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"You mean it passed from one Chinaman's hand to another?" "Allee same." "Why didn't the first Chinaman who got it bring it here?" "S'pose Mellikan man want to catchee lettel. He spotty Chinaman. He follee Chinaman. Chinaman passee lettel nex' Chinaman. He no get. Mellikan man no habe got. Sabe?" "Then this package will go back the same way?" "Allee same." "And who will YOU give it to now?"
"I'd like to go into one of them funny holes," she said to herself, half aloud. Wan Lee suddenly began to blink his eyes with unwonted excitement. "Catchee tunnel heap gold," he said, quickly. "When manee come outside to catchee dinner Pilats go inside catchee tunnel! Shabbee! Pilats catchee gold allee samee Melican man!" "And take perseshiun," said Hickory.
"Hist!" whispered Ching Wang softly, catching hold of my legs as I came down the rope to prevent my feet making a noise on touching the bottom of the sampan; while he carefully guided me into a seat in the stern- sheets. "Makee quiet, tyfong watchee. If catchee no go, all up topside!"
The boat came back with Ching looking disappointed, and his yellow forehead ploughed with parallel lines. "Ching know," he said to me one evening mysteriously. "Know what?" I said. "Plenty pilate boat hide away in island. No come while big ship Teasler here." "Oh, wait a bit," I said; "we shall catch them yet." "No, catchee," he said despondently. "Pilate velly cunning.
"Catchee trouble for wifee no got." He extended his wrists, meeting the angry glare of the Chief Inspector with a smile of resignation. Kerry bit savagely at his chewing-gum, glancing aside at Bryce. "Did you ever see his wife?" he snapped. "No, sir. I didn't know he had one." "No habgotchee," murmured Sin Sin Wa, "velly bad woman."
"I say, monsieur, no catchee, no habbee," cried Jerry, laughing, and putting his hand to his side from loss of breath. But we must now acquaint the reader with what is going on below.
Another, the fellow who chanced to take up his quarters at Smith's Hotel, is a delegate sent here specially to hunt out Wong, and destroy him. I asked him how he meant to set about it, but his scheme is vague. He's an opportunist of the first water. 'Me catchee and killee Wong Li Fu one time, was his best effort. I'm going to confront Len Shi with these two in Bow Street.
Previous to my arrival at the city I had instructed my English-speaking boy to make inquiries in the city, and to let me know afterwards, whether girls were still sold publicly. "Have got plenty," he exclaimed, in describing this wholesale selling of female children into slavery. "I know, I know; you wantchee makee buy. Can do! You wantchee catch one piecee small baby, can catchee two, three tael.
"For the last time," said Kerry, stooping and thrusting his face forward so that his nose was only some six inches from that of Sin Sin Wa, "where's Mrs. Sin?" "Catchee lun off," replied the Chinaman blandly. "Velly bad woman. Tlief woman. Catchee stealee alla my dollars!" "Eh!" Kerry stood upright, moving his shoulders and rattling the handcuffs.
The man watched him now in silence, only broken by exclamations of "Blimey" and "Flaming hell" when more shot was discovered. The tests concluded: "Gotchee some more?" asked Sin Sin Wa. From the canvas wrapping George took out and tossed on the counter a square packet wrapped in grease-paper. "H'm," murmured Sin Sin Wa, "Patna. Where you catchee?" "Off of a lascar," growled the man.
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