The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 196: what you’re looking at

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¥90 THE GIRL PROM HONG-KONG. scrutiny on her part, as she momentarily brushes aside her veil the better to see the sword handlers. -The clash of steel is m the air, and somehow when accompanied by the- flashing of the twisting, writhing, blades in the yellow gaslight, it stirs the stagnant blood, and makes the heart of a man pound against his ribs, since there is an electric free masonry in the magi« elick that brings back to memery fields ef carnage where war- riors met face to face to share the soldier’s fate.. ‘If Doris has hoped to discover the party she seekg among the swordsmen she is mistaken. Terry has been aecosted by the Cerberus who ener the door and who immediately hurries away in searels ef the proprietor. { While they. wait they comment upen the picturesque decoration of the little arena, where bunting is abon- dantly displayed, the Russian colors bemg partieukarly prominent; since it isa lounging place for hussar and dragon and guardsman, it is eminently fitting that their surreundings ‘should be m keeping with their calling. Ah! here comes Peter Smolensko. | Terry sees alittle figure, a restless: eye, and knows the ~seeret of this master swordsman’s power. Undoubtedly the man of nerve is puzzled to aceount for the presence of a lady’: his resort, for he does net eater to any fad, and bis quarters are as a general thing comicbooks.com