The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 147: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KON6. 141 CHAPTER XIV. THE HAND OF KAJA MULIE. -“Tarry Donauve has not the ‘remotest idea where this Persian guide means to lead him, though once he gets an indistinct grasp upon the location when on his right looms up the shah’s palace, including the king’s berune, ushams-al-amara or palace of the sun, and other offices, the whole massive structure forming 4 square with streets on all sides. : A suspicion even flits through his mind that possibly he has been summoned to appear before some high tribunal, for in Persia the rulers carfy matters as they please, snapping their fingers at other nations; but this notion vanishes as speedily as it appeared, for they pass on. At last the guide stops. “™ They are in a quiet street, around them the squat houses peculiar to Teheran. : Sounds there are, since no-part of the Persian capital: ig ever quiet, but just here they: scem subdued; as: though mellowed by: distance.” :* ° Terry knews the decisive time has arrived when the: comicbooks.com