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.

Consequently I have a great desire to tell him of my expedition into the baggage van.
But the secret is not mine.

I must do nothing that might get Kinko into trouble.
And so I am silent, and to-night I will, if possible, take a few provisions to my packing case--to my snail in his shell, let us say.
And is not the young Roumanian like a snail in his shell, for it is as much as he can do to get out of it?
We reach Khodjend about three in the afternoon.

The country is fertile, green, carefully cultivated.

It is a succession of kitchen gardens, which seem to be well-kept immense fields sown with clover, which yield four or five crops a year.