Sax Rohmer

“ I myself have gone some little way along the same road, and I think we shall all have a better grasp of the task which has been thrust upon us if I explain the nature of the danger which we have to meet.
"Briefly, then, to begin with a paradox, there is no such thing as discovery. All the forces controlled, or partially controlled, by modern science, have always been in existence, and at some period of the world's history have been used before—perhaps not in quite the same way as they are used to-day. ”

“ Grey Face is playing a stupendous game of chess with the peoples of the world. A belief is growing in the highest quarters that the political unrest which disturbs almost every country one can think of just now is due, in a large measure, to this influence. ”

“ At last a sort of common understanding has been reached between the responsible authorities of the several countries concerned, and there is no doubt that the person, or group of persons, which we three associate with the expression 'Grey Face' is engaged in a conspiracy surpassing any in history. ”

“ Torrington! we are on the eve of stranger things than we have yet known.
"I spoke of your recent study of Atomic Pathology as a singular coincidence. It was not a coincidence. We three now in this room are instruments of those higher laws which we cannot control because we do not understand them. From now until a certain menace to the peace of the community has been removed there will be for us no coincidences and no accidents. This phenomenal diamond did not come haphazard into your possession. The stranger did not select you by accident. ”

“ Sir Provost interrupted quietly, "that there are several such people living amongst us to-day—yes; human beings like ourselves, curators of Nature's deathless secrets, of the powers for good or evil inherent in man and in Mother Earth ”