The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 139: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 183: If the-coast appears quiet it-is deceptive, and no doubt: he is too shrewd to pe lulled into fancied security simply because no hostile head appears. ; Sometimes enemies work in the dark, and their plots ourst upon the heads of those against whom they scheme as the tropical storm sweeps down in the night, and goes. howling ebfough muller ane town, enabehing ween | away by scores. _ Terry has not been aware of the fact that keen eyes have watched his every move at the time he held euch a delightful conversation with Doris. | | ~ Such has been the truth. | | The: man who ‘glared upon him on account of hia to ss apparently being on such terms of ‘familiarity with the girl from Hong- Kong was of course our baron, who, having determined to possess the charming Doris him- self, will not give up his game until he has exhausted - Ol tp a 4 Ke, ~ * o? every means in his power, both aed and foul. Perhaps he has been arranging a nice little surprise for Terry—these Russians are exceedingly clever at such things, as the early morning dash on the camps of the allies at Inkerman during the Crimea proved, : where the overconfident British would have been overwhelmed: but for the gallantry of the French under “Marshal Eanrobert. | It is the baron’s desire to make. ‘Terry’ ‘appes ar ridicu-_