The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 286: what you’re looking at

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280 . - THE GIRL FROM .HONG-KONG. idea—there must of necessity be-some exit there, familiar; to these people, and if so it offers an avenue of escape. Terry lingers no longer; but, turning, throws that pro- tecting arm of his about the woman he loves, while, bend- ing down, he shouts so as to be heard above the frightfut ‘clamor : ’ . oo “Do not be alarmed, my darling—with God’s help I will save you.” | CHAPTER XXX. HOW ONE BRITON’S ARM OPENED THE WAY FOR THIRTY SOULS. _ Doris has seen him under other conditions when the flood-tide of battle and of death surged near—she has the fullest confidence in her modern knight, and his ‘words ‘go far toward restoring her courage. Perhaps,in the excitement of the moment she may not have noticed how naturally he says “my darling,” but it will come ‘back to her mind later on, when she allows herself to remem- ber this dread moment and all it marks. Terry does not confine himself to words—éven as he speaks he has started with his precious burden in the direction of the rear. é | The fire has spread with such startling rapidity that ‘already it almost cuts off the chances of escape in‘ that direction. Those upon the floor also bar his progress. Ladies, ¢razed with fear, seek to clutch hold of ‘him, as though one man in this mad hour could accomplish the salvation of all. a Thus Terry is beset on all sides—he finds his passage to the rear cut off by the flames, and is forced toward the right wall, where the inmates of the bazaar crowd like a flock of frightened sheep, afraid to enter the awful. struggle at the main exits and hoping for escape through ‘the barred window of the Hotel du Palais, which: the. staff of the hostelry has smashed open, and _are busied OMG