The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 319: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 313 _ Tf.Senor. Enrique and his picked crowd of desperadoes are in concealment near by, it is with the undoubted intention of dashing out at some prearranged time and assaulting the camp. Terry has seen the class of men whom the bold schemer has gathered together. He knows they will fight, since nothing pleases your genuine, unadulterated tough better than to join in a fracas. Bullets will fly, and the danger be great—this is the sele reason why Terry wishes his Doris could be safe within the stanch walls of the Hotel Iturbe on this night when under a Mexican sky. He is a man always ready to make the best of a bad bargain, and all he can do under the circumstances is to keep Doris out of the range of fire as much as possible. _ Closer still, and the figures about the fire can be readily distinguished. _ | Terry is even able to hear their voices distinctly, and _begins to figure how the eccentrt€é old mine owner from - Hong-Kong: will receive the daughter from whom he has so strangely fled. There is a son-in-law in the case, too, he grimly re- members; and the French madam, how will she be recon- ciled to her new relations? On the whole, it is quite an interesting affair, and one which Terry fervently wishes were well over, since he would be quite content to take his wife and never con- sider the eccentric pater again. Surely there has come a sudden change in the spirit of the camp. | The voices are still heard, but, instead of the careless abandon of those who dream of no danger, he can dis- tinguish notes of a sudden alarm. There has come a crashing sound at the same time, a -rattling of earth very much ‘after the manner of a young -avalanche,jand while this is overwhelmed in the feminine shrieks of “the French woman, together with valorous commands from the one-legged general, Terry Donahue has little trouble in guessing the truth. comicibooks.com