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Number Seventeen

CHAPTER XVII
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We explained to the door-keepers that we had just arrived from China, and brought messages of great urgency.

Once inside, we gagged and bound the door-keepers.

Then we entered No.

412, where we knew that Wong Li Fu would be smoking opium with the remaining fourteen." "Were there seventeen in the gang, all told ?" broke in Furneaux.
"Seventeen Manchus.

The rest are--paid men--of no account." "Queer," muttered Furneaux, almost to himself.


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