Some innocent Orientals would suffer, but the police might at least be enabled to capture the pestiferous gang which has committed this latest outrage.

Just think of some cold-blooded scoundrel shooting at a sweet-mannered and gentle lady like Mrs.
Forbes!" "Surely the authorities can protect her." "That is the wild absurdity of the position.

Of course, you didn't hear what Mr.Forbes said.

The armed detectives on duty in his house actually saw the Chinaman who fired the shot which wounded her, leaning out through the window of a closed car.

But they cannot blaze away at any passer-by merely because he is, or resembles, an Asiatic.