No official announcement has been made that the food rations will be stopped but the rumor has gone around the camp. Even the Chinese beggars outside the fence have started to leave. The British prisoners spend almost all their time in their bunks unwilling to cope with the reality of prison. The Americans were different having gone about survival in a more industrious way. Jim likes the Americans and thinks them superior to the British.
Jim meets with Basie and does some trading. Basie's cubicle is full of a wide assortment of items from his barter, most of it useless. Basie questions Jim about the pheasant traps and wants to move them again out by the Shanghai road. Jim knows there are no pheasants and thinks maybe they are using him to.....
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