The bodies of seven murdered members of Kuo's family were discovered buried in a garden in the Shanghai French Concession in November 1931; the bodies of four others of his relatives were found by the police later.

But when the animatrices came to the mission to ask for help, Cole says he had to tell them to work out their disagreements among themselves.

Keeping, therefore, an eye to the main chance, stimulated by the best possible motive, Helen emptied her purse on the bed, in such a manner, as to allow a stray half sovereign to escape, when she added the shillings and half-crowns to the little heap, and said, in a tremulous voice, Here is my money.

He soon smacked the taste of physic hidden in this sweetness.