She thought, as she spoke, how foolish her father had been where the Chinese were concerned. He gave them any amount of money they asked him for to invest in their schemes and he was so certain that it would come back a hundred fold. Of course it did nothing of the sort. She had helped him write letters either begging for the money to be returned or threatening them if they did not do so. As it invariably happened, the Chinese themselves disappeared and so it was doubtful if any of their letters reached them. Sheila had therefore learnt a great deal by writing letters for her father as well as talking to other Chinese he then turned to for help. She could not help knowing that time after time her father had been taken in by men who were nothing better than crooks. Inevitably where h