The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 95: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG.: 89 “Doris retirés at-onee to her-room,'and has her. supper sent there. € ferry, never having been under. Persian skies before, would fain look “about-a.little, nor. does he find -Pekoe Tay at-all backward about accompanying him. . * - Teheran is run “wide open,”’ as a Western miner might term it—all sorts of vice of the peculiar breed -known to Mohammedanism flourishes unrestrained. | Gambling and kindred ways of passing the time are openly practiced. ‘Tt isa hard country, however, for a man who has a poor conception as to what constitutes.his own property —those convicted of robbery are punished by death. _ Three robbers are hanging by the heels from the para- pet ofa bridge at the time Terry wanders about tho Persian capital, and revealed by. the glare of several torches, replenished by. soldiers on guard, these dan- gling bodies present an awful example to their friends. Other wretches who have been guilty of the awful crime of dodging the taxes have suffered a fate beside which the burning of the martyrs at the stake was mild. When affairs do not go right in Persia, the authorities adopt severe measures in order that the people learn: to respect the laws. . ; The murder of the late shah: scemed to encourage ths aomad tribes in. acts.of lawlessness. On the road be- comicbooks.com