The host signed to one of the servants ta bring up the bookkeeper again, and after a word or two he disappeared, to return a short while with another mysterious which proved to be one hundred dollars for the Opium Refuge. As soon as dinner was over the host sat down atu side table and wrote down his thousand dollar an option, and then handing the hook nly Ch'anushu guest present, insisted thathe should subscribe also, He refused at first, but finally wrote down Gfty dol'arsani got even with the host by promptly borrowing that amount from him to pay the supe scription. Our host then provided as couple of mandarin four-men chairs an runners with red-vesveled hats, coed: di with n long list of calls that had be thos" who knew who eulthy men of the t Most of the men on who we ruled were "out," but we foun one man who have fifty dollars, So after another feas* at the house of a friend, we retire! to curb int, very well pleased, for we considered $1,200 not bad for one day's work.
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