The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 104: what you’re looking at

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98 ss PHE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. Herat, but somehow she seems to grow more and mere determined and eager with each difficulty surmounted. Terry becomes more curions, on his part, to know who this mysterious party she follows can ‘be, and is already positive there must be a remarkable story back of 7t all. The sights of Teheran may impress the traveler ahr is fresh from Paris or Vienna, but after comfng from the glory-tinted marts_of India they appear very dull and tame. Terry exhausts them in a morning. ®ven the burial place of the Parsees mteresta htm bet Tittle, for has he not looked wpon the famous Towers af Silenes near Bombay’? The horse markets where splendid Arab horses are offered for sale draw his attention, and yet he would fm it extremely difficult to have purchased a mount, 30 averse are these Mohammedans to selling a ‘pet steed to a ‘‘Christian dog.’’ There they sit, the Persians in blue or green cotton cattans, belted at the waist, smoking their zalians or water-pipes, Arabs ‘in striped mantles, with silk Rafeeyas or tasseled handkerchiefs twisted | about their heads, and representatives of other nations, all bound together by religious sympathy; and among the motley crowd Terry sees a face he icnows, a face that belongs to Kaja Mulie, who was ‘supposed to have been carried away by the robbers at ithe time of thovastrakes, monn