The custom-house officers are about to visit it, and I tremble for poor Kinko.
It is evident that the fraud has not been discovered yet, for there would have been a great stir at the news.

Suppose the case is passed?
Will its position be shifted?
Will it be put hind side before or upside down?
Kinko will not then be able to get out, and that would be a complication.
The Chinese officers have come out of the van and shut the door, so that I cannot give a glance into it.

The essential point is that Kinko has not been caught in the act.

As soon as possible I will enter the van, and as bankers say, "verify the state of the safe." Before getting into our car, Major Noltitz asks me to follow him to the rear of the train.
The scene we witness is not devoid of interest; it is the giving over of the corpse of the mandarin Yen Lou by the Persian guards to a detachment of soldiers of the Green Standard, who form the Chinese gendarmerie.

The defunct passes into the care of twenty Celestials, who are to occupy the second-class car in front of the mortuary van.