And the same I shall hope to explain”—another time.
Comic opera with a dash of mysticism seems about a fair description of things up to now. More, when I’ve time to write.
By the way, couldn’t you manage to leave Wall Street and the dollar raking process for a while and meet me on my return? I mean to go on from Khiva through India to China. Come and lunch with me, say in Pekin, and have a time among the pigtails. Wire me at our Legation and our people will forward to me. Seriously, you might do many things worse. Your old friend,
Harper C. Denver.
N.B.—I’m not monkeying about the Pekin business. Come and meet me like the good fellow you are, and hang Wall Street.
H. C. D.
Chapter II—PRINCE KALKOV’S PROPOSITION
“YOU mean seriously that I am to impersonate His Majesty?”