to be held down in that manner. A lesser man might have given up the fight. Everyone was waiting for him back in the homeland. Wealth, comfort, ease—all were his if he would agree to return to Canada and settle down. Had he done so, not a voice could have been raised against him, for he was a sick man. Common sense said that he did not belong in China. But he was a fighter, so he stayed on and got the work done. How he got it done was of little consequence. For all his physical handicaps and his
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