The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 233: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 227 Presently Smolensko comes running back, wet from the rain, but with satisfaction in his veice. “IT tied the horse among the trees. They will find neither until late to-morrow, for a fire and a glass of warm vodky will have too great attractions this awful night to allow their remembering him! By that time we will be far away.’’ So he dismisses the subject and the journey is re- sumed. ‘They can only converse in whispers, and but little is said. The cart moves easily enough, their pace is slow, and the patter of the rain upon the canvas roof. drums a monotonous tune that acts as a sedative. By and by Terry feels his companion resting against hin, and realizes that she has fallen asleep. The condi- tions will certainly excuse him if he place an arm around her to prevent her from falling. © And so Doris sleeps on, her head resting on the left shoulder of the man she at one time thought a very ordinary individual, his strong arm clasped about her as though it might be his dearest privilege on earth to thus protect her. ~The minutes lengthened into an hour—two of them. Several times Doris has sighed and moved, but wearied from what she has passed through, sleeps on. As to the man who has enthroned her in his heart as its queen forever and aye, he thanks Heaven times without num- comicbooks.com