[The Green Mummy by Fergus Hume]@TWC D-Link bookThe Green Mummy CHAPTER XXI 12/29
Why, this room is delightfully comfortable." "There is such a strong perfume about it," sniffed Random pointedly. "I should think you knew that scent by this time, Sir Frank.
I use no other and never have done.
Smell!" and she passed a flimsy handkerchief of lace. Random took the handkerchief and placed it to his nostrils.
As he did so a strange expression of triumph crept into his eyes. "I think you told me once that it was a Chinese perfume," he said, returning the handkerchief. Mrs.Jasher nodded, well pleased. "I get it from a friend of my late husband who is in the British Embassy at Pekin.
No one uses it but me." "But surely some other person uses it ?" "Not in England; and I do not know why you should say so.
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