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But when my box is in the railway station at Pekin, I have still to get to the Avenue Cha-Coua " "What does it matter, will not the fair Zinca Klork come and call for it?" "No. I advised her not to do so." "And why?" "Women are so impressionable! She would want to see the van in-which I had come, she would claim the box with such excitement that suspicions would be aroused.
And I, with a word, am about to extinguish this joy. I am to wither that smile. Mademoiselle Klork is evidently much surprised at seeing a stranger in her doorway. As she has lived several years in France, she does not hesitate to recognize me as a Frenchman, and asks to what she is indebted for my visit. I must take care of my words, for I may kill her, poor child. "Mademoiselle Zinca " I say.
I may as well say at once that everything was arranged satisfactorily. Next morning Kinko made a triumphal entry into the house in the Avenue Cha-Coua, where we were assembled, while Madame Caterna was showering her maternal consolations on the unhappy Zinca Klork. The newspapers had got wind of the affair.
"The proposal does you honor, Caroline," said the actor, putting his hand in his pocket. "Gentlemen," said pretty Zinca Klork, her eyes bathed in tears, "do save him before he is sentenced " "Yes, my darling," said Madame Caterna, "yes, my heart, we will save your sweetheart for you, and if a benefit performance "
With this indication nothing could be easier than to find the dwelling of Mademoiselle Zinca Klork, but nothing more difficult to reach, considering the block in the roads in this outer ring. A little before twelve I arrived at my destination. My vehicle had stopped before a house of modest appearance, occupied by artisans as lodgings, and as the signboard said more particularly by strangers.
It was worth 15,000 taels, that is to say, more than 100,000 francs, and in a fit of generosity the Son of Heaven remitted these to Kinko with the remittal of his sentence. I decline to depict the joy, the happiness, the intoxication which this news brought by Kinko in person, gave to all his friends, and particularly to the fair Zinca Klork.
The important thing was to find a hotel in which one could live passably. From information received I was led to believe that the hotel of Ten Thousand Dreams, near the railway station, might be sufficiently in accord with Western notions. As to Mademoiselle Klork, I will postpone my visit till to-morrow.
But for what does Miss Zinca Klork, this pretty for the Roumanian ought to be pretty, and she is certainly a Roumanian for what does she want a wild beast sent in this way? Let us think about it and be reasonable. This animal, whatever it may be, must eat and drink. From the time it starts from Uzon Ada it will take eleven days to cross Asia, and reach the capital of the Celestial Empire.
"Four years in Paris, where I was apprentice to an upholsterer in the Faubourg Saint Antoine." "And you went back to Bucharest?" "Yes, to work at my trade there until the day came when it was impossible for me to resist the desire to leave " "To leave? Why?" "To marry!" "To marry Mademoiselle Zinca " "Zinca?" "Yes, Mademoiselle Zinca Klork, Avenue Cha-Coua, Pekin, China!" "You know?" "Certainly.
It was all Faruskiar's fault, and were it only for having wrecked my reportorial endeavors he ought to be hanged by the most fantastic executioner in China. Nothing happened for the rest of our run. I was very sorry at the thought that I was not bringing Kinko along with me, and that his box was empty. And he had asked me to accompany him to Mademoiselle Zinca Klork!
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