If I felt I had won him I'd take him, and not leave you feeling as though you had been given a present.

But if you like I'll draw my own little wager as well.

You're the best man I ever met in any country.

By the Lord! man, you broke the hold that I once saw an ex-guardsman killed at Singapore for resisting--broke his arm short off, and he died on the table.

I've seen it at Tokio and Nagasaki--why, man, it's the yellow policeman's hold, the secret trick of the Orient.