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-"AND that is the result of my enquiries into the boy's disappearance," said the Chief of Police. "He was last seen by the porter, giving evidence of his discreet methods of life, for he was then going up to bed at the hour of ten. The only evidence which I have not heard is evidence which I wished you, Kung, to hear with me--that of the girl Yang Fei. I have her waiting below."
Kung Hiao Ling smiled and replenished his wine-cup. "You will drink another cup before she comes?" he asked. "No? What a pity! For I have chosen of all the vices the least harmful to others: a man may sit and drink until he is one with the dwellers in the moon, and if he still sits thereafter he is no trouble to anyone else. Did not the poet say."