At the House of the Venerable and Inscrutable Colonel and other Judge 
Fang hangouts, the name of Dr. X had been pronounced more frequently in 
recent weeks. Dr. X had tried to bribe everyone on Judge Fang's hierarchy 
except for the Judge himself. Of course, the overtures had been made by people 
whose connection with Dr. X was tenuous in the extreme, and had been so 
subtle that most of those approached had not even realized what was happening 
until, days or weeks later, they had suddenly sat up in bed exclaiming, "He 
was trying to bribe me! I must tell Judge Fang!"