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You, Wainwright, were to follow Tom Terrill. I saw Terrill just now in a gang of Chinese, and you turn up on the other side of a barred door." Porter and Barkhouse looked sheepish enough, but Wainwright protested: "I was following Terrill when he gets into a gang of highbinders, and goes into one of these rooms over here a ways.
Tutt, "I will call a few witnesses to show you what kind of a man this is whom these highbinders accuse of the crime of murder!" Mock, rolling his eyes heavenward, assumed an expression of infantile helplessness and trust. "Don't overdo it!" growled Tutt. "Just look kind of gentle."
We believe that if a proper condition of public moral sentiment were maintained, by the enforcement of the laws of the United States in Chinese communities, no class of people would be more delighted than the respectable Chinese themselves, who are now left in a state of terror for their own lives from the highbinders, and who often dare not bring over their lawful wives from China, to live in the midst of this reign of terror, at the mercy of slave-traders and women-stealers.
Mainly, however, it was a Tenderloin for the house servants of the city for the San Francisco Chinaman was seldom a laundryman; he was too much in demand at fancy prices as a servant. The Chinese lived their own lives in their own way and settled their own quarrels with the revolvers of their highbinders.
Through two of Chinatown's most desolate old tenements, upstairs and downstairs in dark closets and unexpected corners, while Highbinders uttered imprecations in the alleys below, the rescue party kept up a diligent search for many hours.
"I am as obstinate as a mule. Ask Ormsby, or Loring. But the logic of the thing is blankly unanswerable. I can either get down to the dirty level of these highbinders fight the devil with a brand taken out of his own fire; or " "Or what?" she asked. "Or think up some other scheme; some plan which doesn't involve a surrender on my part of common decency and self-respect." "Yes?" she retorted.
"But them highbinders want thirty-two dollars and twenty cents, American gold." "What!" "Sad but true. Seems the stuff sells here for four bucks and sixty cents a bottle. Thinkin' I'm gittin' rooked because I'm a tenderfoot, I raise a row to oncet and start to climb the guy. Other folks mix in and things git lively right off.
He named the wage of the two pupils in a tone of disgruntled awe that piqued them pleasantly but did not otherwise impress. When they had gone their expensive ways he turned to Wilbur. "Did you get over to that dry-fork place to-day?" "No; too busy here with these highbinders." He spoke wearily, above a ripening suspicion that he would not much longer be annoyed in this manner.
Such a very riot of confusion there was, it seemed as if Confucius might have originally spelled his name with an s in the middle; for every window was black with pigtailed highbinders, cobblers, pork butchers, and pawnbrokers.
"Yes," said Phipps-Herrick, "out with them, bag and baggage. Think what the German spies and propagandists have done in America. Schools full of pacifist and pro-German teachers; text-books full of praise of the German Empire and the Hohenzollern Highbinders; newspapers full of treason, printed in the German language. Why, it's only a piece of self-defense to clean it all out, root and branch.
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