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Updated: July 20, 2025

Leaves rustled faintly outside the window at my back: I construed their sibilant whispers into the dreaded name Fu-Manchu-Fu-Manchu Fu-Manchu! So wore on the night; and, when the ticking clock hollowly boomed the hour of one, I almost leaped out of my chair, so highly strung were my nerves, and so appallingly did the sudden clangor beat upon them. Smith, like a man of stone, showed no sign.

Sax Rohmer - The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu