The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 268: what you’re looking at

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262 THH GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. The two men reached Paris in company and there separated, the Russian going to an hotel while the party in whom Terry is interested, and who still travels under the name of Warren Edwards, has sought lodgings at a rather fancy pension, possibly recommended to him by some tourist American traveler as a place well worthy of patronizing. . That is all Terry really wishes, although hearing something about the man’s movements since reaching the gay metropolis on the river Seine. The fact that the_ fugitive spent some time in the office of a steamship company indicates very plainly that he looks ‘beyond | Paris, and the chances are, Terry believes, their long quest will terminate in the land of the Mlontezumas, where lie the silver mines that have been the loadstone drawing’ the rich but eccentric American from distant Hong-Kong all the way across India and Europe to the French capital. At least Terry is quite satisfied that he has received the worth of the napoleons invested. He drives past the pension indicated, as if to locate it in his mind for future use. _ Somehow he thinks it about time he should set eyes on Doris’ father—it is a remarkable fact that after pur- suing him for thousands of miles,’ being very often close upon his heels, is should not have once seen the | arty comicbooks.com