The League of Nations has decreed that they shall not be built." "Nevertheless," Prince Shan declared, with portentous gravity, "a thousand of these engines of destruction are now ready in a certain city of China.

Each one of the three secret cities has done its quota of work in the shape of providing parts.

China alone has put them together.

I bought the secret, and I alone possess it.

It rests with me whether the world remains at peace or moves on to war." "You cannot hesitate, then ?" Mr.Mervin Brown exclaimed anxiously.