If he yields, it means that nearly a hundred leading men in China--men whose only thought is the welfare and progress of their country--will be ruthlessly murdered.

If he continues to refuse, his own life and the lives of his wife and daughter are at stake.

These fiends killed Mrs.Lester within a few feet of this very room.

They killed her husband six months ago.

They tried to kidnap Evelyn Forbes yesterday, and succeeded, for a while, in carrying off her mother, their plan being to torture one or both, even unto death.