The FBI man gulped down the rest of his rum punch. Pearl sure seemed like an all-American girl. "The only people in her life that we know, too, are musicians, hotel staff and guests." You and I, we only knew Pearl through the Niumalu, Hully said.
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And, anyway, you didn't have to be terribly aware to notice the dozens of Japanese teahouses, or the kimono shops, or the sake breweries, the Japanese-language newspapers, fish-cake factories, movie houses.
He knew that Japanese owned many of the restaurants in Honolulu, that they repaired most cars and built most houses, that they worked behind most retail counters. I'll tell General Short you want an appointment, Monday morning."īut despite the name, in Chinatown, the Japanese (and the Filipinos, too, for that matter) vastly outnumbered the Chinese, though the white tourists, coming and going from the main port at the foot of Nuuanu Street, rarely knew the difference, much less noticed how the Japanese and Chinese merchants kept their distance from each other, even when jammed side by side. "A lot of my generation do."įielder crushed his cigarette out in a little metal ashtray. My feeling is, she distanced herself from anything. Sam had never dated Pearl, but he knew her a littie, had spoken to her a few times. Wooch, damnit, man-I have a sick feeling about this." but the general tone of the conversation, in light of suspicious activity by a German 'sleeper' agent, and the Jap Consulate burning their papers. "See you there."Ĭolonel, Sterling said, "I can't agree-I know nothing here can be clearly defined as manifestly dangerous to security. Nodding, Fielder rose the two men shook hands. But she used to live with her uncle, in Chinatown, when she first moved to Oahu-that could open up a whole new world of friends and acquaintances.
Can you meet me at my quarters at six o'clock?" "Yes. He finished off his rum punch and said, "All right, you stubborn s.o.b. The Oriental neighborhood had been staked out many decades before by Chinese workers fleeing the sugar and pineapple plantations, marking off this triangle of downtown Honolulu-Nuuanu Street on the southeast, North Beretania Street on the northeast, South King Street as the hypotenuse-for small retail businesses and restaurants.įielder sighed heavily. Second, he needed a tour guide-because, despite whatever scant familiarity he had with local Asian customs, Hully felt that would not be enough for where he needed to go.Ĭhinatown.
First, he needed wheels-his father had taken the Pierce Arrow to the Shriner game. This afternoon, Hully needed his friend's help, for two reasons. For a Coast haole (as mainlanders were referred to), Hully Burroughs had a better-than-average understanding of Hawaii's Japanese community.
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