Gerry Russell, up-country himself, was able to track her whereabouts, reporting them to the by now quite sickly Smith back in the city. The American woman's progress was of considerable interest to the two men she had spurned, and checking up on her would be easy. The local people knew what Harkness was doing “almost from hour to hour,” and the hunters “kept tabs on her movements from minute to minute,” Smith would say later. Beyond field-intelligence gathering, though, there wasn't much Russell could do to thwart her except beat her to the punch, something Smith would have liked to have done himself—if he had been up to it. Smith, the collector who didn't think a woman could be equal to the job, was presently checking himself in to a sanitarium in Shanghai for a week's “rest,” which would be followed by a month of more recuperation at home. Unaware of any espionage, Harkness and Young had started their climb toward the mountain passes. Harkness was out in front in the wha-gar and Young was bringing up the rear, with about a mile of road between them.
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