17 Innesmore Mansions as the sequel to some political disturbance in far-off Shanghai.

It had not occurred to her that a hapless woman had been done to death merely as a warning to her father of the fate in store for him and his if he did not yield to the demand of the reactionary party in China, and deliver over to their vengeance some hundreds of the leading men in that distressed country.
"I doubt whether Wong Li Fu and his associates would have dared to offer you any real violence," he said.

"At the worst, I suppose, they might have retained you as a hostage." "A hostage for what ?" "For their claim against Mr.Forbes." "But what has he done?
He has never been in China." "He is a power in the financial world.

If the reform party cannot borrow money the movement will collapse.

At any rate that is what the Manchus believe, and they will strain every nerve to effect their purpose." "But why did they kill poor Mrs.Lester ?" Theydon felt that he was getting into deep water.