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rather than to follow Dr. Selwyn-larke's urgent wish that I should remain with the housekeeper in the empty building at St. Stephen's. The latter idea was a curious one, and Kr. Oda also thought it wiser for me to make the move, and arranged all necessary formalities for
There again he showed me ever kinimese and made everything easy for me.
The French Convent, or ospital of t. Paul is a huge place, a vast compound in Sanchal, the poorer part of Hongkon, containing a member of buildings and more than a thousand people. It is built around the three sides of a very large piece of lam, about four to five acres, and has 2 number of buildings for the religious community, the nurses and doctors, the hospital, the orphanage, the reche, the Chapel, the school, The Mother superior is a wonderful old woman, seventy five years of age, looking not a day over sixty, as hale and hearty and efficient, with as dominating a personality as you could find anywhere. She has that whole situation in hand, including the fact that the place had to be rut on a paying basis. The Japanese are rapidly running out of fo 4, and to find rice and everything else for a group of people of that size requires executive ability What is supplied by the Ja-aneec is entirely inadequate, and the situation shows every sign of becoming worse, not better. So it was made clear to me that I would be expected ted to pay my way and we agreed upon the sum of $150 a month for room and board, the room was about the most comfortable one in the Creohe, well furnished an the food def1:1tely odd at times, but not too bad, The Cruche was under the supervision of Sister ita, a Portuguese sister of 27 years standin. She had charge of all the babies, foundlinge, who were turned in st the convent, and she proudly counted grandchildren eong her protegees, having raised the fathers and mothers and turned them into useful citizens, now proud parents themselves,
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She was a wonderful woman, sister Dita, not afraid of anyone, Japanese included. In fact, ora of her exploits the month before had been to refuse admittance to a Japanese gentiarm and two Chire se detectives who came in plain clothes to arrest a malthy Chinese who had taken refuge in the Creche, with his Prench wife and four children. As the Japanese came at ten o'clock at night, without credentials of any sort, she quite rightly refused him admittande, and told him that she could not allow strange men in her Greche at that hour; she was responsible for the safety of more than one handred people who lived in the building end maybe they were armed robbers.
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The Jupare ac, in a furious rage, to doing what they like in longkong, promptly went to the Ordarmerie, who telephoned that "isk - nita, Dr. Golwyn-Clark, and the chief Chinese doctor at once report to explain and apologize to the dendarm, sister Mito's discription of the party of four, Sister (saille accompanied her on the midnight sxoursion, is toe priceless. "We walked and walked," she said, ". Bleyn- lark and 'r. lin, Sister Camille and I. "The entries kept flashing their borghlight in our faces, w thougt we would rever get there. Te finally did. We sat down in a circle, three enderme and ourselves, Poor Dr. Selwyn-Clerk had been got out of bed. He did not even know what it was all about. Dr. im talked, I set, I said not ig. All the time I said nothing, I thought I had better
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