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Number Seventeen

CHAPTER XVII
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"Did Wong Li Fu recognize you ?" "Oh, yes," said the Chinaman.
"And you spoke to him ?" "Oh, yes." The eyes of the two clashed.

For once, Furneaux peered deep into the mind of an Oriental, and what he saw there kept him quiet, but he knew, just as surely as if he had been present, exactly what Li Chang said to Wong Li Fu.

He delivered a message from two graves in far-off China.
* * * * * And that is all--or nearly all.
The "Charlotte Street Fire" caused only a slight sensation.

It became known that No.

412 was a resort of Chinese opium fiends, and the loss of the den and its frequenters was not treated as a National calamity.


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