Chapter 46

I tried to reconstruct the details of our interview in Babylon House. Had I detected, or only deluded myself that I had detected, a swift exchange of signs between Li King Su and someone concealed in an inner room? Had I merely _imagined_ the presence of this other? . . . Or had I been right in supposing someone to be there but wrong in my natural deduction that he was a friend of the Chinese doctor? Had the hidden man murdered Li King Su and caused his body to be removed in the big trunk? . . . “The garden of this…