CHAPTER VI.
THE MOTHER OF ODETTE RIDER The two men looked at one another in silence.
"Well ?" said the Commissioner at last.
Tarling shook his head.
"That's amazing," he said, and looked at the little slip of paper between his finger and thumb.
"You see why I am bringing you in," said the Commissioner.

"If there is a Chinese end to this crime, nobody knows better than you how to deal with it.

I have had this slip translated.

It means 'He brought this trouble upon himself.'" "Literally, 'self look for trouble,'" said Tarling.

"But there is one fact which you may not have noticed.