Chapter 14

"I can't follow you," the detective replied. "Though it is a rather startling bit of news--I'll admit that. The birthday of Hung Chin-chung! Born fifty years ago in Honolulu. Your father thinks so much of him he decides to give him a birthday party. He goes to a lot of trouble to get candles, and--say, how long was the Chink with your family?" "Twenty years," said Mark Drew. "That explains it," Barnes replied. "Twenty years! If we could keep a servant twenty years we wouldn't stop at a birthday party. We'd …