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Wild Youth
Volume Complete

CHAPTER XI
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"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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