The Devil Doctor
pounds if you show us the present hiding-place of Fu-Manchu, the payment
ed to the armchair which he had just quitted. He reseated
n black and white?" h
d, bending forward over a corner of the table, scribble
. He was a thought overdressed-a big man, dark-haired and well-groomed, who toyed with a monocle most unsuitable to his
tly. There was a sort of bluish tint underlying the dusky skin, noticeable even in his hands but proclaiming itself sig
an, being made of some kind of dark brown, mottled wood, bearing a marked resemblance to a snake's skin; and the top of the cane was carved in conformity, to represent the head o
he, having read it with an appearance of carelessness,
e a curi
atisfaction which, by his manner, he sought to
boriginal work, and was given to me by a client. You t
all
ers to it! In fact, I believe he thought that it was
ggested Smith, gl
id Slattin, standing up and
ne us, then?"
rom me to-morrow
tin, bowing to both of us, made his way to th
al," I began, as the door closed, "you ha
amish respecting our instruments in dealing with Dr. Fu-Manchu. Slattin has a rotten
o you
Weymouth at the Yard yesterday
ever
n the case. Beyond doubt he has established some sort of c
don't
you he is unscrupulous eno
things unutterable, whose potentialities for evil were boundless as his genius, who personified a secret danger, the extent and nature of which none of us t
low as to become a creature o
bout as black as it well could be. Slattin is, of course, an assumed name; he was known as Lieutenant Pepley when he
nato
oo; and we must not forget that he
y appointment whic
I shall not wait
ha
le informal visit to Mr.
is of
his object is to draw us into some trap, he will probably
ould have f
and divested himself of
with one of his rare smiles. "Two C.I.D. m
acteristic of my frien
this morning. He will soon be convales
, Petrie," interrupted Smith. "
ed, st
ger in
upon Chinese paper, and enclosed in an ordinary business envelo
el
tray your correspondent in China, he has been discovered. He was a mandarin, and as I cannot write the name of a tra
it is almost c
incere; and, to clear all doubt, I received a cable this morning reporting that the Ma