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here and by the kind
    treatment she herself received. Later on she purchased for $120
    a little baby girl. She grew to love the tiny waif, and when at
    length troubles of many kinds drove her to sudden flight across
    the ocean, instead of selling the baby she brought it to this Home
    of happy memory and asked that we keep it always.

    No. 4. How Wan. A frail young girl with bound feet was brought to
    this country to be the wife of a man who had died while she was
    en route. Refused a landing, she was detained in the Mission by
    immigration officials, while the young man's parents made frantic
    efforts to secure her admission to the country. She remained here,
    a prisoner, for two years. Thousands of dollars were expended
    without avail, and How Wan was deported. Nothing daunted, they
    accompanied her as far as Japan, and returned with her, secured a
    license and landed her as a merchant's wife. She lived with
    the family in a dark basement on Sacramento street, where the
    mother-in-law abused her with such cruelty that, shrinking girl as
    she is, she found courage to send word to us if we did not come
    to her rescue she must relieve herself by suicide--the Chinese
    woman's only hope. We began at once to plan to get her taken