Being seen on the streets in those days was flirting with death. There were snipers in some of the houses during the early part of the trouble, and the Japanese sentries at the bridges had orders to shoot on sight anyone abroad after 6 pin. At night the weird flames of many fires added to the terror of the situation. Yet Foo and little Yoong carried on with stoical unconcern, eating and sleeping and pottering about their crumbling home, until finally the shadow of death lifted.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.