How can I have any guarantee that you and this other gentleman may not be his next victims?
He is a person who displays a somewhat forced humor.

We might enter the Charlotte Street house at one o'clock and find your corpses there, with labels and ivory skulls neatly attached." "That will not be so," was the grave answer.
"If I agree, what time do you propose going there ?" "About midnight." "And do you expect the police to leave the whole neighborhood severely alone for another hour ?" "Not unless you wish it.

If you so desire you can occupy both ends of the street, and arrest every Chinaman coming away from No.

412, but let those pass who go towards it." "Will others go there--friends of yours, I mean ?" "Oh, yes.

We will overpower the Young Manchus by taking them unaware.