The Case of the Backward Mule

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   Copartners, with Farnsworth, in the Eastern Art Import and Trading Company, an organization which lost a lot of money but reaped a lot of profits

Bill Hendrum

   Always cheering for the underdog

Sou Ha

   Chinese girl who knows some Occidental tricks

Chu Kee

   Her father, who has a proverb and a solution for most situations

Sam Kenton

   Farnworth’s man-about-the-house

Inspector Malloy

   Who talks and talks and talks

As the big steamer eased her way through the Golden Gate, the western sun high-lighted the sides of San Francisco’s buildings until the city seemed to be all white, rising in stately splendor from the blue water.

Terry Clane, returning from the Orient, fought back an impulse of exultation.

Steeped in the philosophy of those wise men who dwelt in hidden monasteries where studies might be pursued in peace, Clane knew that triumph and defeat were body impostors, that success and failure were but different facets of the same jewel. Yet he knew also that here in San Francisco mere was work to be done — dangerous work, and he was eager to get at it, eager to see once more his native land.

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