The Chinese are devils.

But yours is not the first case we have heard of.

We only come up here for a month at a time, but the man we relieved told us a strange tale about another poor beggar who came into the station some two months ago.

He had been wandering in the jungle, and was nearly at death's-door." The blind man gave a start, while the little man seized his hand and made a number of rapid movements upon it with his fingers.
"My friend wants to know if you are aware of that man's name ?" he said.
"We lost a companion, and he thinks that he may be the man.

For Heaven's sake tell us what you know.