Virginia stared at him and said, "Your attitude is wrong. I will not have you as a student. Kindly leave my class."

The man left the gymn without a word.

There were many street battles between communist sympathizers and the British authorities, and quite a number of people on both sides were killed in the violence, together with many innocents, including children, being killed when they touched these booby-trapped bombs.

Some weeks after that woman aikido teacher's demonstration, Virginia walked around a corner straight into a street riot in Shamshuipo district. The small man she had thrown out of her dojo was a uniformed Police Inspector, and she saw him on his own, cut off from his riot squad, with his back against a wall.

The mob of rioters was trying to reach him and snatch his .38 service revolver from its Sam Browne holster. He had lost his long riot baton, and was fending his attackers off by hitting at them with the edge of his wickerwork riot shield.

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