Just to show the baffling nature of the problem, he says that it will be absolutely impossible, on the evidence available at present, to frame a charge against any Chinaman other than Wong Li Fu.

Yet we know that he has at least four or five, and probably three times as many, accomplices." "Have the police yet obtained any real clew as to the whereabouts of the gang's headquarters?
They must have some sort of meeting place.

They must eat and sleep somewhere." "That big detective, Winter, came here this morning.

He seemed to be very confident, though I think I gave him the worst shock he has received for many a year when I informed him that within an hour after he had left the house Mrs.Forbes had been shot at, and narrowly escaped a fatal wound.

It was he who asked me to invite you to come here.