Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-08-14
By Achmed Abdullah

iou Sddie W pray oiuiiSu eN
priest. e
Not at all. l came to converse.
The Californian sat down. Also x
ask your advice. oh wise and Older
brother"
"Ah-?"
About a point of ethics-which il
disturbing me-
Tell me-" encouraged the priest.
1T would be dishonorable for a law
yer to take fees from both parties tx
a guardian I not right?'
Decidedly"
"And-I %suppose-it would be just
as dishonorable for a Ratchet mar
to-?p
They" interrupted Yu Chang
excitedly-"they came to you"
Both Yesterday. With hate II
their hearts-and money in theil
hands.
All" breathed the priest.
He stood there with bowed head
deep in thought. Then, all at once, hi
laughed. He went to the door.
Where are you going?" asked thu
other.
For a stroll"
AI tlllS llOul-lilC llOul VI pldyCl-
came the hooking query, leaving YOU
elegant Buddha to look after himself?'
mo. I am taking the Buddha with
me-in my SOUL"
He left.
Watching from the window, Chu HaI
saw the priests tall, thin figure eros.
Pell street and enter the ORR West
ern Union place. What was he gOin{
to do in there? The Ratchet mar
wondered. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
to break Chinatown'S unwritten law
to appeal to the white mans police
No, no; the Ratchet a shook hi.
head. 1t was not like the priest. HI
walked to the altar and kotowed sever
times.
"Oh, excellent Buddha," he mumbled
Il am not sure that / believe in thee
Yet belize, after my death, l may neee
thy help so that my spirit may leal
the dragon gate. Behold, oh Buddha
this day l have accumulated merit
and'-he s~ighed-"lost twice three
thousand dollars thereby"
And he lit ar incense stick anf
chanted:
."Om ma-no pad-mi, hong-hail
Jewel IN the LOtuS!
A few minutes later he went to thu
Honorable Pavilion of Tranquil Lon.
gevity in search of opium and ric'
whisky and gossip. He found all three
OF this and that ran the gossip. Ais
of Si-Si. Delightful she was. But
eighty thousand dollars? A lot O.
m%oney-and those two, Cheng Sun{
and Kee Wong, breaking their heart
because Of her-alsO their p~ocketbooks
Speculative they were, Cheng Sung IL
ginger and Kee Wong in tea, and botl
losing money.
Ah-tOo bad-too bad!
The men sighed.
Then the priest entered. He walker
straight up to Yung Long, the grocer
and addressed him:
"You we're right, oh brother very
wise and very old"
Right about what?"
about what you said some time ago
Matter and spirit. Matter, too, counts
when used by the just spirit. Ever
matter can serve the Buddha's pur
pose"
He laughed; would not vouchsafe
reply to the others question as t
what he meant. He called for opium
leaned back comfortably; smoked.
Yung Long was puzzled. So, durin|
the next few days, vas all Chinatown
puzzled. Gossip was afoot. What hat
come over the priest? What was h
up to?
Formerly he had kept away from
most worldly contacts. Now he wa
running around like a tidy whirlwind
was seen entering Fanny Nays apart
ment; was seen, one morning, hurry
ing up Fifth avenue; was seen in ami
mated conversation with Widow Go
danzky, the Bowery pawnbroker; wa
seen buttonhOling Tony Cufari, tn
Greek usurer round the corner on Null
berry street; Vas seen talking to She.
Mok, to Detective Flu, even to the Rev
Wilfrid Smyth, the preacher at tn
Pell street Baptist mission chapel wh(
these many years, had been trying t
towns tough, yellow heathendom-wh
had found only a handful of converts
among them, incidentally, Shen Mok.
Yes. Chinatown saw Christia
preacher and Buddhist priest.
The former said:
"You are a fine man. Why are 70
not a Christian?"
The other rejoined:
you, too, are a fine Why al
you not a Buddhist"
They laughed. They shook hand
And Chinatown watched. Chinatow
specialized and wondered-speculate
and wondered yet more when, on tt
next Saturday afternoon, Nag Hor
Fab came running into the Honorab
Pavilion of Tranquil Longevity, excite
out Of breath, crying:
"Quick-quick-cOme-"
"Where?"
ITO the mission chapel-the wee
ding!"
"Whose?"
Look" Nag Hong Fab rushed
the window and pointed. Here thu
are!"
The others, too, hurried to the wiz
dows. They leaned out. They sa'
coming down the street, Shen M
dressed neatly in a Tuxedo borrowt
from a BoWery acquaintance, while
his side, demure and lovely, trippt
Si-Si, decked out in the bridal fine,
Of Canton, complete from loose, cher
red trousers to the immense hea,
dress made of seed pearl and iligr
ornaments hanging down to her mario
shoulders. Behind the couple walk
Yu Chang. the priest, escorting Fam
Nag, beaming broadly proudly on Il
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