Would you like to see them at work ?" "Lead on, Macduff!" Ah Cum raised the skirt of his fluttering blue silk robe and stored the bill away in a trouser wallet.

It was the beginning and the end of the transaction.

When he finally telegraphed his startling information to Hong-Kong, it was too late for O'Higgins to act.

The quarry had passed out into the open sea.
* * * * * From the comatose state, Spurlock passed into that of the babbling fever; but that guarding instinct which is called subconsciousness held a stout leash on his secret.

He uttered one word over and over, monotonously: "Fool! ...