CHAPTER XXXVIII

THE MONK’S PLAN “My inquiries in the Manuscript Room of the British Museum,” said Nayland Smith, his voice momentarily growing stronger and some of the old fire creeping back into his eyes, “have proved entirely successful.” Sir Lionel Barton, Dr. Hamilton, and myself hung upon every word; and often I found myself glancing at the old-fashioned clock on the doctor’s mantelpiece. “We had very definite proof,” continued Smith, “of the fact that Fu-Manchu and company were conversant with that elaborate system of secret…