The Wings of the Morning

CHAPTER I

THE WRECK OF THE _SIRDAR_

Lady Tozer adjusted her gold-rimmed eye-glasses with an air of dignified aggressiveness. She had lived too many years in the Far East. In Hong Kong she was known as the "Mandarin." Her powers of merciless inquisition suggested torments long drawn out. The commander of the _Sirdar_, homeward bound from Shanghai, knew that he was abo...