That gray car is nothing more nor less than a red herring accidentally drawn across the trail.

Some cute Chinaman said 'Hallo! that murdered woman is the wife of Forbes's agent in Shanghai.

Now, let's see what Forbes is doing, and who visits him, and perhaps we'll learn something.' Want a bet ?" Forbes could not help but recover some of his shattered nerve in view of the detective's airy optimism.

Still, he was shaken and dubious.
"Don't forget that the Chinese Ambassador has no knowledge whatsoever of my share in the revolution," he said.
"And don't forget that for ways which are dark and tricks which are vain the heathen Chinee is peculiar," retorted Furneaux.

"How can you be sure that there is not in the Embassy at this moment a full statement of your payments into the reformers' funds, as well as the list of conspirators which our friend Wong Li Fu is in search of ?" "I think that such a thing is almost impossible." "Is there anything really impossible?
We used to believe that once a man was dead he could not be brought to life again.