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A story of Chinatown that has seldom been excelled for gripping interest. Sung Loo and his cousin, Sung Pho, are star pupils at the Chinese Mission, their close attendance serving as a moral alibi for their characters. Sung Loo is janitor ...See moreA story of Chinatown that has seldom been excelled for gripping interest. Sung Loo and his cousin, Sung Pho, are star pupils at the Chinese Mission, their close attendance serving as a moral alibi for their characters. Sung Loo is janitor of the Mission and the favorite of all the teachers, but when away from the Mission he is a hatchet man for one of the powerful tongs, working in conjunction with Sung Pho. Pretty Bessie Radcliffe is his particular teacher, and she is very proud of her apt pupil. When the Reverend John Grismer comes to Chinatown and recognized the teacher as a schoolmate, she introduces Sung Loo as her most able pupil. Sung does not fancy the intrusion of the good looking minister, for he has hopes of winning Bessie for his own wife, and this dislike is brought to a focus when the minister discovers the Sungs to be hatchet men, and prevents the murder of a Chinese merchant who has refused to pay blackmail to the Tong. The two Sungs linger in the Mission room after class is dismissed and decide that the minister must be put out of the way. Bessie has come back to obtain a forgotten book and hearing Grismer's name slips behind the window curtains. The hatchet men depart on their bloody mission, but Bessie gets to the telephone in time to warn Grismer, and then hurries to the police station to take aid to the imperiled man. The police arrive just in time, and there is the hint of a marriage as the scene closes. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less