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Updated: June 22, 2025
Hide nothing from me Kinko " "Yes I have sad news to give you." She is fainting. Her lips tremble. She can hardly speak. "He has been discovered!" she says. "His fraud is known they have arrested him " "Would to heaven it was no worse. We have had accidents on the road. The train was nearly annihilated a frightful catastrophe " "He is dead! Kinko is dead!"
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.
He turned on the greatest possible draught, the air roared across the furnace, the pressure goes up, up, amid the heaving of the motion, the bellowings of the boiler, the beating of the pistons. We are going a hundred kilometres an hour. "Get back!" shouts Kinko above the roar. "Get back into the van." "And you, Kinko?" "Get back, I tell you."
The Russian locomotives, which have brought us from Uzun-Ada, have been replaced by a Chinese locomotive, burning not naphtha but coal, of which there are large deposits in Turkestan, and stores at the chief stations along the line. My first care is to look in at the front van. The custom-house officers are about to visit it, and I tremble for poor Kinko.
"By relating, as soon as I can do so without danger to you, the particulars of your journey from Tiflis to Pekin. Think now what a heading for a column: 'A LOVER IN A BOX! ZINCA AND KINKO!! 1,500 LEAGUES THROUGH CENTRAL ASIA IN A LUGGAGE VAN!!!" The young Roumanian could not help smiling. "You need not be in too much of a hurry!" he said. "Never fear!
"Monsieur," says mademoiselle, "we are going to get married as soon as the formalities are complied with; and if it is not abusing your confidence, will you do us the honor and pleasure of being present?" "At your marriage certainly. I promised my friend Kinko I would." Poor girl! I cannot leave her like this. I must tell her everything. "Mademoiselle Zinca Kinko "
"That you will be present at the departure of the case, so as to avoid any mistake." "I will be there, Kinko, I will be there. Glass fragile, I will see that they don't handle it too roughly. And if you like I will accompany the case to Avenue Cha-Coua " "I hardly like to ask you to do that " "You are wrong, Kinko. You should not stand on ceremony with a friend, and I am yours, Kinko.
Having no fear of being noticed amid the confusion which followed the attack, I went into the luggage van to assure myself that Kinko was safe and sound, to tell him what had passed, to caution him on no account to come put of his box. He promised me, and I was at ease regarding him. It was nearly three o'clock when we began work. The rails had been shifted for about a hundred yards.
I do not believe I am in danger of being discovered, unless at the Chinese frontier or rather at Kachgar." "And why?" "The custom house is very keen on goods going into China. I am afraid they will come round the packages, and that my box " "In fact, Kinko," I replied, "there are a few difficult hours for you." "If they find me out?"
Kinko has been the victim of his sacrifice. And so there has been a hero among our traveling companions, and he was not this Faruskiar, this abominable bandit hidden beneath the skin of a manager, whose name I have so stupidly published over the four corners of the globe!
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