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Wild Youth
Volume Complete

CHAPTER XI
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"You don't know, of course, that Li Choo was a prince or a big bug of some sort in his own country.

Why he left China I don't know, but I do chance to know that if another Chinky meets Li Choo carrying a basket on his shoulders, or a package in his hand, he kow-tows, and takes it away from him, and carries it himself....

No, I don't know why Li Choo is here in Askatoon, or why he's such a slave to Mrs.Mazarine; but I do know that he's a different-looking man when a Chinky runs up against him than when he's choring at Tralee.

A sick Chinaman told me only a week ago that Li Choo was 'once big high boss Chinaman in Pekin.'...

And so the mandarin advised you to fly to Orlando, did he?
I wonder if it's a way they have in China." "But I wouldn't go.


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