"Why, the detective-man himself said that the Young Manchus have been searching ever since the beginning of the year for proof of Dad's connection with the revolutionaries, and he was candid enough to tell us that if it hadn't been for you that horrid Wong Li Fu would have got me into the car.

No, Mr.Theydon, our meeting has proved most fortunate for me.

Suppose I had really been captured! Would he have gagged me and taken me away to some lonely place, where I would be kept a prisoner, or even killed ?" Theydon had no desire that her mind should dwell on such a harrowing topic.

He shuddered to think of her fate if ever she fell into the hands of the miscreants who had not scrupled to murder Mrs.Lester.

She evidently regarded the crime in No.