The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 291: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 286 the Seine will long mourn the loss of many of her most generous citizen patronesses. Wearied at length and sick at heart, Terry returns to the hotel. To his amazement he finds the girl from Hong-Kong and her maid sitting there in the rotunda watching the Wor. “It was useless—I could not stay in my room while you were at that terrible place,’’ she confesses naively, when he begins to express his surprise, and this disarms him at once—the dreadful night has given one man his mate for life, and the bonds cemented in the glory of his valor at the Charity fire no human being may. sever. She insists on, hearing some of the particulars, and, realizing that she is too nervous for any sleep, Terry relates certain of the more cheerful; but not a word of the three ghastly rows in the Palais de I’Industrie—that horror will haunt him forever, but she must not hear of it. CHAPTER XXXII. AN ANGLO-AMERICAN ALLPANCE, OFFENSIVE AND - DEFENSIVE. There is one thought weighing heavily upon the mind of Doris Evans, and in the course of her conversation with Terry it leaks out. Of course her anxiety is about her father. He was in the bazaar at the moment the cry of fire was raised. . Could he have been caught in the jam and wedged in until the flames swept down upon him? Being near the door at the time, there seems to be a strong possibility that he must have been pushed through by the forward pressure. | , ' More than one man who would have given much to assist the shrieking women found himself impotent be- cause his arms were crushed down at his-sides, and all he could do was to allow himself to be carried along, to finally shoot through the doorway, haunted_forever by comicbooks.com