The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 25: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 19 before I could attract your attention. How is the little fellow getting along?’’ -~ “Little fellow —I confess I hardly grasp your meaning.’”’ “The boy ?’’ “‘Ah—which boy in particular, Miss Doris?’’ but he has started at her words and bends a.quick glance upon her earnest face. “The boy whose life you saved early this morning, at the risk of your own.” _“T am afraid you estimate the little affair much too seriously. It did not amount to much.” =‘ How her eyes light age=samoboeeloualy she places ‘one hand on his shoulder as he stands there besidg the oblong black box on wheels, and Terry can feel the elec- trieity of her touch through duck coat and all. ‘Perhaps not in your estimation, but there was a fair enance of your being made a victim to those wretches. I wag cold and dumb with terror until I saw the guards come running from the barracks, and the crowd scatter. I shall not soon forget the sight as you stood over that boy, Mr. Donahue. Will you suffer any harm from the affair?’’ Terry has flushed under her words, but recovers with a jump. After all, she simply admires him as one might a win- comicbooks.com