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Updated: June 22, 2025
By favor of this troubled night I was able to communicate with Kinko, to take him some provisions and to have a few minutes' conversation with him. "Is it the day after to-morrow," he asked, "that we arrive at Pekin?" "Yes, the day after to-morrow, if the train is not delayed." "Oh, I am not afraid of delays!
"Ah!" said he, with a sigh. "They are not obliged to wait until they reach Pekin!" "Quite so, Kinko; but it seems to me that a marriage under such conditions is not likely to be lasting! But after all, that is the couple's lookout." At three o'clock in the morning we stopped forty minutes at Tchertchen, almost at the foot of the ramifications of the Kuen Lun.
To call in the Avenue Cha Coua before the delivery of the unhappy case to Mademoiselle Zinca Klork. I arise. Ah! If Kinko had not succumbed, I should have returned to the railway station I should have assisted, as I had promised, in the unloading of the precious package.
As I have said, the night is very dark, without moon, without stars. Long clouds are creeping across the lower zones of the atmosphere. It will be easy for me to enter the van without being noticed. And I have not been too liberal in my visits to Kinko during these twelve days on the road. At this moment Popof says to me: "Are you not going to sleep to-night, Monsieur Bombarnac?"
"My Zinca my dear Zinca!" he exclaims, pressing the girl to his heart. "My Kinko my dear Kinko!" she replies, while her tears mingle with his. "Monsieur Bombarnac!" says the poor fellow, appealing for my intervention. "Kinko," I reply, "take it coolly, and depend on me. You are alive, and we thought you were dead." "But I am not much better off!" he murmurs. Mistake!
This living China figure gave us to understand that from a certain point of view it would have been better to regret the deaths of a hundred victims Yes! We knew that! Perish the colonies and all the passengers rather than a principle! In short, we got nothing. Justice must take its course against the fraudulent Kinko.
There I find Major Noltitz and the Caternas, and by a lucky chance young Pan-Chao, without Dr. Tio-King. Pan-Chao would like nothing better than to be our interpreter before the Chinese authorities. And then, before the weeping Zinca, I told my companions all about Kinko, how he had traveled, how I had made his acquaintance on the journey.
As soon as we are on the move I begin to think of Kinko. His little love romance has touched me to the heart. This sweetheart who sent himself off this other sweetheart who is going to pay the expenses I am sure Major Noltitz would be interested in these two turtle doves, one of which is in a cage; he would not be too hard on this defrauder of the company, he would be incapable of betraying him.
Without it, what would become of the eloquence of our legislators?" I have not seen Kinko for two days, and the last was only to exchange a few words with him to relieve his anxiety. To-night I will try and visit him. I have taken care to lay in a few provisions at Sou-Tcheou. We started at three o'clock. We have got a more powerful engine on.
We were lost, we should have perished in the most horrible of deaths if Kinko had not been there! I went back on to the line, my heart heavy, my eyes full of tears. Assuredly Faruskiar's scheme in the execution of which he had executed his rival Ki-Tsang had been cleverly contrived in utilizing this branch line leading to the unfinished viaduct.
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