The Mystery of the Big Four

Lee Chang-Yin may be regarded as representing the brains of the Big Four. Poro was alternately silent and loquacious. He would sit staring out of the window like a man lost in a dream, apparently not hearing a word that I said to him. The train, of course, did not stop anywhere until Southampton, but just here it happened to be held up by a signal. It is undoubtedly the blessed saints who stopped the train. Jump Hastings, but jump, I tell you. In an instant he had unfastened the carriage door and jumped out on the line. Throw out the suitcases and jump yourself. As I alighted beside him, the train