The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 192: what you’re looking at

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186 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. Terry has had a clear understanding with the gir: who holds the strings of his heart in her hands. Ah! the hotel is before them, and ag he slights‘the young Briton ag4in orders his driver to wait. Then he plunges past porters like a ternade and sends up his card to Doris, who makes her appearance: very modestly dressed and veiled. wt : Sandy, much to his regret, is left behind and a plaee found for Pekoe Tay beside the driver, though the agile Mongol will have to hang on tooth and nail te preserve his equilibrium, such igs the rolling nature of their voyage over the granite blocks of the Nevskoi Prospekt. comicbooks.com