The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 179: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. LGS | you expeot them back,. m’sieur?” asks Terry, recovering his breath as.a man might after the douche. ‘“At-any moment—I believe I hear them laughing and chattering at the porte cochere even now as they leave the vehicle.”’ ‘‘Do not mention my presence, please, but give my eard to the fair young American, Miss Doris Evans. A private interview, you understand, monsieur—it is of the greatest importance.”’ “Beep into this small roomn—I-will mnysels arrange it as you say.’ The hotel man scents a romance in the air, and these Russians, living in.an atmosphere of intrigue, -have a keen sympathy for the lover. Terry is not slow to whisk his person beyond the tapestries, especially since he has cau ght the hated sound of his rival’s voice, ~Safe back of the portiére he cannot resist the tempta- tion to peep from behind the hanging curtain, eager to discover how she takes the news of his arrival, which may tell him all he has so eagerly desired to know. - She is there, looking more lovely and picturesque than ever, he thinks, and yet when the others laugh over some witticism he fails to see that she joins in with their light-hearted merriment. | Ah! the bonkomee proprietor approaches and speaks comicbooks.com