The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu. Sax Rohmer
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given us the slip, Doctor," said Inspector Weymouth, as a
fire-engine came swinging round the corner of the narrow lane. "So has
Mr. Singapore Charlie--and, I'm afraid, somebody else. We've got six
or eight all-sorts, some awake and some asleep, but I suppose we shall
have to let 'em go again. Mr. Smith tells me that the girl was
disguised as a Chinaman. I expect that's why she managed to slip away."
I recalled how I had been dragged from the pit by the false queue, how
the strange discovery which had brought death to poor Cadby had brought
life to me, and I seemed to remember, too, that Smith had dropped it as
he threw his arm about me on the ladder. Her mask the girl might have
retained, but her wig, I felt certain, had been dropped into the water.
It was later that night, when the brigade still were playing upon the
blackened shell of what had been Shen-Yan's opium-shop, and Smith and I
were speeding away in a cab from the scene of God knows how many
crimes, that I had an idea.
"Smith," I said, "did you bring the pigtail with you that was found on
Cadby?"
"Yes. I had hoped to meet the owner."
"Have you got it now?"
"No. I met the owner."
I thrust my hands deep into the pockets of the big pea-jacket lent to
me by Inspector Ryman, leaning back in my corner.
"We shall never really excel at this business," continued Nayland
Smith. "We are far too sentimental. I knew what it meant to us,
Petrie, what it meant to the world, but I hadn't the heart. I owed her
your life--I had to square the account."
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