The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 166: what you’re looking at

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160 LHE GIRL. FROM HONG-KONG. npon the. rack. in a manuer that proves his natural abil- ity to crucify.a witness. . oe ee _ M. Prevost has tithing to conceal, therefore the replies do not have to be wrung from his lips. Indeed, the gallant French exile has taken. quite a fancy to the man from London, and seeing which way the wind blows, might even wish. him success only that Terry’s rival in the case happens to be a Russian, and just at present. it is the fad. among. Frenchmen to sympathize with everything connected with the land of the White -Ozar, since the entente cordiale has been>.established between the two countries—an arrangement by the way which has already: yielded good fruit for Russia on sev- eral occasions, to. the discomfiture of Frenchmen, and never once to France, since England: still remains in Egypt and bids fair to carry out her grand plans.there, so that the unnatural alliance seems an: unholy one as well, to which France will presently awaken, realizing that her lot should be cast with Italy and England. ::.: - . At any rate M. Prevost has made a-treaty. with the baron, and means to favor his side of the case should. it come at any. time to a choice.. A few questions enable Terry. to discover that at least. his worst fears have not been realized, since Doris has not been kidnaped, but started on the ‘one journey to St.- Petersburg in Russta. . — 72 5 7 wh cera comicbooks.com