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Updated: June 7, 2025
Or had the curtain first been lifted upon this occult drama that evening, five years ago, as the setting sun reddened the waters of the Imperial Canal and a veiled figure passed him on the Wu-Men Bridge? "Shut your eyes tightly, master the Scorpion is coming!" He seemed to hear the boy's words now, as he passed along the Embankment; he seemed to see again the tall figure.
"Let us see," he suggested, "what we really know about this 'Scorpion'. Let us make a brief survey of our position in the matter. Let us take first what we have learned of him if it is a 'him' with whom we have to deal from the strange experiences of Dr. Stuart. Without attaching too much importance to that episode five years ago on the Wu-Men Bridge; perhaps he is not.
"For a moment I return to the man of the Wu Men Bridge. The man of the Wu-Men Bridge was veiled and this one is hooded! The man of the Wu-Men Bridge was known as 'The Scorpion, and this one also is associated with a scorpion. We will return yet again to this point in a moment. "Is there something else which we may learn from the experiences of Dr. Stuart? Yes!
That circle, my friends, surrounds what is now known as 'Chinatown'! For the third time I return to the man of the Wu-Men Bridge; for the man of the Wu-Men Bridge was, apparently, a Chinaman! Do I make myself clear?" "Remarkably so," declared the Assistant Commissioner, taking a fresh cigarette. "Pray continue, M. Max." "I will do so.
It wanted but a few minutes to sunset, and I was anxious to get back to my quarters before dusk fell. Therefore I hurried up my boy, who was drawing the rickshaw, telling him to cross the Canal by the Wu-men Bridge.
Or had the curtain first been lifted upon this occult drama that evening, five years ago, as the setting sun reddened the waters of the Imperial Canal and a veiled figure passed him on the Wu-Men Bridge? "Shut your eyes tightly, master the Scorpion is coming!" He seemed to hear the boy's words now, as he passed along the Embankment; he seemed to see again the tall figure.
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