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And ` Matador ' means ` Introduce yourself to ' and ` Carmen ' means ` Have notified him you are coming . ' '' `` Me the diplomat ! '' said Jimmy with a sigh , now opening a time table . And again he was not particularly happy , because Yimville was a mountain town up in another county , and the sole train he could take with any degree of comfort was one that would land him at his destination at one o'clock . A returning passenger train at 4:30 in the evening would bring him back to his junction but it meant the loss of an entire day . It was strange how much more important time had become to him -- that is -- how much keener he was to return to New York at the earliest possible moment . He had even begun the formation of a scheme whereby he had hoped to steal two whole days out of his trip , and that , too , without the knowledge of his firm .