The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 146: what you’re looking at

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140 THE GIRL FROM HONGKONG. while he has not entirely given up hopes that something may profit him, through -this promenada, it becomes more shadowy, just as a beautiful dream fades.away into the stern reality of everyday life. Pd Still, he has marked out his course, and is hardly the man to retreat ‘so long asthe ghost of a show remains whereby he may hope.to learn something .congerning the plans of Doris’ enemies.. comicbooks.com