The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 128: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

122 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KEONG. might explain further they must take a sudden notius to gang awa’ and T-heard na mair.” ~ Perhaps we can figure it out by degrees. Keep that name in your mind. You understand that deadly dangers hover over. the dear head of your mistress, and -those of us who are devoted to her interests must keep on the wateh day and night; for I fear we have run up against a powerful set of schemers, and the game will grow more difficult every day, if as I suspect Doris means to, enter Russia. Warning her will do no good, for. her mind is made up, and if I spoke she might mis- construe my motives with regard to the baron. We can only watch, and when the time comes fight to, the last gasp for her, relying upon the justice of our ‘canse. Meanwhile keep silent, and be ready to join forces with me against these devilish foes that seem like hawks hovering over a dovecote.”” comicbooks.com