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Updated: May 21, 2025
Ling Foo knew where the beads were, and he would transfer them for one thousand gold. Smart business, nothing more than that. He had the whip hand. Out of his safe he took a blackwood box, beautifully carved, Cantonese.
"He would not mingle with the 'foreign devils," Broderick smiled. "That was Chang Foo, who runs the Hall of Everlasting Fortune, wasn't it?" "Yes, the gambling house," Wong Lee answered. "A bad man," his voice sank to a whisper. "Chief of the Hip Lee tong, for the protection of the trade in slave women. He came, no doubt, to threaten me because I am harboring a Christian convert.
Jane seized the necklace. "To possess something like this! Isn't it glorious, captain?" "Let me see it." Dennison inspected the necklace carefully. "It is genuine. Where did you get this?" Ling Foo shrugged. "Long ago, during the Boxer troubles, I bought it from a sailor." "Ah, probably loot from the Peking palace. How much is it worth?"
"Foo, how horrid!" he repeated, knowing perfectly well that these reflections were in themselves a bad sign. When he got home Masha was in bed: she was breathing evenly and smiling, and was evidently sleeping with great enjoyment. Near her the white cat lay curled up, purring. While Nikitin lit the candle and lighted his cigarette, Masha woke up and greedily drank a glass of water.
"Egad!" he exclaimed, "I have read of this kind of thing in novels; but in the whole course of my experience I never met with anything equal to it. My son-in-law, Lenoble yonder, is a generous foo fellow enough; but then, since infancy, he has never known the want of money.
No one had seen them enter here, and there was little chance of the police developing any interest in the shed; while from the other side Foo Sen's the fact that there was a police battle in the lane would only cause the inmates of the dive to give the shed and lane the widest possible berth!
You will see the Chinese children dance and perform; the Chinese women at their household tasks; the joss, the shrine of his hallowed ancestors, at which Chang Foo here worships; and you will enter the most famous opium den in the United States. Now, if you will all keep close together, we will make a start." In spite of his desperate situation, Jimmie Dale smiled a little whimsically.
Some difficulty is experienced, I believe, in approaching Foo Chow, owing to the strength of the currents in the neighbourhood; but, as a seventy-four-gun ship has got over that difficulty, it is proved to be not an insurmountable one. Ning-po is also a large and wealthy city, admirably situated for trade, and surrounded with a beautiful country.
Hair-dyeing might have grown popular in the town if one night, owing to some confusion with red ink, the Chairman of the Bursley Burial Board had not emerged from Jock-at-a-Venture's with a vermilion top-knot and been greeted on the pavement by his waiting wife with the bitter words: "Thou foo!"
From the shed there was a very sure means of escape across a small intervening yard, and out through an areaway into the street, for the shed was one of the many entrances to Foo Sen's, a place with which he was very intimately acquainted all this, of course, provided that, if the Tocsin were seen to enter the shed, some one held the pursuers back long enough to afford her time to reach the street.
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