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the suffering
    and weariness of her life in Chinatown. Her master sent many
    emissaries to the Home with offers of bribes, and many promises
    of better treatment in the future, but all these overtures were
    rejected, and when at length the matter of guardianship came up,
    there was no one present to claim the child but her new friends at
    the Mission Home.

    No. 3. Suey Ying. Our dear baby was surely sent to dispel any
    clouds of sadness which may be hovering round, for she takes all
    of life as a huge joke. And where did Suey Ying come from? From a
    part of Chinatown, dear friend, that you would not dare to enter,
    and the strangest thing about her coming is that she was carried
    to the Home by a fugitive slave woman, who was escaping to China.
    Long ago this woman had spent a day or two in the Mission and was
    impressed by the happy life of the children 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 b