The coolie had come back.
That. may not mean anything to the reader, but it involves a lot us, for the coolie is like the shadow in Japanese drama, provides a lit comic relief for Wong in his more ponderous moments, does all Wong's work and generally walks through life suffering from a Wong complex. We get the same way some times, when we know we have offended his Highness, but the coolie is in a state of chronic diffidence, a tegulur Uriah Heep for utility, someone who was born umble and has a profound realization of hi position. That's why he laughs the coarser forms of Wong's hun. jour—a servile snigger—why when his chief is away he attempts tne Same swagger, the same lordly nic with us, as if we did not know that directly Wong returns 1 raven in peacock's feathers will crawl back into his shell, But, as we were saying, the coolie had returned.
Tt was Wong who arranged his going away. Wong who brought nin to us and explained that "Just now coolie wantchee mall
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.