Sax Rohmer

her features some of the quality of a delicate ivory mask. Except for superciliously curved lips, her face could not be said to bear any expression whatever.
She was beautiful, but unapproachable.

I anticipate that we shall be reported once more as a 'flying saucer'.

Secret of the atom bomb?”
“Rot! There’s no secret about it. You know that as well as I do. Once a weapon of war is given publicity, it loses its usefulness. I gain nothing by having a rock in my boxing-glove if the other fellow has one too. No. It’s something else.”

You mean the sallow man?”
“Sallow? He’s Burmese! They’re not all Communists, you know.”

He was in New York at the request of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and had been given almost autocratic powers by Washington.

That’s some kind of Asiatic. I saw his face!

“May I ask,” he growled, “since when Chinese have been admitted to membership?”

“What did he look like?”
“Yellow.”
“Indian?”
“No, sir. Some kind of Oriental. Then, only today, right in my own club, I caught another Asiatic watching me!

Pompeian frescoes, and given an Egyptian cigarette and a cup of orange-scented China tea.

They were in many languages, including Greek, Chinese, and Arabic.