Chapter 3 Summary

The league plans their next moves. Quatermain knows a local associate connected with the criminal element of the area and is assigned to track the man down and question him. Bond also suggests that Quong Lee, a local tea merchant, might be a valuable man to contact. Thus, the league divides into two field groups and pursues operations. Nemo remains aboard Nautilus to coordinate activities and provide a mobile base of operations. Quatermain and Jekyll team up and canvass Limehouse looking for his associate. As they look around Quatermain ruminates on Murray and is obviously much devoted to thinking of her in romantic ways. As usual, Jekyll is too reserved to say much. The pair finally enters an opium den and Quatermain inquires about his contact. He is then allowed to glimpse his associate behind a curtain—the man is being ritually...