The dismissal of the boy created a gap in our menage that had to be filled. The other servants frankly declined to dispense with some masculine aid-Ah Sin was the result.
Lewis had come across Ah Sin, a singularly bland faced disciple of Confucius, on one of his visits to the East End shops, one of which Lewis owned. Ah Sin had come in this room at various times, and he unfolded a tale of woe on this occasion. It appeared that he had been in the service of an Anglo Indian master and mistress who had both perished of alcoholic poisoning during the homeward voyage of the P amp; O mail boat. Hence Ah Sin's financial infelicity in London. Lewis engaged him.
He arrived in the garb of his own country, a medium sized, well made Chinaman of about 30, and took up Peter's place with the additional work of being expected to help in the cooking. He had a little room to himself, and Lewis allowed him a certain amount of opium a week.
Ah Sin began at once to be decidedly useful about the house. With the exception of perhaps once a week, when he took to the opium, he worked like a slave. He was extraordinarily left handed and almost without noticing it, drifted into the position of ladies' maid. Despite his muscular figure and strong hands, he had a great deal of femininity in his composition, and I never had a woman who looked after my clothes so well. The other servants soon became devoted to him. I discovered by the old lady's own half-blushing confession, that he made love to the housekeeper, and Jane, the housemaid, was his slave.
Lewis too began to find him a treasure, for though Ah Sin did not drink himself, he had a wonderful knack of understanding the requirements of others and he could mix drinks like a practised bartender.
Likewise, he could talk in voluble pigeon English, most amusingly. He had been everywhere in the East and had been a keen observer of mankind. He had apparently had some luck in making love to the 67
Europeans too, to judge from one interview he had with Jane, which I was witness to.
I had been to the theatre one evening and was home a good deal earlier than usual, I let myself in through the back gate. I had supposed no one was in the house and through the open French window of the drawing room, I now perceived the bland Ah Sin and our own Jane, swapping spits, as that degenerate person, Mr. Annesley, once described the merrie and delightsome frolic of tongue kissing.
As our lower windows were never locked, the blinds were up and I was able to hear and see everything.
"You have belly fine conformations," remarked Ah Sin, and his hands began to wander over the plump figure of Jane.
And Ah Sin went on to the extent of lifting her frock and inserting a yellow finger between her legs. At that point, Jane proved restive and broke away. Ah Sin also displayed a familiarity with European customs. "You wantee money before fuckee," he insinuated, and held out a piece of silver.
"Hindeed not, Ah Sin, but you were so sudden like…"
And then Ah Sin became sudden like again. In a minute he had Jane on the floor and was on top of her. A few wriggles and I could see that Jane was in a fair way of being charged with a semi-Mongolian offspring.
So much did Jane enjoy the operation that I decided then and there to make a trial of Ah Sin myself-and that very night. He was in the habit of coming in after I had gone to bed and seeing to my clothes, at the same time bringing me a drink.
"Ah Sin," I said to him that night, "what were you doing to Jane in the drawing room?"
He grinned all over his face. "Little missee not angly?" he asked insinuatingly.
"No, but I got rheumatism in the garden waiting till you had finished."
"Me massaggee Missee, culle pletty quick," he made answer.
I told him to do his worst and he massaged my ankles and calves most dexterously, working up to my knees. I was lying with my nightdress up to the knees.
"You feelee ache further up?" he enquired blandly.
"Ah Sin," I answered, "I want you to massage me all over, but remember, if you tell any one this, you lose a good place."
"Me silent man like tomb," he answered.
"Then take my night dress off and begin."
In a moment I was stark naked and he was operating on my thighs. He rubbed me all over and though he went near enough to my private parts, he never took a liberty. He was always the servant, obeying the mistress' commands, and that attitude I intended him to continue. I managed to behave as if this was just an every day matter-though inwardly I was boiling with lust.
"You've very strong arms, Ah Sin," I said at last. "Take your coat off and let me see your muscles," I commanded.
In a moment he was stripped to the waist and he was splendidly developed and his skin was like polished yellow ivory.
"Me stronger in the legs," he said. "Let me see them."
A second magician-like manipulation of his garments and Ah Sin stood before me in the garb of Adam before the fall. And he could no longer disguise the fact that he was amorous. A yellow ivory staff projected from his stomach, crowned with a purple knob.
What I did with Ah Sin is difficult to describe. I managed all the time to preserve my dignity as mistress.
First of all he sucked me and the yellow devil had a tongue which seemed a foot long. Then he fucked me from behind, fucked me most delicately and exquisitely, giving me the seventh heaven of pleasure, and then he fucked me belly to belly, always, even in the transports of our lust, preserving a respectful demeanour and never daring to breathe a word of love. I ended the seance by turning him over the end of the bed and flogging his bottom soundly with a stay busk. Then I made him fetch me another drink and dismissed him with a sovereign.
Next evening I was left alone again. Lewis was having a late night at his bucket shop business. It was his pay night, and after a long extra time evening he used to pay his lady clerks. He employed only lady clerks at Runcorne's because they don't talk business out of business hours and because also, he liked women. I gathered subsequently, from one of his ex-clerks, that on those nights he received each one of the girls separately in his room and solemnly felt them before he paid their wages; if a girl didn't like it, she could go, and Runcorne's was a well paid situation for a girl, so it is seldom that one of them jibbed. Lewis was very open in his amours but he always managed to steer clear of any scandal.
For instance, he once seduced a young girl of fifteen in one of his choruses. Next day the girl's mother presented herself at his office.
"You have seduced my daughter…" she began.
"Well," said Lewis, reaching for his check book; "I suppose fifty pounds."
She took an open check for fifty pounds.
"Now clear out," said Lewis, "and take your daughter away from my theatre."
She had not been gone a minute before Lewis called his bank and stopped payment on the check. He was perfectly safe, for the very fact that the mother took the money made her an accessory after the act.
I knew that Lewis would not be back that night for he usually selected one of his harem who pleased him most to take upstairs to his private suite of rooms at Runcorne's.
To diverge again, I might mention a really delightful stroke of business on Lewis' part during the time I was with him.
He bought a house in the smartest street and started a brothel there, a very flaring, giddy, up-to-date brothel. Naturally, the other residents resented the neighbourhood of the place, got rid of their houses and all the rents fell. When they had fallen considerably, Lewis took the opportunity of buying up the street, closed the brothel, and presently the street was once more a very desirable one, and the values rose again and he was enabled to sell at a very large profit.
But to return to Ah Sin. I looked him straight in the face when he came in that evening and said solemnly: "Now Ah Sin, remember what happened last night must not be known to a soul, nor even suspected."
He spread out his hands: "Me not dlam fooi, Missee," he answered.
"How do you feel this evening, Ah Sin," I continued.
"Velly wicked," he replied, "me catchee big cockstand."
I pleased myself with frigging it, making the veins swell up almost to the bursting point, while poor Ah Sin wriggled and looked at me with supplicating eyes. But he refrained from touching me, though I lay right under his eyes in all my tempting nakedness.
Of course, I let him at last; he forgot himself and promised me extraordinary delights. And he was as good as his word. He lay on his back on the rug and while in that position he lifted me in the air above him. Then, ever so gently, he fixed me onto his penis, and still holding me in the air, manipulated me on it with such dexterity that my rapture was heavenly. He seemed to anticipate the moment of my greatest bliss, and pressing me right onto his penis, till our hairs met and our heaving bellies came together, we mingled our torrents.
After he had bathed me, syringed me with the dexterity of a professional nurse, brought a heavenly cocktail, and massaged my limbs till my lassitude was entirely dispelled, I made him sit down and talk to me for a while.
The scene was an odd one: a beautiful naked English girl, her long hair enveloping her to below the waist, lying on the bed gracefully toying with the hairs on her mount of Venus.
On the walls a collection of suggestive French pictures, and in an armchair, a muscular Chinaman, also naked, his staff of love in the half and half condition that follows a heavy fuck, but is maintained in some degree of naughtiness by the sensual surroundings.
"Ah Sin, how is it that you do wickedness so nicely?"
"They teachee me in school," was his astounding answer.
It appeared from the tale he unfolded that his mother was one of the famous prostitutes in a flower boat, and as she had connection with only very rich men, it is probable that his father was at least a Mandarin. In this floating brothel he had been brought up, and from his earliest days had been accustomed to sights of untrammelled lust. He soon knew all the tricks of the trade. 72
His flower boat made a specialty of providing indecent shows, and at a very early age, Ah Sin began to take a part in these. He underwent the usual operations performed on the male children born in a brothel and had his anus distended so that he could easily take a man's penis into it. He told me all this without the slightest shame, but added that he had not often been called upon to be buggered, owing to his efficiency in licking off the prostitutes as a show scene.
At the age of 17 he became assistant manager and head showman to a wealthy old pimp who ran three of these flower boats. In this capacity he produced some really fine pornographic shows for wealthy Cantonese and he referred to his triumphs with pardonable pride, his penis swelling at the recollection.
He produced one ballet of one hundred virgins and an equal number of handsome youths. They performed elaborate dances stark naked and then on grouped couches, the youths deflowered the virgins. He admitted, however, that perchance all the maidens were not exactly virgins, but 70 per cent of them were. It was the most expensive entertainment he had ever produced.