Those things do not concern you.

What you want is to have Wong Li Fu and the others--there are nearly twenty in all--delivered into your hands.

Very well.

Give us those ivory skulls, and bring your men to that house in Charlotte Street, at one o'clock this night, and you will take them without a blow being struck." "That is our business, not yours," said Winter, gruffly decisive.

"I cannot expose you two gentlemen to any personal risk in this affair.
Kindly--" "You do not understand," broke in the jute merchant, addressing the burly representative of the Criminal Investigation Department as if he were a fractious child who must be informed as to the why and wherefore of a disagreeable duty.