The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 91: what you’re looking at

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j THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 85 '. He wonders if it can be possible some unknown, person could have been with these. assailants, for whom Doris and the party she seeks may have an uncommon interest? _ This is but a beginning, and yet from little acorns tall oaks grow, so that the future may develop amazing things. od They continue the journey. 7 Vigilance has already paid them, and dew do net mean to relax their care. | So the days slip by, and the tutte come and go, each one seeing them further on their way over mountain and plateau. Terry has wondered why Doris selected this tedious route when there are other ways ‘tar more comfortable and expeditious, by means of which they could gain the Afghan capital. _ At last Herat! 7 , Doris is in a fever of suspense, and proceeds to make inquiries, having letters from persons of influence in India that give her the entrée to official circles in the ameer’s capital. ; Although Terry does not. intrude, he soon learns their, course is onward to Teheran. | . Whatever the mysterious influence may be _ that beckons Doris, it means the land of the shah, the coun- try of which comparatively so little is known, and_yet comcbooks.com