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The circumstances, truly, were curious, but the spirit in which the man acted was usual enough. I have had dacoit leaders with prices on their heads walk into my camp. It was a common experience with many officers. The Burmans often act as children do. Their crimes are the violent, thoughtless crimes of children; they are as little depraved by crime as children are.
But they said that men of the dacoit class were armed with long knives, with which they would slash your legs as soon as look at you. I replied that with their long bamboos, rightly used, they need not fear knives. Someone said that a gun was what was wanted, and asked if I had not got one. I answered that a priest was a man of peace, and had no need of guns.
Apart from the acute pain in my calf I knew that the dacoit's knife had bitten deeply, by reason of the fact that a warm liquid was trickling down into my boot. Like any drunkard I stood there in the middle of the road looking up at the vacant window where the dacoit had been, and up at the window above the shop of J. Salaman where I knew Fu-Manchu to be.
"But, my dear fellow, it is a climb of thirty-five feet at the very least." "You remember the cry in the back lane? It suggested something to me, and I tested my idea successfully. It was the cry of a dacoit. Oh, dacoity, though quiescent, is by no means extinct.
Glancing up, I found Nayland Smith's gray eyes watching me. "You see the mark, Petrie?" he snapped. I nodded. The dead man upon the table was a Burmese dacoit! "What do you make of it?" I said slowly. "At the moment," replied Smith, "I scarcely know what to make of it. You are agreed with the divisional surgeon that the man unquestionably a dacoit died, not from drowning, but from strangulation.
Heaped up in a corner of the place, amongst the straw and litter of the lair, lay the Burmese dacoit, his sinewy fingers embedded in the throat of the third and largest leopard which was dead whilst the creature's gleaming fangs were buried in the tattered flesh of the man's shoulder.
After some years of useless attempts to make his way, he was glad to accept the offer of a petty judgeship in India, and there, ten years later, he died, stabbed to the heart by a Mahomedan dacoit whom he had sentenced to a term of imprisonment. A year after his return from America Frank married Alice.
Without other evidence, the fact that they both died in the same way as the dacoit would be conclusive, for we know that Fu-Manchu killed the dacoit!" "What is the meaning of the mutilated hands, Smith?" "God knows! Cadby's death was from drowning, you say?" "There are no other marks of violence." "But he was a very strong swimmer, Doctor," interrupted Inspector Ryman.
"Never mind the dacoit, Petrie," he said. "Nemesis will know where to find him. We know now what causes the mark of the Zayat Kiss. Therefore science is richer for our first brush with the enemy, and the enemy is poorer unless he has any more unclassified centipedes. I understand now something that has been puzzling me since I heard of it Sir Crichton's stifled cry.
He shrugged his shoulders whimsically, and raised one hand to his bandaged head. "Fu-Manchu employs weapons both of the future and of the past," he said. "My movements had been watched, of course; I was mad. Some one, probably a dacoit, laid me low with a ball of clay propelled form a sling of the Ancient Persian pattern! I actually saw him ... then saw, and knew, no more! "Smith!"
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