The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 265: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL PROM HONG-KONG. 259 At one of these stations Terry chances to make a dis- covery that arouses suspicion and anger. Several other travelers have come out of their coops to work some of the kinks from their legs, and among them Donahue catches sight of a face he has seen before, and which he is not apt to soon forget. It is the countenance of Sefior Enrique, the swarthy Mexican who has so persistently followed Doris.and her crack-brained father almost halfway around the world, and who seems devoted to his schemes, whatever they may be. Terry fumes over his discovery not a little, and even considers whether it would be right to boldly demand a reason for the man’s dogging her steps. Possibly none will be given, and he dares not venture upon extremes, because he knows how averse the young Jady herself would be to any street brawl, nor does he possess ‘the right to act as her representative. So he nurses his wrath in secret, and swears he will not hold his hand should the fortune of war bring them face to face ina country where such scenes are not 80 uncommon as in the Old World. At least, so long as Terry remains on guard he shall have little opportunity to carry out any dark scheme; and the fact that he has thus betrayed his presence serves to draw his fangs in part, since forewarned is. forearmed. comicloooks.conm