We were to start again at eleven o'clock in the morning.

Five hours only to wait and the town some distance from the railway station! If the one were not connected with the other by a Decauville--a French name that sounds well in Sogdiana--time would fail for having even a slight glimpse of Bokhara.
It is agreed that the major will accompany me on the Decauville; and when we reach our destination he will leave me to attend to his private affairs.

I cannot reckon on him.

Is it possible that I shall have to do without the company of any of my numbers?
Let us recapitulate.

My Lord Faruskiar?
Surely he will not have to worry himself about the mandarin Yen Lou, shut up in this traveling catafalque! Fulk Ephrinell and Miss Horatia Bluett?
Useless to think of them when we are talking about palaces, minarets, mosques and other archaeological inutilities.