The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 209: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 208 lovely girl—now he feels a reverent worship that would almost impel him to kneel then and there, to kiss the hem of her garment. In his adoring eyesshe is an angel of light. ‘ “Say no more, my dear young lady. As you sup- posed, and as these wonderful police who know every- thing have informed you, your noble father came direct to me upon reaching St. Petersburg. I had not onoe thought of his being unbalanced in his mind, he seemed so bright.and clear in all matters wherein we conversed. I believed his strange story of mysterious pursuers, and was compelled to promise him all the assistance in my power in order that he might throw them off the track.” Doris gives a low fy, taking the slarm. ‘ - ‘Am I then too late?’’ she asks. ‘*T regret to tell you he is gone.”’ “Then I must follow—you will give me points, tell me his destination.’” ; “IT would if it lay in my power. Alas! I can only give a weak guess. He spoke of Paris, and 1 have an idea he will bring. up there.’ ‘‘Bué you can direct me so that I may follow in the game way he has gone—on the road he may need me—it is my one haunting fear that something may happen and his only child be away—that he will call for Doris and receive no answer. ‘Tell me, you can, you will do this?’ comicbooks.com