"Don't worry," he said, "and don't ask me to stay to explain.
When I come back I'll have Dan with me!"
He trusted himself no further, but, clapping his hat on his head,
walked out to the waiting cab.
"Back to Limehouse police station," he directed rapidly.
"Lor lumme!" muttered the taximan. "Where are you goin' to after
that, guv'nor? It's a bit off the map."
"I'm going to hell!" rapped Kerry, suddenly thrusting his red
face very near to that of the speaker. "And you're going to
drive me!"
VI
THE KNIGHT ERRANT
Recognizing the superior strength of his captors, young Kerry
soon gave up struggling. The thrill of his first real adventure
entered into his blood. He remembered that he was the son of his
father, and he realized, being a quick-witted lad, that he was in
the grip of enemies of his father. The panic which had
threatened him when first he had recognized that he was in the
hands of Chinese, gave place to a cold rage--a heritage which in
later years was to make him a dangerous man.
He lay quite passively in the grasp of someone who held him fast,
and learned, by breathing quietly, that the presence of the
muffler about his nose and mouth did not greatly inconvenience
him.
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