Secondly, why should Wong Li Fu be described as the man wanted in the Innesmore Mansions inquiry; and, thirdly, how does Mr.Handyside come into the picture ?" "I can't--talk--just yet," wheezed Theydon hoarsely.

"In a few minutes--I'll--tell you everything." Evelyn had not realized earlier that her self-appointed champion had been seriously hurt.

She was deeply concerned, and wanted to take him straight to the nearest doctor.
But he smiled and essayed to calm her fears by whispering that he would soon be fully recovered.

It was pleasant to know that he had succeeded in rescuing her from some indefinable though none the less deadly peril, yet the insistent question in his subconscious mind was not connected with Evelyn's escape, or the flight of her assailant, or the mysterious presence of the chief inspector, but with the vanishing of Mr.
Handyside.
What had become of him?
It was the maddest of fantasies to imagine that he could be bound up in some way with the Young Manchus.

Yet why did he fail to turn up at the station?
Theydon could not even guess at a plausible explanation.