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that evening for the purpose of speaking to him on a very important matter, and that being so he did not consider the Police office a proper place for such conversation. He then asked him
175. DeSouza, if he remembered some one Police Inspectors speaking to him about the Licencing Jinrickenas,
and if he had handed back the money that was offered him on Sunday night, it seemed to him that his Chinese friends had been looking on him with suspicion for some days.
which he Lam Pak-mi replied that he had handed back the money to his friends the same evening;
that the sum was $50, but that it was his friends' intention, if DeSouza could get them 150 licences, that they would give him $150, and although they had only got 50, they still intended to make him a present, but not in the form of money.
He then expressed his regret at having been the cause of so much annoyance, but that his friends had called on him several times recently