All of the stories, spanning several hundreds of years and cultures, are held together by themes of intolerance, man's inhumanity o man, hypocrisy, bigotry, religious hatred, persecution, discrimination and injustice achieved in all eras by entrenched political, social and religious systems.[Note: Some experts believed that the Pharaoh of Exodus was not Rameses II, but Thutmose III (also spelled Thothmes III), who ruled about one or two centuries before Rameses II.It depends on the favor.Marlowe: Do you know Geiger's bookstore across the street?Clerk: I think I may have passed it.Marlowe: Do you know Geiger by sight?Clerk: Well, I...Marlowe: What does he look like?Clerk: Wouldn't it be easy enough to go across the street and ask o see him?Marlowe: I've already done that.However, he was initially doubtful and unconvinced.In the conclusion, Captain Harvey and Shanghai Lily were reconciled to each other when he spied Lily buying him a new replacement watch in a train station shop.