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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: It was indeed none other than Fu-Manchu--the Fu-Manchu whom we
had thought to be helpless. The deeps of the Chinaman's cunning--
the fine quality of his courage, were forced upon me as amazing facts.
He had assumed the appearance of a drugged opium-smoker so well
as to dupe me--a medical man; so well as to dupe Karamaneh--
whose experience of the noxious habit probably was greater than
my own. And, with the gallows dangling before him, he had waited--
played the part of a lure--whilst a body of police actually
surrounded the place!
I have since thought that the room probably was one which he actually used
for opium debauches, and the device of the trap was intended to protect him
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