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424 - Did they appear to be servants of Sam Iu or friends ?

A- They appeared to be friends.

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You gathered that from what they spoke to you ?

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A‡ They did not talk very much.

Lecent resUMOR 1–

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As picked out 3 books, and I said you had better do the copy-

· -ing there ( pointing to a table behind me ).

" Sham Iu and his brother Sham Loi were sitting on the same table

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innediately opposite each other. The other man was sitting on a

· separate table by himself behind Shan Iul They each had a book.

"They had the books less than † an hour. I was strolling behind

" Sham Loi and saw him making some notes from one book all the

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time, but after they had had the books for about 1 of an hour, I

said to Shan Iu " What notes have you made ? And he said he

❤ was looking for certain items. I then went to the other man sit-

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-ting on a separate table to see what notes he had unde, and he

10 gave a similar reply. A few minutes later Shan Loi had finished

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taking notes and I said to him Have you finished ? ". He said

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18 I then said you had better shut the book, and be off *

He left. I then tried to follow what Shan lu was looking for,

and I noticed that he had copied out nothing but merely going

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through the book from beginning to end. I said

what notes have

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you made ? you have not made any notes and are looking at itens

dated back to March 1905. Surely you don't want to take down

itana of accounts from dates so far back, to pay your coolies

He said he was going through the different items, and I said :-

No,

you must not do that. The permission given you was to take

down items of recent dates to enable you to pay your men or to

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render accounts to people. You can't be allowed to go beyond

that without specific permission from Hr Lau Chủ Pat. If you

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