Mrs. Ede came across, but could get nothing further from the man. Mrs. Lue thereupon decided to go to pharmacy—there was one two or three doors away—with the men. Mrs. Ede went home, and the a remained at Mrs, Luc's house.
When the trio entered the pharmacy—one man stayed with the motor-cyele—Mrs. Lue was told that she would have to goto another pharmacy, on some pretext or other. So she went along with them to another, not very far away.
From the second pharmacy she telephoned but could not understand man who answered the telephone, whereupon one of the gangsters took the instrument from. her band and did some talking himself.
Mrz. Lue began to smell a rat, and walked to Mrs. Ede's house, accom-Danied by the men, who left her When she entered the house. From Mrs. Ede's house telephone calls. were made to the French Police, "but a certain amount.
delay is alleged to have ensued before they arrived, possibly owing to the language difficulty.
When they ald arrive the gang had gone, but in the interval one of the trio had gone to Mrs. Lue's house and told the amah that her master heeded two suits. She handed over two of the best suits she could find, incidentally without their waistcoats. Later on the amah was taken away by the police for examination.
Subsequently Mrs. Lue ascertained that there was no truth in the report fof the air crash, and later on another Femarkable incident occurred, when 3t530 pin. she spotted one of the four gangsters of the morning as fellow traveller in a No. 9 bus. Terrifled that the man might attack her It she gave him away, she refrained from raising an alarm, although the man recognized and laughed at her. honorary LID. from Edinburgh University in 1924.
In 1929 he came to China as adviser to. the Nanking Government, which post he kept until 1932. He has written several books of note, among which are "Asia in the Twen-oth Century." "China and Foreign Powers," and "The Future of East and West."
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