three o'clock
I have not seen Kinko for two days , and the last was only to exchange a few words with him to relieve his anxiety . To-night I will try and visit him . I have taken care to lay in a few provisions at Sou-Tcheou . We started at three o'clock . We have got a more powerful engine on . Across this undulating country the gradients are occasionally rather steep . Seven hundred kilometres separate us from the important city of Lan-Tcheou , where we ought to arrive to-morrow morning , running thirty miles an hour .