THE SETTLEMENT Now, Len Shi had communicated one vital fact to his compatriots which they had carefully concealed from the detectives.

The opening campaign against Forbes had practically ended that day.

Thenceforth, for a week, the Young Manchus meant to separate, revert to Chinese costume, live in Chinese boardinghouses in the East End, and thus utterly mislead and bamboozle the police, who, in their hunt for the miscreants, would be searching for Chinamen in European dress and living in European style.
Winter was in two minds whether or not to inform the inmates of No.

11 as to the contemplated raid on the Charlotte Street rendezvous.
Ultimately, he decided to say nothing definite that evening.

It was better that the threatened people and their guards should not relax their vigilance.