Napier was ready for his leg of the relay. "Such an engineer, if one 
existed, might be surprised to know that John Zaibatsu is intensely curious 
about the Shanghainese gentleman in question—an honest-to-god Mandarin 
of the Celestial Kingdom, if he is who we think he is—and that we have 
been trying for some time, with little success, to
obtain more information about his activities. So, if the Shanghainese gentleman 
were to request that our engineer partake in activities that we would normally 
consider unethical or even treasonous, we might take an uncharacteristically 
forgiving stance. Provided, that is, that the engineer kept us 
well-informed."