The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 322: what you’re looking at

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916 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. bodily. injury, only that Doris has called aloud the name of “my father,” and madam sees a great light. ; Meanwhile, Terry has had his hands full attending to the valorous general. That worthy evidently has his fighting clothes: on—at least, there is blood in his eyé. Finding that his bellowing to an imaginary regiment has had no apparent effect in frightening intruders, male and female, away, General Manuel Lopaz shakes himself together, as it were, and proceeds to make. ‘Praparation to annihilate the foe. '. Luckily for Terry and his followers, he is so slow in his movements that an opportunity is given to frustrate his murderous designs, Before he can elevate the’ gun he has picked up from the ground, Terry has caught the barrel_in a fierce grip, so that, although the piece is discharged, it does | no one any damage. | All the ,;while he is shouting at the top of his voice: “We are friends of Mr. Evans—this is his daughter— we have followed to warn you. There is danger above. Men lie among the rocks ready to murder. you... Let us join forces and beat them. back. Do you understand, General I,opez?—we are friends, amigo.’ Thus the doughty warrior is brought to realize some- thing of the truth. He recognizes that there is a vast difference between the man who came tumbling into the camp, and this party who speaks English. Perhaps his eyes in roving upward have discovered the figures that cling to the face of the cliffs. “At any rate, a sudden notion having struck -him, he desists from his frantic endeavor to regain full posses- sion of the gun and stretches out, his hand. Perhaps that word “amigo” fetches him, or else he recognizes a friend in Terry. There is neither the time nor place for explanations which can come afterward, if at all. Terry releases the gun. “There are your enemies—Senor Evans’ enemies— above,” he cries. comichooks.cam