"That is one way to do it—but who goes, and who stays?" Lu Ping'an looked at Chen Dongcheng. Here was yet another problem. The two of them might be grasshoppers on the same rope now, but they were not yet so close as to confide their hearts to each other, and neither knew what calculations the other was turning over. Whichever of them went and whichever stayed, there would always be misgivings of one kind or another.

The two lapsed into silence at the same time. (To be continued.)