As to me, after spending three weeks in Pekin, I returned to France by
sea.
And now I have to make a confession, which is very painful to my
self-esteem. The morning after I arrived in the Chinese capital I
received a telegram thus worded, in reply to the one I had sent from
Lan-Tcheou:
_Claudius Bombarnac,
Pekin, China._
_Twentieth Century requests its correspondent, Claudius Bombarnac, to
present its compliments and respects to the heroic Seigneur Faruskiar_.
But I always say that this telegram never reached him, so that he has
been spared the unpleasantness of having to reply to it.
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