The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 344: what you’re looking at

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338 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. % As to his having been shot down by a random volley, surely his body would be there to attest this fact, and Terry has been unable to find it. | While he crouches there, forcing his tired eyes to do their duty, Terry becomes conscious -of the fact that some one is creeping toward him, some one who crosses the canyon and moves a little clumsily. His first thought is to cover the spot with his gun, although unable to make out the party; but he does not press the trigger, remembering that one of their number is without the ramparts. Before Sandy left them a signal was arranged, and widen cet gives this now he ‘hears a faint answer re- ura CHAPTER XL. THROUGH FIRE AND SMOKE. It is Sandy without a doubt. The mystery of his disappearance is soon explained, and his comung breathes a new hope. Terry is the first to greet the Highlander and help him over the rocky fortification. & “I looked along the other wall for you and couldn’t find a single trace. We began to fear the enemy had laid hands on you,” he says eagerly, for something seems to tell him the Scot has news, good news—perhaps it is in the air, or telepathy Hashes the vague fact from one mind to another. . “Aweel,” says Sandy, who is still breathing hard as after an exertion, “I have been oot of the de’il’s hole, ye ken, the while.” “Out of the canyon—up above?” “Man, the air is unco’ pleasant up yonder, and down here it reminds one very much of Satan’s home.” “No doubt, no doubt; but tell me, how did you get out —that’s the main point just now?” “Just across the gully there’s a wee bit of a crack in the wall which I entered to escape the bullets,.and finds.