The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 51: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 45 time to time in order to see whether they are going in the right direction, remembering the “former experience. _ | | Both Pekoe Tay and his master are armed, and capa- ble of a pretty stiff defense-should the occasion arise. As the road isa frequented one it is hardly likely any enemies would dream of waylaying them. ‘Such things have in times past happened near the Towers of Silence, where the dead Parsees or sun- worshipers are given to the vultures, and even under the shadow of that famous pile, the Temple of Mahaluxmee; but the watchful ‘British authorities had acted BO promptly on these ocea- sions that the Thugs are lying quiet just now—the ‘society of assassination is asleep, not dead. They have gone perhaps a quarter of the distance when ‘Pekoe Tay, who has been listening intently, rises from his seat. Terry watches him languidly. | At first he imagines the Mongolian guide is about to leap out of the curtained opening and possibly throttle the driver. On the contrary Pekoe Tay kneels down on the bottom of the box. . - Terry, puffing at his.cigar, causes a species of dim light to pervade the limited interior every time: he draws-at hi weed, and: ‘by this glimmer he sees his honey maa, not comicbooks. com