Chapter Eighteen
Bernard’s Evasions
“I am more bewildered than ever,” I told Bernard a day after our ordeal, this as we spoke in my house by the Bois. “At first, when I realized that Chou Zhang was back in Europe and had once again set-up an elaborate murder-machine, this time in Paris, it seemed unreal, impossible even. Then I met Guan-yin! She, whom we thought to be his victim, showed herself again to be his slave. Now, with Michalak and the Surete at work, the old secret evil is established again in our midst. Our lives and our freedoms are menaced and sleep is a danger. Every shadow threatens death. But, this time, it is so much worse.”
“How so?” asked Bernard from his sprawled position on the ottoman, the thoughts that had been giving the situation serious consideration for some ho
