Now I learn that my opponents have been tracking me steadily for half a year.

The one fact which stands out clearly above all others during the past forty-eight hours is the phenomenal range and completeness of Wong Li Fu's plans." "I didn't mean my comment as a reproach, dear," and Mrs.Forbes gave him a look which told plainly that these two were lovers after many years of wedded happiness.

"Thank God, we have all escaped--thus far!" "Oh, mother," laughed Evelyn nervously, "you are not anticipating more horrors, are you ?" "A few hours ago I would have scoffed at any one who said that a handful of Chinese could tear aside our cloak of civilized security as though it were a spider's web," was the serious reply.

"But I have interrupted my own story.

I began to think that I would be taken to some awful den in the East End, and held there till some huge sum of money was paid by way of ransom, when the car suddenly quitted the main road and bumped over a rough surface.