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Updated: May 16, 2025
"Leave those things on the table in the big room understand?" "Me savee," grunted Wang, moving off. Heyst watched the Chinaman disappear from the veranda. It was not till he had seen Wang come out that he himself entered the twilight of the big room. By that time Wang was out of sight at the back of the house, but by no means out of hearing.
"Wal," retorted Arizona, bending to his work again, "I do allow ther's more savee in that tip than most gener'ly slobbers off'n your tongue. I'll kind o' turn it over some." Jacob's grin broadened. "Guess I should. Your plug ain't been saddled sence you wus sent sick. Soft soap ain't gener'ly in your line; makes me laff to see you handlin' it." "That's so," observed the other, imperturbably.
But in all of his characters he had an unconstrained contempt for Chinese, and delighted in ridiculing and frightening them. In the part of a bullock-driver he drew up his team in front of a store. The manager shouted "Don't want that load here, Harry! You tak 'em to back store. You savee?" The "savee" touched Harry's dignity. "What for you say savee? You take me for a blurry Chinaman?"
He catch you blurry quick. That fella stop one place. We two fella go up alongside. Cap'n he say 'Hold up your hand. Le' me look your hand? He hold up hand. Quick we put 'em han'cup. That fella no savee han'cup before. He bin sing out loud loud like anything. We two fella laugh plenty. Mr Limsee tie 'em up hand longa tree, and belt him proper. Belt him plenty longa whip.
"What's frightening you away like this?" asked Heyst, while through his mind flashed the hope that something enlightening might come from that being so unlike himself, taking contact with the world with a simplicity and directness of which his own mind was not capable. "Why?" he went on. "You are used to white men. You know them well." "Yes. Me savee them," assented Wang inscrutably.
Now he wanted to be done with him. "What's your story? I'll pay you the price," he cried, with utter contempt. But the man wanted added assurance. "Sure?" he cried eagerly. "You're goin' to get me with the rest? Savee? You're goin' to get me, an' when you get me, you're goin' to give me twenty-four hours' free run for the border?" "If I get you you can go free for twenty-four hours."
"Say," the other went on at once, "ther's suthin' doin' thick 'tween Jake an' blind hulks. Savee? I heerd Jake an' Miss Dianny gassin' at the barn one day. She wus ther' gittin' her bit of a shoe fixed by Jacob him allus fixin' her shoes for her when they needs it an' Jake come along and made her go right in an' look at the new driver he wus breakin' fer her.
The Chinaman, gazing sad and speechless into the darkness of the hatchway, seemed to stand at the head of a yawning grave. "No catchee rain down there savee?" pointed out Jukes. "Suppose all'ee same fine weather, one piecie coolie-man come topside," he pursued, warming up imaginatively. "Make so Phooooo!" He expanded his chest and blew out his cheeks. "Savee, John? Breathe fresh air. Good. Eh?
I ain't finished by a sight, an' you'll hear from me agin'. I don't fancy yer life," he went on with a grin. "Et's too easy, I guess. Et's yer bills I'm after. Ye've got plenty an' to spare. But bills is all-fired awk'ud to handle when they pass thro' your dirty hands. So I'll wait till you've turned 'em into stock. Savee? I'm jest goin' right on now.
You bein' a 'tenderfoot, I'll jest mention you're side-tracked, you're most on the scrap heap, you've left the sheer trail an' you're ditched. You've hit a gait you can't travel, an' don't amount to a decent, full-sized jackass. Savee? I ain't drunk. It's drink; see? Carney's rotgut. I tell you right here I'm sober, but my legs ain't. Mebbe you're that fool-headed you don't savee the difference."
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