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"That chap has been to the bottom of the pit, but he bobs up with a smile. Did you notice his smile?" I rang the bell for Quong, our Chinese servant. When he came in I told him to prepare a hot bath. Ajax whistled; but as Quong went away, looking rather cross, my brother added, "Our clothes will fit him." The bath-house was outside.
Detective Mooney, of the Second, detailed to make good District Attorney Peckham's boast that there had never been so little trouble with the foreign element since the administration of which he was an ornament came into office, saw Quong Lee emerge from his doorway in Doyers Street just before four o'clock the following Thursday and slip silently along under the shadow of the eaves toward Ah Fong's grocery and instantly sensed something peculiar in the Chink's walk.
If Mock Hen was at Hudson House, nearly two miles from Pell and Doyers Streets, at four o'clock on the afternoon of the homicide, manifestly he could not have been one of the assailants of Quong Lee at one minute past four. I am satisfied that no jury would convict " "Not on your life!" snorted the foreman airily. " and I therefore," went on O'Brien, "ask the court to direct an acquittal."
It was, in fact, a medieval corselet of finest steel mesh, capable of turning an elephant bullet. "Go'long!" ordered Mooney finally. "I guess you're safe!" He turned back in the direction of Chatham Square, while Quong resumed his tortoiselike perambulation toward Ah Fong's.
The voice of somebody at the guardhouse, bawling orders, came out of the receiver as he tossed the phone forward over Harry Quong's shoulder; Quong caught it and began speaking rapidly and urgently into it while he steered with the other hand. Von Schlichten took one of the five-pound spiked riot-maces out of the rack in front of him.
James's Park a patient Scotland Yard official brought up the gold nail-case with its mysterious engravings and it contained, torn at the root, the incredibly long finger-nail of the Mandarin Quong! The note of a silver bell quivered musically through the scented air of the ante-room.
"Quong Lee followed his guest to the street, and watched his retreating figure until lost to sight. "'Curse him! Curse him! hissed the old man vindictively. 'May the gods destroy him! And Quong Lee will aid them! Give me but the chance; oh, give me but the chance! And he crossed his fingers.
Keeping the car high enough to be above the trajectories of incoming shells, Harry Quong circled over the city while Hassan Bogdanoff talked to Gongonk Inland on the radio. The city was in a bad way. There were seventy-five to a hundred big fires going, and a new one started in a rising ball of thermoconcentrate flame while they watched.
I suppose that it really was a very dangerous pastime, for although sometimes the drift tunnel led us to a sunlit opening on the hillside, more often we reached a blind end and were forced to return to the main shaft and to "shin" up the rope, with from ten to forty feet of inky water waiting to catch us if we fell. Or we went up the river to "swing the rocker" for old Ali Quong.
"He was very reticent, but I made a number of inquiries, and finally learned with absolute certainty, I think, that he was the Mandarin Quong Mi Su from Johore Bahru, a person of great repute among the Chinese there, and rather a big man in China. He was known locally as the Mandarin Quong." "Did you learn anything respecting how he had come by his injury, Doctor?"
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