One tong
used revolvers of a certain make; the other of a different make.
The bullet which had killed Bertha Curtis and later Nichi Moto was
from a pistol like that of the Hep Sings.
The difference in the makes of guns seemed at once to suggest
something to Kennedy and instead of mixing actively in the war of
the highbinders he retired to his unfailing laboratory, leaving me
to pass the time gathering such information as I could. Once I
dropped in on him but found him unsociably surrounded by
microscopes and a very sensitive arrangement for taking
microphotographs. Some of his negatives were nearly a foot in
diameter, and might have been, for all I knew, pictures of the
surface of the moon.
While I was there O'Connor came in. Craig questioned him about the
war of the tongs.
"Why," O'Connor cried, almost bubbling over with satisfaction,
"this afternoon I was waited on by Chin Jung, you remember?--one
of the leading merchants down there. Of course you know that
Chinatown doesn't believe in hurting business and it seems that he
and some of the others like him are afraid that if the tong war is
not hushed up pretty soon it will cost a lot--in money.
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