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They were paid by the saloon-keepers, paid by the bullies, paid by the women themselves. At last they were forced to move." "I read about it in the papers that came on board in Honolulu," said Dr Macphail. "Iwelei, with its sin and shame, ceased to exist on the very day we arrived. The whole population was brought before the justices.
The twitch of Davidson's face proved that, though he spoke of scientific things, his mind was busy in the same direction. Suddenly, while the doctor was giving some experience of practice on the Flanders front, rather prosily, he sprang to his feet with a cry. "What's the matter, Alfred?" asked Mrs Davidson. "Of course! It never occurred to me. She's out of Iwelei." "She can't be."
There was a stir in the air and a sense of expectant gaiety. You turned down a narrow alley, either to the right or to the left, for the road divided Iwelei into two parts, and you found yourself in the district. There were rows of little bungalows, trim and neatly painted in green, and the pathway between them was broad and straight. It was laid out like a garden-city.
"She came on board at Honolulu. It's obvious. And she's carrying on her trade here. Here." He uttered the last word with a passion of indignation. "What's Iwelei?" asked Mrs Macphail. He turned his gloomy eyes on her and his voice trembled with horror. "The plague spot of Honolulu. The Red Light district. It was a blot on our civilisation." Iwelei was on the edge of the city.
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