The Case of the Curio Dealer by William Hope Hodgson (top 10 novels .txt) 📖

drug of Greed) has helped him to some impossible explanation. In any case, he could not very well (after his gorgeous yarn of the President’s pigtail) enlarge upon his loss to me. His glumness yesterday and to-day is, perhaps, understandable. The stealing of the amber god cannot have proved a profitable investment of time or labor, not to mention money.

As I look at the wonderful carving of the amber atrocity, I cannot help feeling enormously satisfied with my course of action in this matter. Hual Miggett deserves punishment for a number of undesirable things. Moreover, like Hual Midget, I also know a collector who will pay a good hefty price for the little yellow monster.