The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 26: what you’re looking at

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-_ 20 | THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. ning .Tace horse, or a gladiator in the arena—that is quite unlike the feeling he would wish to inspire-within her heart. ie J do not anticipate it, though those Thugs may give me a run-for my money yet. You know the society is a ‘power in this strange land.”’ “The boy must have fallen under their ban, poor little fellow. He faced them, too, most defiantly. Do you know why they tried to injure him?” | ‘Oh! there’s some remarkable story back of it all, which I expect to unravel piecemeal. He isin food, hands now, and in no danger.” Then Terry changes the subject deftly by asking about her pwn presence in Bombay. ‘‘T shall not be here long, | imagine,”’ she replies, and there is a peculiar tightening of the lips, together with alook upon her face that plainly indicates a desire to say as little as possible about her own affairs. * : “Will you sail for London, or hack to Hong-Kong by | Ayay of Singapore?”’ | “Possibly neither. I am unable to decide just now. Circumstances over which I have no contrel may. necessi- tate my taking & very. arduous and dangerous journey _ through, Afghanistan to Teheran.’ At this Terry looks aghast. » “Do you, really mean it?” he says slowly, and yet at comicbooks.com