Craig gave us, as he thrust his hands in his pockets and wished us
a thousand miles away at that moment.




CHAPTER V

SHADOWS OF WAR


For a long time Kennedy had, I knew, been at work at odd moments
in the laboratory secretly. What it was that he was working on,
even I was unable to guess, so closely had he guarded his secret.
But that it was something momentous, I was assured.

Long Sin had already been arrested and it was a day or two after
the escape of Wu himself who had come just in time to prevent the
confession by one of his emissaries of the whereabouts of his
secret den. Kennedy had Chase and another detective whom he
frequently employed on routine matters at work over the clues
developed by his use of the sphygmograph. Elaine, anxious for
news, had dropped in on us at the laboratory just as Kennedy was
hastily opening his mail.

Craig came to a large letter with an official look, slit open the
envelope, and unfolded the letter. "Hurrah!" he cried, jumping up
and thrusting the letter before us. "Read that."

Across the top of the paper were embossed in blue the formidable