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Number Seventeen

CHAPTER XVI
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His eyes grew goggled like yours when he saw the gray car." "Didn't you explain matters ?" "Not I.Gave him the cut direct.

My Chinamen are shy birds, and I daren't flutter them by letting them think there are too many foreign devils mixed up in the business.

My London Chinaman was the brainy person who got the Embassy busy when Mrs.Lester's death was announced.
He saw Wong Li Fu's hand in that from the first moment.

Oddly enough, though he and a man from the Embassy followed Theydon from Waterloo to Forbes's place on Tuesday night, and again to Innesmore Mansions, he didn't recognize him today.

Or perhaps he did.


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