Chapter 23

“My theory,” Smith replied, “based on the latest information to hand, and, as Weymouth here knows, almost hourly reports from police headquarters as widely divided as Pekin and Berlin, was this: That some attempt was being made to coordinate the dangerous religious sects of the East together with their sympathizers in the West. In short that the organization once known as the _Si Fan_—you, alone, Greville,” he turned to me, “fail to appreciate the significance of this—is in process of reconstruction! Something vita…