Talbot Mundy, The Ivory Trail — Chapter 18 (1919)
“ And if, when the world war at last broke out and the Germans undertook to put in practise the treachery they had so long planned, there was a secret fund of hugely welcome money at the disposal of the out-numbered defenders of British East, its source will no doubt be accounted for, as well as its expenditures, to the proper people, by the proper people, at the proper time and place. ”
Talbot Mundy, The Ivory Trail — Chapter 18 (1919)
“ But the men who keep the keys of the bursting ivory vaults by London docks could tell how much of it was good, and what huge stores of it reached them. For some strange reason they are not a very talkative breed of men. ”
Talbot Mundy, The Ivory Trail — Chapter 18 (1919)
“ CHAPTER EIGHTEEN If all is well that ends well, and only that is well, then this story fails at the finish, for we never caught the cannibals, so never taught them the lesson in housekeeping and economics that they needed. ”
