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`` I fear me that the incident is closed , '' he said . `` I would stay here one year if I thought there was a chance of seeing her again , but if she wants me to fly I guess I had better fly . '' That evening , after an earnest controversy with the manager over a very complicated bill , studded with `` extras , '' Mr. Alexander H. Pike , accompanied by dragoman , leather trunks , hat-boxes and hold-alls , drove away to the transcontinenta express , and slept soundly while crossing the dangerous frontier . Possibly he would not have slept so soundly if he had known that at four o'clock that afternoon the Princess Kalora had been idling her time in the palace garden , walking back and forth near the high wall . She had told him not to come , and of course he would not come . No one could be so audacious and foolhardy as to invite destruction after being solemnly warned -- and yet , if he _ did _ come , she wanted to be there to speak to him again and rebuke him and tell him not to come a third time . She went back to her apartment much relieved and intensely disappointed .