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Updated: May 7, 2025
The only reason which has led me to adopt this daring disguise is a simple one. Although I believe 'The Pidgin House' to be open to ordinary opium-smokers, it may not be open on 'lodge nights. Do you follow me? Very well. I have the golden scorpion which I suppose to be a sort of passport."
She turned on the landing and laughed. "When I came back from abroad, you begged me to rid myself of foreign affectations," she announced. "He was one of them and I took your advice." "I only begged you to drop your affectations of speech. What I called your pidgin English," he assured her. "I didn't seek to hamper your young affections."
Humbly I answered, "My belong Jesus Christ pidgin"; that is, I am a missionary, to which he instantly and with some scorn replied, "No dam fear!" We called at the river ports and reached Hankow on the 14th. Hankow, the Chinese say, is the mart of eight provinces and the centre of the earth. It is the chief distributing centre of the Yangtse valley, the capital city of the centre of China.
She was seated, and a saleswoman was exclaiming discreetly at her elbow. Eva turned sharply and encountered her own saleswoman returning hat-laden. "Not today," she gasped. "I'm feeling ill. Suddenly." And almost ran from the room. That evening she told Stell, relating her news in that telephone pidgin English devised by every family of married sisters as protection against the neighbors.
"In that bag," he continued, "is a suit of clothes such as habitues of 'The Pidgin House' rejoice to wear. I, who have studied disguise almost as deeply as the great Willy Clarkson, will transform you into a perfect ruffian. It is important, you understand, that someone should be inside the house of Ah-Fang-Fu, as otherwise by means of some secret exit the man we seek may escape.
"He understood my first question. You can't draw wool over my eyes. He knows well enough. Are you going to answer me?" he demanded, angrily, of the Chinaman. "No sabby, master," he said, glancing aside at Colin Camber. "Number- one p'licee-man gotchee no pidgin."
"D'you think I'm going to wait 'ere while you prods about in all the blasted lot? It's damn near high tide I shan't get out. 'Alf time! Savvy? Shove it on the scales!" Sin Sin Wa shook his head. "Too muchee slick. Too muchee bhobbery," he murmured. "Sin Sin Wa gotchee sabby what him catchee buy or no pidgin." "What's the game?" inquired George menacingly.
He began to cry, and in five minutes had blurted out the whole thing. Self-preservation is the first law, and he had, besides, some dim conception of State's evidence. Skiddy made the conception clearer, and promised him immunity if he would make a clean breast of it. This the Chinaman forthwith did in his laborious pidgin.
"That is what makes their pidgin English so quaint," answered Miss Briggs. "Ping says the horses don't care for any more water," announced Nora, returning with two empty buckets. "Pass them down," directed Hippy. "We will fill everything in camp, including ourselves."
His English was execrable far worse than Chinese pidgin and he had an unhappy and disconcerting manner of intermingling German and English words, while either through a physical defect or from some other cause, he could not pronounce his consonants correctly. I was taken through the usual rigmarole such as I had at first experienced at Goch. The evidence also, as usual, was committed to paper.
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