Frank Norris
The Third Circle
MP3 CD
(IDB Productions Jan. 1, 2019)
The Third Circle
There are more things in San Francisco’s Chinatown than are dreamed of
in Heaven and earth. In reality there are three parts of Chinatown—the
part the guides show you, the part the guides don’t show you, and the
part that no one ever hears of. It is with the latter part that this
story has to do. There are a good many stories that might be written
about this third circle of Chinatown, but believe me, they never will be
written—at any rate not until the "town" has been, as it were, drained
off from the city, as one might drain a noisome swamp, and we shall be
able to see the strange, dreadful life that wallows down there in the
lowest ooze of the place—wallows and grovels there in the mud and in the
dark. If you don’t think this is true, ask some of the Chinese
detectives (the regular squad are not to be relied on), ask them to tell
you the story of the Lee On Ting affair, or ask them what was done to
old Wong Sam, who thought he could break up the trade in slave girls, or
why Mr. Clarence Lowney (he was a clergyman from Minnesota who believed
in direct methods) is now a "dangerous" inmate of the State Asylum—ask
them to tell you why Matsokura, the Japanese dentist, went back to his
home lacking a face—ask them to tell you why the murderers of Little
Pete will never be found, and ask them to tell you about the little
slave girl, Sing Yee, or—no, on the second thought, don’t ask for that
story.
The tale I am to tell you now began some twenty years ago in a See Yup
restaurant on Waverly Place—long since torn down—where it will end I do
not know. I think it is still going on. It began when young Hillegas
and Miss Ten Eyck (they were from the East, and engaged to be married)
found their
There are more things in San Francisco’s Chinatown than are dreamed of
in Heaven and earth. In reality there are three parts of Chinatown—the
part the guides show you, the part the guides don’t show you, and the
part that no one ever hears of. It is with the latter part that this
story has to do. There are a good many stories that might be written
about this third circle of Chinatown, but believe me, they never will be
written—at any rate not until the "town" has been, as it were, drained
off from the city, as one might drain a noisome swamp, and we shall be
able to see the strange, dreadful life that wallows down there in the
lowest ooze of the place—wallows and grovels there in the mud and in the
dark. If you don’t think this is true, ask some of the Chinese
detectives (the regular squad are not to be relied on), ask them to tell
you the story of the Lee On Ting affair, or ask them what was done to
old Wong Sam, who thought he could break up the trade in slave girls, or
why Mr. Clarence Lowney (he was a clergyman from Minnesota who believed
in direct methods) is now a "dangerous" inmate of the State Asylum—ask
them to tell you why Matsokura, the Japanese dentist, went back to his
home lacking a face—ask them to tell you why the murderers of Little
Pete will never be found, and ask them to tell you about the little
slave girl, Sing Yee, or—no, on the second thought, don’t ask for that
story.
The tale I am to tell you now began some twenty years ago in a See Yup
restaurant on Waverly Place—long since torn down—where it will end I do
not know. I think it is still going on. It began when young Hillegas
and Miss Ten Eyck (they were from the East, and engaged to be married)
found their
- ISBN
- 1776785819 / 9781776785810
- Weight
- 3.5 oz.
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 5.5 in.
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