The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 136: what you’re looking at

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130 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. for you, Miss Doris: I only wish I could see the end of the game in sight,”’ he says soberly. ‘*T echo the wish, but I fear it is a long way off,” she replies promptly. - : . “You will do me the honor te confide the outlines of your plans to me after you have decided upon your. course ?”’ ~ ! | “With pleasure, if you care to hear them. My long journey to Teheran has been practically useless, for the person whom I seek remained here but a day, and has gone away toward Russia, so [ learn. That means another journey. Heaven only knows where it will end.”’ There isa little touch of despair in her voice, and Terry’s surprise increases. : Surely this is no simple matter, but a solemn duty Doris is carrying out. Who is this strange fn gitive, and what relation does he bear to the girl whe deems no danger and exposure too great in her intense desire to overtake him? She commissions him to find out all he can about the route to Constantinople and various points. of interest that may concern them on the -way—how their journey may be expedited, and the goal reached in as brief a space of time as possible. ' All this Terry is only too glad to assume, sine if, comicbooks.com