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"Shen-Yan's is a dope-shop in one of the burrows off the old Ratcliff Highway," said Inspector Weymouth. "'Singapore Charlie's, they call it. It's a center for some of the Chinese societies, I believe, but all sorts of opium-smokers use it. There have never been any complaints that I know of. I don't understand this."
"Ah!" said Kerry hardly, "I shouldn't wonder. And now" he thrust out a pointing finger "where did she get these drugs?" Margaret met the fierce stare composedly. "I have said that I shall be quite frank," she replied. "In my opinion she obtained them from Kazmah." "Kazmah!" shouted Kerry. "Excuse me, miss, but I see I've been wearing blinkers without knowing it! Kazmah's was a dope-shop?"
Thereupon the affair was reorganized on the lines later adopted in Bond Street. Kazmah's became a secret dope-shop, and annexed to it was an elaborate chandu-khan, conducted by the Chinaman. Mrs. Sin was the go-between. "You are all waiting to hear or, to be exact, two are waiting to hear, Gray and Margaret already know who spoke as Kazmah through the little window behind the chair.
"That what would come to this?" "His dealings with the Chinamen!" "He had dealings with Chinamen?" "He accidentally met a Chinaman at an East End gaming-house, a man he had known in 'Frisco a man called Singapore Charlie " "What! Singapore Charlie!" "Yes, sir, the same man that had a dope-shop, two years ago, down Ratcliffe way " "There was a fire " "But Singapore Charlie escaped, sir."
"Well, there's no sign from Max," said Rogers; "and as we aren't ten yards above the wharf, we cannot fail to hear the signal. For my part I never noticed anything suspicious, and never had anything reported, about this ginger firm, and where the swell dope-shop I've heard about can be situated, beats me. It can't very well be UNDER the place, or it would be below the level of the blessed river!"
"That what would come to this?" "His dealings with the Chinaman!" "He had dealings with Chinamen?" "He accidentally met a Chinaman at an East End gaming-house, a man he had known in Frisco a man called Singapore Charlie " "What! Singapore Charlie!" "Yes, sir, the same man that had a dope-shop, two years ago, down Ratcliffe way " "There was a fire " "But Singapore Charlie escaped, sir."
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