7. THE BLIND MAN’S EYES
For a moment Chan stood looking down at the crumpled figure of Ah Sing, and a wave of pity for this loyal servant who had been with the house of Ward so many years swept through him. He bent over solicitously.
“What has happened here?” he asked. Gently he shook the old man. “Who has done this thing to you?”
Sing opened his eyes, sighed and closed them again.
Rising, Charlie found the switch on the wall with his flash, and turned on the light in the upper hall. He surveyed the many doors. With the exception of his own, all were closed; they seemed blind, uninterested, secretive. He walked down the hall and knocked softly on the door of Dudley Ward’s room.
Presently it opened and Ward appeared, a weary gray-haired man in pajamas, looking older than Chan had thoug
