The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 300: what you’re looking at

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French timer for New York they can ‘be quietly married and prepare to leave Liverpool on the ‘swift Cumarder Campania, which, sailing on the same day, will reach New York at least twenty-four hours ahead. Terry keeps ‘his detective ‘at work and arranges to receive hourly messages, informing him as to just what the eccentric Warren Ewans may be deing—for a man who gets married to one whom he has previously -dis- liked, and on the spur of the moment, as ft were, is Table to break loose in ‘almost any direction. Another day passes. Friday comes at last. There has been no change—each message received im- dicates that Mexico is the goal, since Warren Ewans has already secured passage for himself and wife on board La Champagne. \ . Hence VYerry wires for accommodations, and they are booked for the speedy Campania. On Friday, therefore, they teave Paris, with afl their attendants im ‘tow, and bring up-in London. Here another night is passed at the Hotel Cecil, and on Saturday morning Terry asks Sandy, together with Pekoe Tay and the maid, to enter a coach and proceed to a certain church where he and Doris will join them. Great is the delight of the faithful adherents when they realize the startling truth, and no young couple ever started upon the double voyage on life’s ocean with more, earnest and hearty good wishes than falls te their portion. They reach Liverpool too late for the steamer, but 1n- tend crossing the channel from Holyhead to Dublin and taking a train to Queenstown, where on the following day they will go aboard as she stops to pick up the Irtsh maul, It is the happiest moment of Terry Donahue’s life when he calls the girl from Hong-Kong by that sweetest of all names, ‘“‘wife;” and, having seen him in times that might try the stoutest soul, Doris gives herself ‘to the man she loves, nay, almost worships, confident that he will ever strive to prove himself a true modern knight, ready to comicbooks.con