The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 234: what you’re looking at

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22 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. ber for this golden opportunity | to win his suit againss the handsome Russian noble. Once, out of the land of the czar he can laugh.at fate and the baron, since by his action in merging his fortunes with those of the devoted daughter he has succeeded in winning a woman’s. undy- ing devotion. | , The rain has ceased, and Smolensko reports, the stars shining again. -Doris moves, and seems bewildered at first. “I have been asleep,”’ she says quickly, moving away alittle, as though startled. “‘For.two hours,.[ imagine, and I was very glad, ‘tor you needed rest,”’ he replies gently. : .‘fAnd I suppose you never do—that you can stand anything?” she says reproachfully, for Terry has very reluctantly removed his supporting arm—indeed, after such gallant service the poor member when finally started drops almost a dead weight at his side. | “Pardon. me for saying 80, but that was the happiest two .hours in all my life. I think I could stand it indefinitely,’’ he whispers, and .the darkness ig merciful in. that it hides her furious blushes, for she has become. aware that her head must have been quietly reclining upon his shoulder all this time as though it had a. per- fect right there. | : a 7 | Have we. heen. making good progress?’? : ale: asks, to comicbooks.com