is unlikely.
Faruskiar, my hero I cannot call him anything else displays extraordinary intrepidity, bearing himself the boldest in the struggle, and when he had exhausted his revolver, using his kandijar like a man who had often faced death and never feared it. Already there were a few wounded on both sides, perhaps a few dead among the passengers who lay on the line.
For ten minutes or so the battle continues with most alarming alternations. The number of wounded on both sides increases, and the issue is still doubtful. Faruskiar and Ghangir and the Mongols have been driven back toward the precious van, which the Chinese guard have not left for an instant.
I told them how I had overheard the plan of Faruskiar and his Mongols, when it was too late to stop it, but I was silent regarding the intervention of Kinko. The moment had not come, and I would do him justice in due time. To my words there succeeded a chorus of maledictions and menaces. What! This seigneur Faruskiar, this superb Mongol, this functionary we had seen at work! No! It was impossible.
Faruskiar has defended the imperial treasure against Ki-Tsang to keep it from the chief of the bandits who stopped the train, whose attack would have interfered with his criminal projects! That is why he had fought so bravely. That is why he had risked his life and behaved like a hero. And thou, poor beast of a Claudius, how thou hast been sold! Another howler! Think of that, my friend!
"The manager of the company who so courageously drove off the bandits and killed their chief Ki-Tsang with his own hand?" Then I entered on the scene. "The major is not mistaken. It was Faruskiar who laid this fine trap for us." And amid the general stupefaction I told them what I knew, and what good fortune had enabled me to ascertain.
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