The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 269: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG 263 who has been such a factor in his struggle to win a sweetheart. - | | r | True, he has a dekeription of him, and frequently glances sharply at certain individuals bearing some resemblance to the first Napoleon, for Doris has spoken. of her parent as possessing some of the characteristics of the Little Corporal. | When he again sees Doris he has much to tell her, much to form the subject of their conversation. A The young girl has stood the anxiety connected with her long journey m amanner simply remarkable, and Terry thinks she looks just as fresh and dainty this morning as he can remember. He is no longer the despairing lover, but possessed of the conviction that Doris returns his passion, feels a feverish joy in every nerve. All she desires is an opportunity to meet her father before he sails. Perhaps the sight of her face may bring him back to his senses—at least she hopes it will awaken again the old love with which he was wont to regard her. It must be Terry’s task to bring about this opportu- nity, and in order to do so he desires to know something about the other’s movements. Again he seeks the aid of the secret police—it is only “a question of geld with them, and an expert is put upon comicbooks.com