The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 218: what you’re looking at

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212 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. follows the-man who holds their destiny in the. hollow of his hand. , Smolensko has his eyes fastened upon Pekoe Tay, whose presence up to this time he has hardly noticed. —: ‘“‘I. will answer for his fidelity and silence with my fife,’’ says Terry, readily guessing the puzzling thoughts that must be racing like mad through his-brain, and his assurance goes a great way toward satisfying the fugitive sword-master, who has conceived a sudden and powerful liking for-the quiet little Briton.. | ‘‘Then we will go.. In a more secure place I will repeat the oath to each one—there is no time now.” Indeed, from the increasing racket.in other portions of the building it is evident that they will be wise to vacate without ceremony, since it cannot be long before - the soldiers will burst open the door. Now. bégins a flight the end of which no man can foresee. | Terry feels a great sympathy for the girl thus com- pelled to abandon the comforts to which.she has been accustomed all her life, and endure privations and perils without number, all because of filial affection. . One thing alone gives him satisfaction,. and ‘it. is astonishing how tenaciously -he. clings to that—there seems to be almost a. surety that should:fortune favor —Saeir_ultimate.escape from :Russia by. mens of this: comicbooks.com