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Updated: May 4, 2025
Thus one learned that the main body of the service staff was Chinese under a major domo named Shaik Tsin Chou Nu's "second-uncle" who enjoyed Prince Victor's completest confidence and was, second to the latter only, the real head of the establishment, its presiding genius.
That is about the way such changes happen. If by chance you are in the good graces of heathendom, you will be given an involved and fancy reason for the departure. These generally have to do with the mysterious movements of relatives. "My second-uncle, he come on ship to San Flancisco. I got to show him what to do," explains Ah Sing.
At length, however, the connection was established; and Victor, hearing the falsetto of Chou Nu's second-uncle cheerily respond to the operator's query, unceremoniously broke in: "Shaik Tsin? It is I, Number One. And the devil's own time I've had getting through. Why didn't you answer more promptly? What's the matter? Has anything gone wrong?"
How it could have got there she could not imagine ... unless Chou Nu had dropped it by inadvertence, which seemed as far-fetched as to suppose she had left it there by design; for that would mean Chou Nu had been bribed to convey a surreptitious note to her mistress; and Sofia knew that the Chinese girl was at once too loyal to her "second-uncle," and too much in awe of "Number One," to be corruptible.
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