It was the only thing
to do.
"What did Mazarine do or say to you that made you run away? Come now,
didn't you first make up your mind to go to Slow Down Ranch--to Orlando?"
She flushed. "Yes, but only for a minute. Then I thought of you,
because I knew you could help me as no one else could. Everybody
believes in you. But then Li Choo--"
"Oh, Li Choo! So Li Choo comes into this, eh? So he said fly to
Orlando, eh? Well, that's what he would do. But why Li Choo--
a Chinaman? Tell me, what does Li Choo know?"
Quickly she told him the story of the day when Joel Mazarine had almost
surprised her in Orlando's room; how Li Choo had saved the situation by
falling down the staircase with the priceless porcelain, and how Mazarine
had kicked him--"manhandled" him, as they say in the West.
"Chinamen don't like being kicked, especially Chinamen of Li Choo's
station," remarked the Young Doctor meditatively. "You don't know, of
course, that Li Choo was a prince or a big bug of some sort in his own
country.
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