The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 331: what you’re looking at

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#HE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 325 fire-eating general, the lack of a leg rendering him unfit to scale a height like the canyon wall. There remained the driver, the professor and himself. Terry would jump at the chance only that he cannot bear the thought of leaving Doris; besides, the geologist has had long experience in clambering over rocks in qeates of specimens—yes, Smatterton is the man for the our. ! Another minute and Pekoe Tay has guided the man of science to Terry’s side, and the latter spins his little romance. He finds in the professor an eager ally. True, the latter declares he is shaking all over with a severe attack of fright, but by this time Terry has privately con- cluded there is considerable dry humor and sarcasm in this continual assertion of timidity, for he never saw a man so cool in action and so dauntless as this lanky Yankee professor. Evidently he must have his little joke, even at his own expense. The arrangements are soon made. _ Of course the others have to be informed, because they are interested, and besides, it ts essential that no shot from the barricade be fired while the attempt is in its initial stages. Preparations are speedily made, after which the pro- fessor tosses out a little more of his Greek fire, so that the others may send a few shots while he and Pekoe Tay minutely examine the opposite wall, so as to determine as closely as possible the course they will pursue. ~ No sooner does darkness descend once more. upon the ‘barranca than two figures noiselessly crawl out from among the tumbled rocks and move diagonally across what may have been the bed of an ancient torrent, strik- ing for the opposite wall. comicbooks.com