The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 34: what you’re looking at

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28... THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. until the desperate occasion arises, when they. meet it grandly;-just.as the stormy. petrel. glories 1 in the howling gale. It is a characteristic trait. of the —_—_ race. Oy i The Bhendy: Bazar. Road. with al shops and mosques, its mingling. -crowds and curious sights, has lost ‘all ~ attraction for him. >-At least: his main object has been accomplished." ~* With Pekoe Tay trailing after, ‘the young man makes his way to the hotel ati which he stops. Several tines he halts on the way to look into the notebook for the card upon ‘which Doris scribbled. her address, ‘as if to make sure it has not‘escaped him. Where one’s treasuyd is, there will’ the heart be also. ee yer Night is closingin. » ails Numerous lights appear, like giant fireflies. ~ So’ great is the heat of the day in Bombay that’ the night ‘is tiade a time of merriment and feasting. Music ‘sounds ‘on many sides. Remembering the shadow that hangs over the land, it is surprising te see signs of gayety abroad: bat the gravest of disasters never quite crushes those fatalists who found their belief upon Mohammedanisin. tg Terry is surprised ‘at nothing. RE SS aS ‘ When oné has spent a year or tivo amiong the people of Ohina and India, he learns to take everything philosoph- ically. What concerns him is the giganticntitoa eoepiin