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Now for Kinko, my No. 11: I need hardly say that my No. 11 was married to Zinca Klork with great ceremony. We were all at the wedding, and if the Son of Heaven had richly endowed the young Roumanian, his wife received a magnificent present in the name of the passengers of the train he had saved. That is the faithful story of this journey.
There is no doubt, in our opinion, but what it will end in a wedding as soon as the train arrives. Both will have their romance of the rail. Frankly, I like that of Kinko and Zinca Klork much better. It is true the pretty Roumanian is not here!
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.
I saw myself discovered, handed over to the police, taken to prison at Merv or Bokhara, and my little Zinca waiting for me in vain; and never should I see her again, unless I resumed the journey on foot. Well, I would have resumed, yes, I would." And he said it with such an air of resolution that it was impossible not to see that the young Roumanian had unusual spirit. "Brave Kinko!" I answered.
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.
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.
"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 "
A little information concerning him, concerning Mademoiselle Zinca Klork, whence he comes, why he is going to Pekin, why he chose such a mode of transport, his provisions for the journey, how he gets into the case, his age, his trade, his birthplace, what he has done in the past, what he hopes to do in the future, etc., etc., and I have done all that a conscientious reporter can do.
"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.
The carter gave a yell at the sight of a human being who had just appeared. In an instant the crowd had gathered, the fraud was discovered, the police had run up. And what could this young Roumanian do who did not know a word of Chinese, but explain matters in the sign language? And if he could not be understood, what explanation could he give? Zinca and I ran down to him.
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