The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 108: what you’re looking at

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102 THE GIRL. FROM HONG-KONG. already come to think of him in the light of a counselor and friemd. ‘She seems to chat so gayly with the baron, and show a certain amount of reserve im the presence of Terry, that the Englishman grows moody at times, believing be hag little show beside such an Apollo. Alas! when will a man jearn to read the mind of a woman?—this very cireumstanee should have told Terry he was favored above all others. The baron, more accustomed to such signs, has noted the fact with considerable apprehension and secret fore- boding, believing the fates are surely agatnst him; and when even a Russian finds the fates in his path asa stum- bling block, he realizes that it must require all the tact and resolution of which he is capable in order to force. the fighting to favor his cause. Evidently Doris has been making inquiries on her ewn account. Terry endeavors to hazard a guess concerning the resulit. “To be or not to be, that is the question. Will she find him here, or be vompelled to seek further in Vienna, Paris, London, or New York? That is the-extent of my knowledge thus far—that the party primarily responsi- ble for this wild-goose chase is.aman. If I can read the signs aright the dear girl has met with another disappoint- comicbooks.com