The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 70: what you’re looking at

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a 4 re Pa Tits tit FROM HONG-KONG. single native hunter; waiting-for the terror of the jungle | to appréach the bleating calf; and ‘how the hand of the shikarxee - trembled like an aspen -leaf as he clutehed ‘Terry’ ig arm-and pointed ‘to’ the monster standing ‘over: thie ‘suddenly silent calf. ; “= To this day Terry affirms that it was the greatést good fortune that ever befell him that his first leaden messen- ger should have been guided straight to the’heart of the man-eater; and ‘he has not” forgotten the tremendots — ovation the’ nadie of that district gave him for having yelieved them of the terror thet for' weeks had preyed. upon t the community. . + Again day comes. Still on toward the extreme bcrder. The route is now a mere apology for a _road, bat it answers all the purposes for which it was designed, and considerable traffic passes over it. ‘ Terry has seen’ Doris on several occasions, but as they are in separate compartments he bides his time, know- ing that later on when it comes to the caravan stage many opportunities will SOD up of which he can avail himself. . : os 2 Besides, he is shrewd enough to know that: there is such a thing as seeing too much’ of a person. upon a $tip like the present. © At any rate the baron apparently has ‘the. inside. tre