What name belong him ?" Sheldon looked.

Ancient and withered, blackened by many years of the smoke of the devil-devil house, nevertheless the shrunken, mummy-like face was unmistakably Chinese.

How it had come there was the mystery.

It was a woman's head, and he had never heard of a Chinese woman in the history of the Solomons.

From the ears hung two-inch-long ear-rings, and at Sheldon's direction the Binu man rubbed away the accretions of smoke and dirt, and from under his fingers appeared the polished green of jade, the sheen of pearl, and the warm red of Oriental gold.