The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 18: what you’re looking at

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12 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. ‘The colonel—I might have guessed it. Now. comes the question—will Doris stay in Bombay?” Terry has propounded this query to himself and he is sonsidérably surprised to: hear, in the monotone of the :mperturbable Chinee, the-one word: . ‘“No.”’ ‘“‘Look here, what, reason have you for believing that, my man?’’ he demands suddenly. . ‘‘Pekoe Tay know.”’ 7 “You do,eh? Well, I’m just dying to be enlightened.. How do you feel so cock sure Doris will speedily leave Bombay on this wild-goose chase ?’’ ‘‘Hear her tell the soldier mogul.”’ . “That settles it. ame if I could only find out the whereabouts of the baron.’ a That is easy,’’ says Pekoe ‘Tay quietly. Dow. “Of course it is—all I have to, do is to ask’ you, for you have seen him too.’ : ““Yes—eyes everywhere; ears all the same open to hear what concerns my -mandarin.”’ “Don’t I know it—you’ve become my right hand. I couldn’t live - without Pekoe Tay, and I’ve many times blessed the day I hauled you out of the shark’s: mae after those Japanese devils had sunk our man-o’-war in the naval battle. Now tell me all you know about the ~baron.’”’ > comicbooks.com