WHEREIN UNEXPECTED ALLIES APPEAR Although, as shall be seen, the final and complete defeat and extinction of the London section of the Young Manchus were directly due to forces set in motion by Furneaux, it was Winter's painstaking way of covering the ground that unearthed the fraternity's meeting place, and thus brought matters to a head speedily.

For the rest, events followed their own course, and great would have been the fame of the prophet who predicted that course accurately.
In later days, when more ample knowledge was available, it was a debatable point whether or not the inmates of No.

11 Fortescue Square were saved from an almost maniacal vengeance by the fact that a crisis was precipitated.

Winter maintained stoutly that the police must triumph in the long run, whereas Furneaux held, with even greater tenacity, that although the gang would undoubtedly be broken up, that much-desired end might have been attained after, and not before, a dire tragedy occurred in the Forbes household.
The pros and cons of the argument were equally numerous and weighty.
They cannot be marshaled here.

Each man and woman who reads this record will probably form an emphatic opinion tending toward the one side or the other.