This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI: AN HOUR'S WEAKNESS MR. MATSU drove his car with a certain brilliant technic in keeping with his handsome and adventurous personality, but the knotty little man beside him held his peace. Only his eyes were alive, winking, winking in the broad sunlight. Shimba was not a communicative man, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI: AN HOUR'S WEAKNESS MR. MATSU drove his car with a certain brilliant technic in keeping with his handsome and adventurous personality, but the knotty little man beside him held his peace. Only his eyes were alive, winking, winking in the broad sunlight. Shimba was not a communicative man, even for a Japanese, and this morning he uttered not a word until Matsu had driven out of the orchard road and into the main street of Bly. "Stop at Sago-san's general store," he commanded rudely. Matsu, being used to his partner's ways, merely nodded and guided his car carefully through the teeming street. It was Saturday afternoon, and an off day on the fruit farms; therefore the yellow people had come thronging into the settlement to buy their week's supplies, to consult the pastor of the Japanese church, to admire the outrageous foreign comedy of Charlie Chaplin at the tiny motion-picture theater beyond the packing house. The handsome new building, now nearing completion on the lot just opposite the Methodist church, had attracted a crowd. Otherwise as severe in outline as a New England meeting house, it was adorned at the roof peak with an ornamental lotos emblem which an Oriental house painter, swinging aloft from block and tackle, was touching up with a coat of gilt. A motor truck had backed up against the door and from its tailboard a troupe of gigantic Americans were hauling big crates marked with Japanese labels as well as the English address, "Oriental Buddhist Church, Bly, Cal." "Honorably tell me, Osaki-san," said Matsu politely, stopping his car beside a little old man in a red sweater, "has the altar arrived now?" "The honorable altar of Buddha, Matsu-san," replied the farmer, bowing and raising his straw hat. "Bought with the...
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