To my certain knowledge, Dr. Fu-Manchu at this time had

demand that the men who killed the woman must be given up and my six-

shooter returned. His reply was he did not think it could be done,

but he would consult his people. After the consultation, he returned

and notified me that fifteen would surrender and the six-shooter

would be restored, and further, that we could kill the sixteenth man,

since the tribe wished to get rid of him anyhow, adding that he was a

bad Indian, whose bullet no doubt had given the woman her death

wound. He said that if I assented to this arrangement, he would