“That was all I had to tell you before I left,” continued Darley. “Today, at the office, I found another report on the Wu-Fan and the Tiger Tong. With it was a letter from Ling Soo.”
“What did he have to say?”
“I only glanced over the papers. Tomorrow I can let you see them. I think, however, that I can give you the general facts, right now, from memory.”
“I’d like to hear them.”
“It appears,” said Darley, “that the Tiger Tong made it known in no uncertain terms that it did not like the Wu-Fan. So Ling Soo sent a delegate to talk with a leader of the Tiger Tong, who makes his headquarters at a dive called the Sun Kew.”
This was illuminating! The delegate must have been the man who said he would not go again!
“The delegate,” continued Darley, “encountered some sort of trouble. So Ling Soo ordered three men to go there instead.”
“They waited until late at night, because the riff-raff of the Tiger Tong are usually around the Sun Kew in the evening. When the delegates arrived there, they found the police in possession. There had been a riot at the Sun Kew.”
“What caused it?” asked Cleve.
“The police could not find out,” declared Darley. “But it was in reference to that riot that Ling Soo wrote to me. He believes that the Tiger Tong lured a few members of the Wu-Fan to the place and attacked them.