The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 32: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

26 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. the crowd in the direction of Pekoe Tay, curious to know what has happened. to that usually undemonstra- tive individual to call for such a display of animation. The Chinese valet has resumed his normal condition upon discovering that his master has started, but shows no sign of meeting him halfway. “‘Well, what’s gone wrong now?”’ asks Terry, coming _ up, and mopping a wet. brow. ~ “Spose Mandarin Terry read this,’’ slipping a wad of paper into the young man’s hand, which he straighteris out as best he can and begins to read. comicbooks.com