[Wild Youth Volume Complete by Gilbert Parker]@TWC D-Link bookWild Youth Volume Complete CHAPTER XI 12/20
"Yes, but only for a minute.
Then I thought of you, because I knew you could help me as no one else could.
Everybody believes in you.
But then Li Choo--" "Oh, Li Choo! So Li Choo comes into this, eh? So he said fly to Orlando, eh? Well, that's what he would do.
But why Li Choo--a Chinaman? Tell me, what does Li Choo know ?" Quickly she told him the story of the day when Joel Mazarine had almost surprised her in Orlando's room; how Li Choo had saved the situation by falling down the staircase with the priceless porcelain, and how Mazarine had kicked him--"manhandled" him, as they say in the West. "Chinamen don't like being kicked, especially Chinamen of Li Choo's station," remarked the Young Doctor meditatively.
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