You come at one o'clock, tap so on the door, and we will admit you.

Then you take Wong Li Fu and all the others.

There will be no fight." The Chinaman's manner was singularly impressive as he tapped three times on a high desk to emphasize, as it were, his instructions.

The sound, too, was curious.

He did not use his knuckles, but bunched the fingers of his right hand together, and rapped on the wood with the long nails which are a mark of distinction in his race.
"We make things easy and certain for you," he added, more by way of painstaking argument than because any further explanation was really necessary.