The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 50: what you’re looking at

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a THE GIRL. FROM HONG-KONG. At any. rate he will bear watching. rae * So. they leave the colonel’s bungalew on Malabar Hilt and start. for the city proper.. Z | | ‘Derry | in making his. adieus to the colonel and his good wife } has made bold to mention the fact that he hopes to join the ‘expedition on the morrow, when it starts for the border where Averill is to settle certain disputes that have. arisen with the various hill tribes. ~ The colonel has expressed his satisfaction at the pros- peet of good company, and the exceeding warmth of his handshake substantiates his words, } | = So Terry feels some little satiatzation, im knowing that he will not be unwelcome in that quarter, though his eins sink again upon’ hearing that. the dashing baron has concluded to return home to Russia by way. of the overland youte rather than by water to she | Black Sea ports. 7 a He scents trouble ahéad. | | As before, the: young. gentleman lapses in arta. a state of deep thought. “ | . 8o much has. happened and su ich vast events “hinge “pone the way ‘fortune may smile that he has a groat deal to consider. 7 Cfo, ,% : To Pekoe Vay is given , the privilege of a sentry, and the-task could not be in better hands. While Terry” ‘smokes Ahe Chinaman peeps ont from: