The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 103: what you’re looking at

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THK GIRL PROM -HONG-KONG. 97 - They meet “at the chofa hazri.and with much geod- humor do justice to M:. Prevost’s cooking,’ which he will not-entirely trust to a native. As they have eaten many strange meals together, in remarkable places, from the Indran bungalow and the earavan camp to the robat in Afghanistan, they can ‘make merry’ over the lack of Parisian dainties. The baron-still strives to impress this wonderful girl from Hong-Kong, though secretly aware, deep down in his ‘heart, of a superior attraction in the shape of the quiet Englishman. It isa hard thing for him to keep up his character of a genial fellow when ‘all the while this feeling of intense hatred is creeping through his heart. | He believes that all things come to them who wait, and rejoices in the knowledge that they are drawipg nearer the border wlfere Russian, not. English, influence is felt. | So he laughs and talks and nurses his wrath for the day of reckoning, when something will drop, with the mah -he hates underneath. Truly nothing must stand in the way when a Russian makes up his mind to win. The earth is none too large to encompass his ambition. A less resolute girl than Doris would have been dis- mayed by the adventures which had already befallen her in India‘and while passing: over: the caravan route to comicloooks.conm