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that she _did
    not_ want to be a prostitute what would be done?' They answered,
    'No girl would _dare_ to say this _when she had been bought_.' We
    asked the girl who talked English over again about this, and she
    said the same.

    "All the places of infamy reserved for the use of Europeans which
    we visited in Hong Kong, were within three minutes' walk of
    Victoria Hotel, in the very busiest part of the city. Close by our
    hotel were such world-famed shops as 'Watson and Co.,' 'Kelly and
    Walsh,' etc.; a short distance down the street were the Postoffice
    and the Supreme Court buildings. The respectable English residents
    of Hong Kong cannot go about the streets of the city without
    seeing these places; there are draper-shops and other places
    visited daily and hourly by respectable foreigners and natives,
    occupying the ground floor of these brothels. The fine new
    building of the Girls' High School, under the management of the
    Government, is within five minutes' walk; yet all these brothels
    are glaringly numbered, as registered by the city, in huge figures
    eight or ten inches high, of red on a white background, painted
    on the doors of the stairways leading to the second story of the
    buildings occupied by these shops. The school children cannot pass
    by without noting these officially numbered houses, and seeing
    the girls sitting at all hours of the day and into the night
    conspicuously in the balconies over the shops of drapers, grocers,
    tailors, silk-merchants, shoe-dealers, &c., &c., and of