Then I'll hurry home, perfect my defenses, and defy these murderous curs.

My wife must come to London.

In a crisis like this I must have my loved ones under my own personal supervision.

I can still shoot straight and quick, and woe betide any man, white or yellow, who enters my house unbidden.

As for this infernal symbol--!" He raised a clenched fist, and would have pounded into fragments the thin fabric of the ivory skull still lying where he had placed it on the table had not Furneaux snatched it into safety.
"No, no!" protested the detective.