"Yup. Seems he's gettin' real bold now -- what with his buyin' land off the river, mouthin' off at folks, fightin' with th'Marshall..."

"Yeah, that's fer sure. You let one o' them Choos get a piece o'land, and they think they own th'town, s'what I think they think."

"Yep. And now he's lettin' a bunch o' his friends in. Seems they're doin' some work on his property. Yellers the lot o'em, 'cept a white man who's some kinda foreman, bodyguard, I dunno. Plus he's got that nice widow livin' with him. Shame about Doc Webster, she had t'go work fer a Chinaman."

"I'm tellin' ya, 'fore y'know, all them Choos're gonna make a filthy Chinatown out there, just like they got in Helena."

"Yeah, c'ept this one don't even do laundry."

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