![]() And it seemed at this very minute some sound startled my sister, and she looked about her, and I heard a faint echoing laughter come from the darkness of the stairs.Ĭaptain Kemal says this is it, and I have the map from the Russian. One hand on the wheel, Sam gave Hully half a smile.I thought of those small beings I had seen for an instant at the castle gates. I'll tell General Short you want an appointment, Monday morning." 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.įielder crushed his cigarette out in a little metal ashtray. 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 think you're doing the right thing," Burroughs said. Still, much of mis eluded the average haole, particularly the typical tourist, because on the one hand, Hawaii worked hard at its Polynesian image-Waikiki wallowed in it-and on the other, Hawaii was insistent upon its American status, indignantly reminding forgetful mainlanders that they were in the United States, not some foreign land.Īnd Colonel Fielder headed toward the tavern and its parking lot. 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. I'm positive this call means something-something's definitely in the wind. These Moris are on my list of potentially disloyal Japs. Then I'll meet with him on his goddamn front porch. What do you think her uncle's likely to know? Sam Fujimoto asked. "I told you, Adam- the general has plans for the evening." Nodding, Fielder rose the two men shook hands. Pearl sure seemed like an all-American girl. The slender, smoothly handsome nisei-black hair trimmed military short (he was in ROTC at the Manoa campus)-was casual at the wheel of his dark blue '38 Ford convertible sedan his sportshirt was a lighter blue, his trousers white, his shoes the slippers so common on the island (Hully was wearing a pair himself). The FBI man gulped down the rest of his rum punch. "She was one-she was born in Frisco, right?" One hand on the wheel, Sam gave Hully half a smile. ![]() Wooch, damnit, man-I have a sick feeling about this."Ĭoast haoles saw only the Orient, a nonspecific Asia crammed into a few blocks-sleazy storefronts and Shinto shrines, silk shops and tattoo parlors, bathhouses and Buddhist temples, live chickens and dead ducks, coffee shops and chop suey joints, incense and strangely aromatic spices mingling with the sickly-sweet perfume of the nearby pineapple canneries and the salty stench of the marshlands below the city. ![]() but the general tone of the conversation, in light of suspicious activity by a German 'sleeper' agent, and the Jap Consulate burning their papers. "The only people in her life that we know, too, are musicians, hotel staff and guests."Ĭolonel, Sterling said, "I can't agree-I know nothing here can be clearly defined as manifestly dangerous to security. ![]() You and I, we only knew Pearl through the Niumalu, Hully said. 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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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