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`` Very ; they do work for me at twenty-five shillings a week that white men would not do at all -- no matter what you offered them : emptying sludge-pits , building dams , etc. '' `` Exactly ! And now all the people who rose up and howled at you for employing Chinamen , and the _ Champion _ for backing you up , are shouting themselves hoarse in your praise . And the revival of Chinkie 's Flat , and the new rushes all round about it , have added very materially to the wealth of this town . '' After a little further conversation , Grainger went back to the Queen 's Hotel , where Mallard was to call at three o'clock . Myra Grainger , a small , slenderly-built girl of nineteen , looked up as he entered the sitting-room . `` Any success , Ted ? '' `` Here , look at this advertisement .