The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 312: what you’re looking at

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306 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. Donahue will in imagination again feel the wind whistle through his -hair, and hear the rattle of the wheels, the thud of the horses’ hoofs, the crack of Carajo’s whip, and his piercing voice shouting at the leaders as they swing through those dangerous mountain defies. CHAPTER XXXV. THE CAMP IN THE CANYON, There has been little time or opportunity to consider what their plan of action shall be, should they overtake the other diligence—their energies are so thoroughly em- ployed in this mad effort to annihilate time that they are leaving pretty much all the rest to chance. _ One thing is certain—sooner or later Doris must meet her runaway father face to face, no matter what the consequences may be—it has been delayed for many weeks while the strange pursuit continued by means of steamship, railroad express, caravan, diligence, and even a balloon called into requisition; but the end is near, the climax approaching. It is an extremely difficult task to figure out any sen: sible plan of action while under such terrific momentum, since the mind is almost wholly taken up with the prob- lem as to whether they will ever get through alive or not. ‘So Terry, after a vain effort, gives the enigma up as one that cannot be solved at present, and thus allows the future to look out for itself. » The exhilaration continues. am They appear to have reached a peculiar section of coun- try, since the road to the mines runs over innumerabl little elevations.; | . ' Down one of these they thunder like an avalanche, the horses tearing along at breakneck speed, and the momen- tum acquired appears sufficient to carry them up to the summit of the next little rise; when the plunge is repeated. It is very like a toboggan slide at one of the popular seaside resorts. : ; Upon the upper deck all is not so serene. oo icnooks.com