When I saw them after I came back from Scotland Yard they had been disturbed.

They could not disturb themselves, master, and none but you would go to my box." There was a pause, awkward enough for Tarling, who felt for the moment a little foolish that his carelessness had led to Ling Chu discovering the search which had been made of his private property.
"I thought I had put them back as I had found them," he said, knowing that nothing could be gained by denying the fact that he had gone through Ling Chu's trunk.

"Now, you will tell me, Ling Chu, did those printed words speak the truth ?" Ling Chu nodded.
"It is true, master," he said.

"The Little Narcissus, or as the foreigners called her, the Little Daffodil, was my sister.

She became a dancer in a tea-house against my wish, our parents being dead.