be
your fate? Remember that the men of the revolution were ready to fight
for you not long ago."

Still no reply. The prisoner only looked sullenly down at the floor.

"What government do you represent?" asked Frank. "What nation is it
that is protecting the imperial government of China?"

"You need not answer that question," Ned said, with a sigh.

Frank laughed.

"I see," he said. "You don't want to further implicate matters by
giving out the name of the power whose seal shows on the wax! All
right, old boy, I'll get it yet!"

"No good can come of a representative of the United States Government
presenting charges of such a character against another power," Ned
replied.

Captain Martin now arose from the chair where he had been seated for a
long time. He glanced keenly into the faces of the six prisoners and
then turned to Ned.

"Shall I take them in charge?" he asked,

"That would be useless."

"Then what can be done with them?"

"I am going to turn them over to the authorities on the charge of
attempted murder, based on the effort they made to kill us in the old
house."

"Very well," the Captain said, "now will you tell me how you set this
trap so, cleverly?"

"It was only a matter of detail," Ned replied. "I took good care to let
the native waiters here know that I had the clues I had found secreted
in my room. I also let it be known that I was a heavy sleeper.

"My interpreter, who is by no means as treacherous a chap as his looks
would indicate, heard the robbery of my room planned. He heard the hour
fixed-a quarter past twelve. So all the rest was easy."

"Oh, yes, easy, but how did you do it?"

"Frank, Jack and Jimmie helped," added Ned. "Jack was at a window over
the way. He told me by signals just how many men were to take part in
the attack on me.

"Frank, in the next room to mine, told me when the time came to be on
guard. I really do not wake easily, and he rigged a cord through the
wall so I could rest comfortably until the time for action came.

"Then when all was ready, he told me by means of colored light that all
the six were in the corridor, and that the officers I had engaged during
the afternoon were on hand."

"And you went to sleep with all this on your mind and slept up to within
a quarter of an hour of the time set for action?" asked the Captain in
wonder.

"Why, certainly," was the reply. "You see, we have been having some
exciting nights, and I needed