The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 261: what you’re looking at

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THR GIRL ¥ROM HONG-KONG 255 “Get ready to leave on the next train, which starts for Berlin in half an hour,’”’ he calls out as soon as Doris appenrs In view. Of course she is startled. ~ “*Have tley arrived?’ she questions eagerly. “Yes, and left Konigsberg the first thing this. gmorping.”’ ‘““My father?” “From all I could learn he was as well as usual.”’ ‘Berlin, you say?’’ ‘““Yes, but that is on the read to Paris, and they may not intend stopping there. I shall take the pains to make sure of it by wiring.”’ “Can you do so without alarmjng him?” _ “fo be sare.” Then we will get ready. When will you call for us?’ “In ten minutes, Lthink.”? = / With that he is off, reatizing the value of time. Perhaps Terry does not find all things coming his way, Since the Germans are intolerably slow in the eyes of ene who has Jearned how to hustle through contact with Yankees and others. ‘t Nevertheless, if one has a fair amount of tact and the wherewithal in the shape of hard cash to lubricate the wheels, considerable time may be saved. -When the stipulated ten:minutes have passed he i8 a5 cEqniclooks.conn