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PO FENG HSI, Chief of Police for the city of Kwei Sek, sat now at a long table in the small police station at Nam Pa, the village which lay one day's journey by water up the river from the city where he normally found more than enough crime to exercise his mind. But this matter of the murder of Loo Ching, the son of the Kwei Sek Minister of Public Works, the subsequent disappearance of Loo Heng, the Minister himself, as well as of the boy Ming So, of Yang Fei, and her mistress Tung Nan Tsz, together with the undoubted theft of one of his own police launches, had so far incensed Po Feng Hsi that he had left the care of the city's crimes in the hands of a subordinate, and was now spreading wrath and inspiration round the little village of Nam Pa.
-"The stolen launch passed Nam Pa, but has not reached the next day's stop, Seung So?" he demanded.