Kennedy evidently did not wish to violate in any way
the confidence of Walker Curtis, and mention of the name of Chin
Jung, but by a judicious question as to who the best men were in
the Celestial settlement he did get a list of half a dozen or so
from O'Connor. Chin Jung was well up in the list. However, the
night wore away and still nothing happened.
It was in the middle of the morning when we were taking a snatch
of sleep in our own rooms uptown that the telephone began to ring
insistently. Kennedy, who was resting, I verily believe, merely
out of consideration for my own human frailties, was at the
receiver in an instant. It proved to be O'Connor. He had just gone
back to his office at headquarters and there he had found a report
of another murder.
"Who is it?" asked Kennedy, "and why do you connect it with this
case?"
O'Connor's answer must have been a poser, judging from the look of
surprise on Craig's face. "The Jap--Nichi Moto?" he repeated. "And
it is the same sort of non-fatal wound, the same evidence of
asphyxia, the same circumstances, even down to the red car
reported by residents in the neighbourhood.
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