J. S. Fletcher,
The Kang-He Vase — Chapter 10
(1924)
“ Cherry took me to dinner at a Soho restaurant where there were all sorts of strange people to be seen, and then to a theatre—a rare treat for me, who had never seen anything but a pantomime or two at Kingshaven—and the novelty and excitement of these things drove the Middlebourne mysteries, Cousins, Uncle Joseph, the Kang-he vase, and all the rest of it clean out of my mind. ”
J. S. Fletcher,
The Kang-He Vase — Chapter 10
(1924)
“ Spelwyn. “A big, round-faced, clean-shaven man, very smooth-tongued, plausible, and polite in an old-fashioned way; well-dressed and prosperous-looking. I formed the opinion that he had at some time of his life seen something of the East. As I say, he never returned—and I have thought since that he may have called on me, knowing me to be an expert, just to hear what I had to say when he named seven thousand pounds as the price of the vase he spoke of.”“And you said nothing?” remarked Cherry. ”
J. S. Fletcher,
The Kang-He Vase — Chapter 10
(1924)
“ You being a Scotland Yarder, though uncommon juvenile, but still one, and armed, as they say, with what they call credentials, and me not going to tell nothing to nobody but what is such, and no other, London police being, as you might say, more fitted to deal with these matters o’ life and death than country bobbies—and no disrespeck to you, Veller, what’s a friendly neighbour. ”
