The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 109: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL, FROM HONG-KONG. 105 ment,.and: he has left Ne hen: Where do we aim for next, [ wonder—Constantinople,, Moscow, Kamchatka? Well, where Doris leads I follow. There is no other way, since I have sworn. to devote my life to her service, “no matter whether I win a reward or not,”? / Doris is troubled. He can see that by the way she ponders and taps: her little foot upom the flodr. “You are disappointed ?”’ he says, in sympathy. “Yes, it is the same old story—just. a day too late.” “Then he is no longer in Teheran?’’ ‘That is, true, 1 am sorry to say.”’ “But your other fears were not realized.” “What can you, mean??? — “You remember the caravan ahead of us was also attacked, and. at. the time we reached the place you. were dreadfully worried lest this—er—friend wham you seek might: he occu pying one of the newly made graves under the plane trees..”’ “Oh! I remember now. It is not as bad as, that, He survived. and reached Teheran.”’ ‘But we have arrived too late to catch him?’’ ‘*l fear go.”’ | “’ §*Mise Doris, you know you can command me. Any- thing that lies in my power I am eager to do in order to be. of assistance,’’ he says. eagerly comicbooks.com