Sax Rohmer

“ Hermon el Bâhari continued, "for you have sent your daughter away from what you believed to be the zone of danger."
Sir Provost started but did not speak.
"You were wise, but not sufficiently watchful. The thing you feared might have come to pass, but a power beyond even the highest human control intervened mercifully. Your daughter will return from Surrey to-night. From her you may learn many things. Almost, my journey was unnecessary, for already I have been shown the end ordained to the evil dreams of this man who would defy God. ”

“ Sir Provost lay back in his chair, his coffee forgotten, watching the speaker.
"The knowledge which study has amassed through the ages," the latter continued, "the things which are good and which have been disseminated, and the things which are evil but powerful, and which have been concealed, we know of, you and I."
"Of some of them," Sir Provost corrected, regarding the other almost with veneration. "I shall never know all."
"It is true," Hermon el Bâhari acknowledged. "Far as you have gone, you are not fit to know all ”

“ He has been twice warned, and twice has rejected the warning. I came to recover that which he had stolen, but this is not to be. Guard yourself. He is about to receive the third and last warning. I am leaving these papers with you. ”