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THE "PIMPS* CLUB" AT SINGAPORE 115
as an undesirable. She went somehow, and
set to work to find her lover. He knew she
was serving twelve months', and knew also
the date of Tier release, but he was determined
that he would be no more troubled with her,
as he had now become enamoured of a pretty,
fair girl at Cape Town. He departed with
her for a rest-cure to Siam, where he lived
for some months in security on the ill-gotten
gains of this girl, whom he compelled to
charm a high native personage in Siam,
having found that this dusky princelet had
plenty of money for the girl with the
golden hair. The German monster was "in
clover." But the old Johannesburg woman,
now released from her sentence, tracked the
pair by land and sea, until she landed in
in Siam. Infuriated and maddened
Bangkok
by jealousy and bad usage, she pleaded, with
tears and sighs, with her former master to
abandon the Cape Town girl, and come back
to her ; but he refused. Driven to bay, the
Johannesburg woman began to fight with
the new favourite, and made things so hot
for the German that he retreated to Java,
taking all the belongings of the two women.
The Cape Town girl took to drink, and descended
by rapid steps to the Chinese quarter,
where she was murdered, and the Johannesburg
woman became the mistress of an
Englishman and amused herself by smuggling
opium.
The "pimps'* make themselves extremely
agreeable at first to the girls whom they wish