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Of all the immigrants for whom America eventually became a permanent home,

perhaps none were so manipulated or suffered as many indignities as the

Though 12 ,000 of them built the western half of the transcontinental railroad.

They were not permitted to become citizens of this country, and they had

rights whatsoever.

They could not even testify against a white man in court.

And seven years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed black slaves, naked

Chinese girls were being sold at auction to their own countrymen on the streets

of San Francisco.

But with famine sweeping China, still they came at their thousands, seeking

for their bellies and hope for the future.

In the beginning, they often labored 16 hours a day for as little as 20 cents.

That they somehow survived these hardships to become a vital part of a

America is one of the finest and proudest chronicles in the history of

Every year, there is the Feast of Ching Ming.

And we honor you, ancestors, with offerings in yellow papers.

I honor you now.

But there are only stones in the papers, and there is no food for a feed.

I must leave the flowery kingdom and take my family to a place far away where

there is plenty.

It is called America.

We can make our fortunes there and never be in want again.

But I will return to China, to this shrine.

and bring you gold coins and sweet cakes, my spirit will not wander a

land.

Will you also take to the road?

Soon. There will be no more food here.

I've heard the old speak of it.

The whole village is marching, eating even the grass along the way, eating

the mud from the rivers.

You know, if I could, I would marry you now and keep you

with me.

Much better. Bring your family through this time.

You had to feed me.

It might mean all would die.

If not for them, I would go with you.

They'd rather die in China than live elsewhere.

This time will not last forever.

I will never see you again.

Yes.

I will follow you. I promise.

So, you will not forget me.

It's too valuable.

It is.

The most valuable thing the Keys own.

Too valuable ever to let out of my family.

I will follow.

And I will send your father a thousand cakes to compensate for the loss of one

so precious.

And he will bring you to me for my wife.

Your contract with Samyap Company for five years. You don't want five years?

Then you pay for women or leave them or sell them. I am taking all my family,

but I feel unlucky today. It is unlucky to leave today.

You are not leaving China forever.

You work your years, then you're brought back.

This company guarantees it.

But what if I should die in the new land? How would I enter the next life?

Your bones will be shipped back to China. You will be buried with your

ancestors. It is in the contract. Now move along.

To leave China, this is a sad thing.

Where could it be worse?

Move!

Over there!

Come on,

over there!

Right over that way, pretty. Down the other ladder.

She is with me.

Getting it right back, good as new, just some paperwork. Now keep moving, that's

it.

Turn along, we haven't got all day.

Next here, let's go.

Move on.

Go on, I told you.

Listen. Keep moving, pretty.

That's it, pretty, right up forward.

Listen.

Get slops empty twice a day.

Aye, aye.

Hello,

pretty.

What do you want of me?

I'll keep this for you.

The pigtails and the holes steal the teeth out of your mouth. Please.

Please.

No trouble now.

The trouble gets dumped over the side.

Play through this door, pretty. There you go.

Back safe and sound.

Listen. The papers that he sent.

It's all right?

It's all right, yes.

You are now in America. You will all be very rich. Stay together. Follow me.

You see, gentlemen.

You steps aside.

Follow me. Quick, quick. Follow me.

In China, they say American people welcome us.

It is good you know now.

Yes, very good. It is important to understand.

Here is where you are welcome.

Here is where you will find friends.

Here is where the Chinese are.

They will be answered in time.

You are going to a place called Wyoming.

To land called McCann Land.

To do mining work.

Gold mining.

For now, if you are separated, you've got to remember.

Samyap Company.

You need help?

Samyap Company.

Need lawyer?

Samyap Company takes care of you.

What company is this?

Samyap Company.

Samyap Company.

Welcome to America.

Oh, Josh.

Oh, come on. Will you let me explain this before you say it's a crazy idea?

First off, rabbits are fast.

They have as many as five litters a year, and there's at least six to a

From one pair, you get 30 little ones in a year. Two pair give you 60.

I cannot believe I'm hearing this.

Well, you haven't heard anything yet, Laura. Best part's coming up.

Oh.

Now, horses, they take hay and oats.

But I figure we can get off feeding those rabbits on scraps from your

garden. Scraps?

Oh, Lordy.

Now, 60 rabbits in a year times 30 little ones will give you about 1 ,800

rabbits in just two years' time.

Oh, you're going to feed over 1 ,000 rabbits some scraps from our garden.

No, you're going to feed them.

Now, I'm just explaining the principle of the idea to you. Yeah, no, we got a

few things we got to work out.

Josh here is going to be the rabbit king of Wyoming.

Oh, what does that mean?

It means I got an idea no one around here has ever heard of before, that's

Oh?

Josh, he wants to raise rabbits so we can eat them.

Why don't you just go out and bag what you want, Josh?

They're all over the place.

I was thinking more in terms of quantity, Aunt Molly.

Figured we could add maybe a side business to the ranching. You know,

rabbit meat to the railroads or maybe the Chinese out at the leased lands. Oh,

that reminds me, Josh.

stop by the mine on the way to town.

But keep up the thinking. You'll be a rich man yet.

Somebody around here has to think.

I still don't understand how those Chinese brokers can find enough gold in

dry riverbed to lease it from us, let alone pay their workers.

Yeah, and Luke told me they brought in another dozen from San Francisco last

week. There are even some women in this lot.

Chuck! No!

All that night, I could not sleep.

Every time I closed my eyes, all I could see was this hand reaching for me.

It frightened me. I thought I was reaching from the other world.

This is most proficient.

There's more.

This eliminated all doubt.

At my first moment on the job, I fell in the watering cans and sliced my hand.

My hand, Chuck!

I have the winner today.

Today, I win the chief up. Those are very strong signs.

Seven pennies. I bet them all.

On the head.

Don't rush me. Don't rush me. One at a time.

Hold up, Josh.

Are you all right, child?

Thank you. It is nothing.

Is it now?

What sort of a nothing would have you sitting back down again?

It's just my ankle. A moment's rest and I'll be all right. Which one?

It's all right. I won't fight.

What's your name, dear?

Liefing.

Liefing. Thin. That's pretty.

We're from the McCahan Ranch.

McCahan?

Mm -hmm. I'm Molly, and those three silent Sams up there are Josh, Laura,

Jesse. Hello.

Missy. Hello.

Well, it's nice to see your nothing isn't broken.

The best possible medicine for a sprain is to go easy on it for a time. But I

must put in the water.

Oh, maybe later.

Come on, now.

Now, we'll take you back to your section. That is, if chivalry isn't

dead.

Oh, here.

We work. All work. You gamble.

It is not fitting for the son of a Leon to gamble.

The whole family works for a dollar a day.

I do my share and make another dollar besides. But only if you win.

You are gambling.

The men betting, they are gambling.

I own the board. I set the odds.

I'm a businessman.

I don't know how to talk to him anymore.

In this country, the children do not listen to their elders as they do in

Your children give you all respect.

Ah, on the Leon section.

Which way?

Over there.

Wait!

Lee Sin.

On the wagon.

Mr. Neal?

Yes, sir.

Just give me your daughter a hand.

My daughter? What happened to Lee Sin?

Well, she's fine.

Just twisted her ankle.

Thank you. And to you also, thank you.

Oh, be thin.

Take some vegetables with you. Have some of the corn for your family.

And be thin.

And take care of yourself. Now, you hear me?

All right.

Everybody, come on. We have some vegetables here. Please come and help

She's a kind woman.

So gentle.

Hey,

cowboy, move along.

House of sleepless dreams, and you gallop all the way.

Hey, boy, you go wrong way.

Are you deaf? Turn around or I'll shove that pig tail down your throat.

Take it, you scheming scavengers.

Quit your job.

There was a girl, Lee Sin.

You took it from her.

What else did you do to her?

Lee Sin?

Never heard of her.

Never heard of her.

Instead, release him.

Come on.

I'll carve you all up for stew meat.

It would be between only us.

Well, you come on, then.

You come and meet this here pig -sticker of mine. It's carved up lots of yellow

in its day.

It is only between myself and this man.

We, your friends, have decided his fate.

Mother, I must talk to you.

There is ship sailing.

Ship?

Sailing for America.

Enough to keep you for a long time.

It's money.

You saved for your own passage.

But how will you find Lee Sin?

There are other ways to go to America.

A promise to work for three years at half wages for the Seminyak Company when

you get there.

Should I one day send for you?

My time is past for that.

Keep China.

May Buddha bless you.

This land, America, do you think it is what they say?

I do not know.

In my village,

This was posted.

It tells all about it.

What does it say?

Americans are very rich people.

They want the Chinaman to come and they will make him welcome.

There will be big pay and large houses and food and

clothing of the finest description.

It is...

A nice country.

Without mandarins or soldiers.

China God is there.

And the agents of this house.

Never fear.

And you will be lucky.

I hope it is so. It's hard to believe. But it is written. The paper says

it. It cannot be otherwise.

I'll never see you again.

Yes.

I will follow you.

I promise.

And I will send your father a thousand cakes to compensate for the loss of one

so precious.

And he will bring you to me, oh, my wife.

I need ten cents more.

I gave you ten cents yesterday and the day before.

Can you not simply give me the money?

Thank you, brother.

I made it this morning to give the powder time

to blend.

Dry skin of toe and serpent's teeth and crab's eyes. The

strongest thing I know.

The last I had from China.

In this country, you cannot find as good as in China.

The gods will mark your generosity.

Ah, Lesine, have you considered the good fortune to come to your child?

Do you mean he will be born on a lucky day?

Perhaps that, too.

But your child will be an American citizen.

He will have two homelands.

China, if he wishes, and America.

My son will be an American citizen?

Aye, Lord.

It is the law of this country.

He will have vote.

Even a voice in affair of this land. He could be a very important man.

I hesitate to mention this.

I must ask more money this time.

Only three cents more.

I have no other money.

You can pay me another time.

But... It is difficult to get money. My father collects all wages for whole

family. Always sends what is left to our village in China.

Then how did you get this money?

I can get no more.

I am here to use my gift for others.

Money?

That's nothing to me.

Whenever you need me.

You know.

I have guessed.

This Charleston you go to, he agrees to help?

He says his medicine will make the birth easier.

Birth easier?

You want this child to be born?

Of course.

Joke, we're not in China.

Here in America, a child may grow to be whatever he wishes. It is a good land to

have a child.

And I've just learned that he will be an American citizen by the right of birth

in this land.

Please, brother, understand me.

I thought at first of what was in your mind.

Strong medicine, so I need not have a child. But when I felt this life

stirring within me, I knew.

This innocent being was mine to protect, mine to love, to delight in

watching him become a man.

You've been sure that it will be a man, child.

You have spoken to our mother?

I think she also guesses by now.

Thank you, Chuck.

Our daughter will speak with you.

When could she not?

Vivienne?

I... This ship...

It... Happened.

trouble you would have us all thrown off the ship out at sea there was nothing

you could do

The whites.

Devils! I was so afraid.

I just did what he wanted and hoped it would end.

It is his shame.

She must begin to work less.

Yes.

When the time comes, you will be with her to assure her health.

I will.

Then you will bring the child to me.

Of course, the child must die.

It ain't fit for ducks.

A fella could drown going to the outhouse.

Joshua. Well, it's wet out there.

Boy, I don't envy Uncle Zeb and Luke one little bit having that surveying job in

this kind of weather.

Oh, they're used to being out in the open.

Besides, I don't think they've started out yet. They're probably still at the

fort. That's right. They'll be stopping by here in the morning.

Well, that should remind us to prepare them an early breakfast.

The little girl from the mining camp leased in.

She's soaked to the bone. Josh, up to my room, quickly. Hurry, Josh.

Easy now, Josh. Set her down here on the edge of the bed. Just on the edge.

Don't wet the bedclothes.

We'll get her out of these wet things. Look, go down you and put a kettle on

some tea. Well, I'll get some towels.

Yes, and there's a flannel knife down in that chest, too. If I can.

Oh, look at her.

Soaked to the bone she is.

Now, what a night to be out. Get her into bed there, Laura.

There we are now.

We'll get you all dried and warmed up. Let's put it...

Lisa,

when are you expecting a child?

It's seven months now.

Girls will get you all dried up now and put the nightdress on you. The girls

will look after you there. I'll go see to the tea and put these in front of the

stove.

Never had she been gone this long before, and it's such a storm.

Waiting up will not bring her home faster. She will come only when she

her senses.

Yoshi husband, I have never heard such words in a house as passed between you

and her this day.

It is a disease of this new country.

The young question their elders. They think they know better.

You know the sadness of burying a child as we buried one.

That was our child.

This is the seed of the white... devils who spit at us. Would you allow the

blood of Liang to be tainted?

Sadness was great. I carry it today.

I will not be questioned because my daughter cannot face what must be done

runs away.

Did she only run away?

Or has life become so filled with sadness, so filled with shame that she

to seek a better place in the next life?

You have many questions, but all you've got to remember now is Samyap Company.

You get lost?

What company is this?

Samyap Company.

Good. All you stay here, I make arrangements.

Oh,

you all go away on another boat. Go to Oregon.

Where you go?

Oregon.

Good.

Excuse, please.

Important you stay together or you'll be lost in a strange city.

This place, Oregon.

I don't know if that's where I must go.

Where you must go?

I came to this country to find someone, a girl. There will be girls where you

are going. Get back with the others. You don't understand.

Her name is Lysine of the Liang family.

Where they went must be in the records at the Samyap office.

Samyap brings you to this country, gives you good wages. You should appreciate.

It is not for you to question.

I will go anywhere.

Only please send me where I may find Lee Sin.

That's why I came to America.

This is a country of law. You want me to call the soldiers?

You put your name on the paper. Go back with the others.

Please, honorable sir, where find boat for Oregon?

It's over on pier six.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Get on the sail, lads. Let's go.

Debbie, then what are we doing?

gonna have to send her back where she came from send her back to whatever she

ran away from that child is seven months pregnant and she's frightened to death

and she came here to us for help now you listen to me for a minute you know mr

song the head man in that chinese quarter Remember you told us you worked

railroad with them. Yes, Molly, but I can't go and talk to Mr.

Song. Those Chinese, they're a very close -knit group. They don't want

from the outside interfering in their affairs.

Not only that, but Luke and I, we got a survey party waiting for us on Rock

Point here. We're over two hours late already.

This and that survey party will be absolutely delighted to sit on their

swapping lies while they wait for you.

I'll tell you something. I swear you and Kate McCahan were twins.

I never saw two women could be so stubborn.

Except, you know.

All right.

I'll take Josh along with us and he can come back and tell you whatever it is we

learned down there by sticking our noses in where they wasn't supposed to be.

You know, the thing about you, Zebulon, is you concede favors with such grace.

You mean to say when a child's born, it has no

right to live?

I don't understand you, Mr. Leon.

It is not of your affair to understand or not.

You bring him here to insult me?

Please forgive me, Leon.

I brought Mr. McCain because he gave help to your daughter and because he

to see you.

You will not question me in my house.

I damn sure will. Your daughter's in my house. It gives me the right.

Then tell her to leave.

Tell her I forgive her for running away, that she may return.

And what happens when the baby's born? I have told you what must be.

I read it in your eyes.

This man is a barbarian, you are thinking.

The Chinese, they are all animals.

The whites think this.

You will not tell me how to live.

I will not accept your instruction.

Maybe you need a little instruction and the value of human life.

Value of life?

No, you do not condemn me.

In this country, I work for half the wages of the whites.

Black slaves are free.

The Chinese are sold like cattle in the cities. If a white man should shoot me

to see if I bleed, do I have rights and protection in law?

Value of life.

Life is cheap here for the Chinese.

Cheaper than in China.

I'm not going to change your mind. You're not going to change mine, Leon.

As long as your daughter's under my protection, I want a promise out of you.

There's not going to be any trouble when that child is born.

Now, do I get it?

I would not bring the troubles of my house to another man's door.

It would not be civilized.

I think he is a man of your word.

There we are. Into bed now.

There you go.

It's a daisy.

You've been too kind.

Well, you can pay me back by telling me what it was that brought you out to the

ranch here.

That must be quite a story.

I... I only decided to leave my home and go elsewhere.

To another town.

Oh, yes? And what town would that be now?

Because as soon as you leave the road and cut across our land, there's no

well, that's any possible distance to walk.

I became lost.

And this town you were looking for, they must be very generous there, for you

have no possessions.

Do they get lost, too?

Yes, in the storm.

Tell me what it is, child.

I might be able to help you.

Please.

I don't mean to be a burden.

I will leave you.

Thank you. I'm resting.

Stay still.

I doubt if you could make it to the front door.

Anyway, there's no need.

Rest now.

We'll talk later.

Think of not permitting a child to live.

What kind of man is this Mr. Leong?

Some sort of monster?

Apparently he doesn't think so.

According to Uncle Zeb, there's about a thousand years of Chinese history tied

up in what he's thinking.

Well, what about Mrs. Leong?

Doesn't she have any feelings at all? Again, according to Uncle Zeb, he's the

head of the household.

His word's absolute law.

Josh.

What most concerns me is Mr. Leong's statement that Lee Sin and her child

be perfectly safe here.

He said he'd never interfere as long as Lee Sin's here on the ranch.

Well, that relieves my mind somewhat.

Now, if Lee Sin is right, it means that her baby won't be born for, oh, quite a

few weeks yet.

By that time, of course, your Uncle Zeb will be back, and I'm sure he'll be able

to straighten the whole thing out.

And my... Minds are often changed.

My name is Ki.

I will do any work for some food.

I have no work for you.

It would only go to waste.

I'm looking for someone.

A girl.

It's very important.

I find.

I have this place three years. Everybody eats here.

Her name is Lee Sin.

Family, young.

I do not know the name. What company brought her here?

Ning Yong, Con Joe, and... Some young people go Oregon to cut

timber. Go lots of places for railroad.

To California for gold mines. Little bit Wyoming.

Could be any kind of place.

The records in Semyon's office.

They could say where he is.

No record in the office.

Records kept secret from American politicians.

Only Semyon himself would have secret books with all labor contracts.

I have seen some yabba times at Chong's.

And if you need work, Chong sometimes has more jobs to be done.

Chong is gone now, but he will be back tomorrow.

Thank you.

And if he has work, I will pay you for this.

Reacher said to my Uncle Pat, I don't care what you say, Pat. That chicken's a

turkey.

Oh, listen to that giggling.

You know, you ladies sure know how to put on a good hen party.

You're welcome to pull up a chair and listen, Josh. I'll even lend you a

and thread.

I'm sorry.

Sorry? Are you having pain?

Pain?

Merciful heavens.

Did they just start?

Josh, run and fetch Doc Martin. I'm gone.

Jesse, put on some hot water. We're going to need plenty of it. Now, easy

off the stairs.

Lots of hot water, Jesse.

Easy does it now.

Easy does it. I'm afraid it's too soon for the baby. Seven months is too soon.

No, dear, it does happen.

Can you go now?

There we are.

There's nothing to be afraid of at all.

Nothing.

and tell us that she was ready to give birth?

Well, it seems that she wasn't even aware of it herself, Jessie.

Well, is the doctor going to be here in time?

Blankets, blankets.

Well, to town and back is an all -day ride in itself.

With Josh traveling those dark roads at night, no, I'm afraid he won't be here

in time, Jessie.

But Aunt Molly... Keep those pots boiling, will you, dear? There's a good

Well, our young visitor surely is the impatient one.

That's a good sign, Laura.

Now, Laura, what I want you to do is go down to the kitchen. There's some

laudanum in the kitchen closet. Mix a few drops of it into a cup of tea.

Now, Molly, have you ever done anything like this before?

Well, if I say no, do you have somebody to replace me? Go on now, like a good

girl.

There. And now everything's going to be fine.

Everything's going to be all right.

Would you look at me with the thimble still on my hand?

Just like my grandmother.

Now that's for luck.

Road ahead of the doctor.

Should be here in a couple minutes.

Well, he'll just be in time for a couple days.

What happened?

Good boy.

And Mama's doing fine.

You know, I never seen a brand spanking new baby before.

Oh, but isn't he the handsome one?

Hey, you.

Hey.

Welcome to Wyoming.

Thank you for everything.

You know what I'm thinking?

This is the first baby born in the McCahan Ranch.

Isn't that something?

Well, no, that is something.

And even though he isn't a McCann, I'm going to write his name in the family

Bible anyway.

His name.

His

name

will be Key.

The man who gives me rise.

He said you might have work.

I will do any kind of work.

No. Not today.

You come back tomorrow.

Maybe then there is work.

You buy a pipe?

I have no money.

I'm looking for someone. A girl.

It is said Samyap would know of her.

He comes to the back room on occasion.

Is he here tonight?

If he was here, I would have said so.

He'll come back tomorrow night.

You come back tomorrow night.

Hey, you there!

Stop! You hear me, mister?

You better stop or I'm going to start shooting.

You've been watching our house.

Watching the house?

That's right, and you're not the only one. I saw two men up here yesterday.

And there are footprints all over the ridge.

Now, what are you doing?

Why on land?

Look for rocks.

Pretty.

For make jewelry.

Don't you ever come back here.

You hear me?

Don't you ever come back on McCahan land.

So sorry.

So humble to forgive.

You've been warned, mister.

It's a dumb child. I have to talk to you.

Yes, Miss Molly?

Now, listen.

What kind of a man is your father?

Oh, he's a wonderful man.

He brought the whole family from China at great cost. My father is a man who

deserves all respect as head of the house.

Yes, dear, I know that, but I have a reason for needing to ask.

You see, some men, some Chinese men have been seen prowling about our ranch.

I know.

I have seen them.

Well, do you know what these men want?

No.

Well, do you think your father perhaps might send them to cause trouble?

He said he would not.

What about your brother, Lee Sin?

My brother Chuck?

None of this is his business.

It isn't?

Well, being a brother myself, I'm getting just a little curious as to why

not making it his business.

Mr. Leung, you remember me?

What is it you want?

I'm looking for your son, Chuck.

My son rises in the world.

He no longer labors with his hand.

He stays to the comforts of the town.

Could I talk with you, then?

We are very busy.

Mr. McCann, sir, how is Lee Sin?

Fine.

Up and around real good now.

And the baby is real fine, too.

Tell Lisa her mother thinks of her.

I'll do that, ma 'am.

Your family has become her family. It is appreciated.

That's all good and fine, Chuck. But what I'd really like to see is her

become her family again.

You know nothing about this.

I know if my sister were in the same situation, I wouldn't permit what's

on.

And I'd just like to know why you're permitting it to happen.

It is hard.

What happened to Lee Sin is hard.

All right.

I think we're getting someplace here.

Chuck, I know that you and me were different.

But I think we have a lot in common, too.

Now, I can't talk to your father. I tried. It doesn't work.

But you can.

I figure maybe you could straighten this whole mess out if you try.

There is a way of things which is accepted.

My father is old China, will not change his mind.

Old China?

He's wedded to the old race, lives only to return to China.

I separate myself from all that.

Well, fine, but where's this going to lead? Understand, it's a good country

me. I will prosper here, as will many Chinese who will come and stay, but

nothing is easy.

Many will be casualties.

Leave in a casualty The price we pay to be in this new country

Oh China New China, it's a bunch of hogwash It all boils down to your

sister needs help And I'm asking you Chuck. I'm asking you to help your

try Try to talk to your father. It can change nothing.

I Will not waste time trying

I was wrong about you.

I guess we are different.

A lot different.

the house.

Tomorrow we go to the company store to send money to China.

Will you be with us?

I have no extra money.

There is something we should talk of.

Lee Sin.

We will not talk of Lee Sin, but of money we send to China.

You say you have no extra money.

To own the chief our game, you have money.

To run the laundries you now own, you have money.

But for China, you have no money.

Money makes money.

Here I lend money out at 6 % a month.

It does me no good in China.

You do not intend to return to China.

I really don't want to talk about this again.

What I want... You're ashamed.

You should be ashamed.

I've got to go out.

Some business. Yes, business.

You are ashamed to discuss your duty to China.

My duty to China?

Which China do you want to talk about?

Your China?

Flowery kingdom where the gods live, or the China where you starve to death?

You can't... Get out of the dirt because a Mandarin has his foot on your neck

and the soldiers cut your down if you dare protest.

Which China?

It is time.

It is time.

Here is a man who will work

with you tonight.

What kind of work is this?

If you are hungry, what difference?

What work?

I take care of the hospital.

I'm looking for a girl.

Listen, the family is Leon.

No, I do not know this girl. She came to America a long time ago.

She could be anywhere.

I just keep asking.

Up here.

Doctor says no more happy time for you. You must die now.

Here is rice.

Here is water.

When the oil is done, we will come for you.

Many good dreams this night.

In the morning, I will come back, and then we can bury her.

Bury?

She's sick. She's not dying.

When the oil burns away, she will be dead.

And if she's not?

Then I will come back in the morning and look in on her.

After a while, I will call you to help me carry the dead girl away.

She is deceased.

She has no further use.

Where's that child? I want him right now.

Child?

Lee Sin's son.

Stolen. Now, don't you try to do -si -do me around this thing. Just give me that

child.

I don't have the child.

The baby was taken from our ranch.

Don't try to pretend that you didn't put men up to doing that.

Men at ranch?

I... But you're the one who wanted the baby harmed. Who else would take it?

I know nothing of this.

I will talk to you no further.

The matter is ended.

You do know.

All of you.

You. I'm told that you control many men. Was it you who sent them to the ranch?

Did you?

You know where that baby is?

You do know?

What you have done is wrong.

Terribly wrong.

The man you are looking for, Sammy Epp. Be respectful when you speak to him.

He is coming now.

Do not hurt him.

I am not a beggar!

I broke my bond to you.

I am bound to you for three years.

But I ran away from your broker. There is no security on me in China.

You boast that you violate a contract?

A word from me, they will break all of your bones.

I will give you six years.

I ran away from three, but... I will give you six years of labor.

What is it you want?

There is a girl your company brought over.

I want to go where she is.

You have records to know where.

Let us find out, and you can begin your journey to her this very night.

It would please me.

Six years of your service pleases me.

I'll take that for you, Aunt Molly. Thank you, Josh.

Well, what did the sheriff say?

The sheriff's away, and his deputy says that whatever happens in the Chinese

quarter is their own business.

How often am I going to have to listen to that expression, their own business?

The deputy's afraid that if he goes into the Chinese quarter, well, that

something will happen to the child.

I'm sorry, Lisa.

There are no easy answers.

It does not matter.

My baby is not alive.

The baby is alive.

What do you mean, Aunt Molly?

That baby is alive.

And I know where it is.

Your daughter told me I might find you here.

It took me quite a while to figure it out.

I kept thinking it was your husband who had taken the child.

He was the one who didn't want it to live.

Who else would steal it?

I thought, no, someone who could save her.

You have the child.

I have placed him with people who will love him.

They have many children, happy children.

Let at least him think the baby is no more.

It will be better.

I could not deceive her like that.

You are thinking.

To take a child's life is unthinkable.

It is unspeakable.

Yes.

My husband is not an unspeakable man.

There... There are reasons.

I can think of no reason.

There was another child.

Before Lee Sin, before Jock, another child was born to us. He would have been

the first son in the family of Leon.

But he was born in the time of the Great Famine.

So as soon as he was delivered, I pinched his nostrils and

told all the baby had been stillborn.

My husband knew.

He knew.

Many children were still born that year.

If they had not been, perhaps more families would have starved to death.

Sometimes a thing must be...

In the morning you will bring Lysin's child to me.

We would all have been the same.

No. Tell me where the child is. I'll tell you when. I could not oppose my

husband's will.

You will bring Lisa into our house in the morning?

Yes.

Tomorrow will not be a happy day.

My husband will not sleep tonight.

He will pray to the gods.

Look deeply into his heart.

Ask Milton.

I had some of my people keep a watch over you.

You might inform a person.

I hope you were not frightened.

No, of course not.

I will walk with you.

You knew where the baby was, didn't you?

Once I heard my father say he did not do it, then I knew.

My mother gave me life and Lee Sin life.

And in her way would try to do the same for Lee Sin's child.

I too wish for Lee Sin's happiness.

I wish it could be.

But if you and your mother could get together and persuade your father

Tell him he is not the head of his house? That his word is subject to our

approval?

Of course I know your father is... It would destroy him.

You understand nothing of my father.

He knows only the old ways.

He doesn't know how to deal in this new country.

For the first time in his life, he doesn't know what to do.

It took all his strength to get us this far, and now that new things are

happening, he has no more strength to deal with it.

Suddenly he feels weak, he feels old... and ashamed.

His son does not... Follow his ways. And now his daughter's lost to him because

with a child here, she is not returning to China.

My father came here with a family in an attempt to save them.

He'll be lucky if he gets himself back to China.

But will the death of the baby change any of that?

Really?

Will it?

is the way to your street.

I do this for you, my daughter.

Father, it is a new land.

It is your life which is precious to me. Your life.

A child is all that is between us.

I don't believe this is happening. Up until this moment, I never truly

it would.

Mr. Leong, I'll take the child.

I'll adopt it. I'll raise it as a McCann.

Lee Sin's heart would always be where the child is, and she could have no

life.

I will go to be alone with the child and pray.

This life is not lucky for him.

The next may be better.

I said I would follow.

All that we talked of can never be.

The house of Semyon, of this child, and how it

came to be.

You say you have a child.

No.

We.

We have a child.

The child will be written into the book of rights of the key

family.

I will send you a thousand cakes for the loss of one so precious as your

daughter.

And you will bring lease into me for my wife.

We had to come.

It's a fine day.

A real fine day.

We stopped by before leaving, my husband and I, to again express our gratitude.

Have you decided where you're going yet?

We have talked of farming in Montana, where life will be better for our son

in crowded town streets.

Well, is there any help we can give you? Anything we can do for you before you

leave? It is good of you to offer, but Leeson's brother paid off our

to the Seminyak Company.

And we are free to start a new life.

And such freedom makes us wealthy enough.

A new life. We will take chances as pioneers.

Pioneers.

they'll be taking their chances.

But all of us did.

That's a part of it.

All a part of it.