
"[...] There´s good reason to suppose that he´s the man behind it all."
"Behind what?"
"Everything. The world-wide unrest, the labour troubles that beset every nation, and the revolutions that break out in some. There are people, not scaremongers, who know what they are talking about, and they say that there is a force behind the scenes which aims at nothing less than the disintegration of civilisation. In Russia, you know, there were many signs that Lenin and Trotsky were mere puppets whose every action was didacted by another´s brain. I have no definite proof that would count with you, but I´m quite convinced that this brain was Li Chan Yen´s."