The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 99: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 93 \ less, his men will often seize’ the ‘last sticks of an old man,.and if the people; seeing starvation staring them in the face, resist they: are liable to be put to death by torture, as in, this case, if what was in the mouth of every one was true. In the old days it was necessary to make a frightful example of.a few caravan robbers to keep the road through the Kotabs safe. In a country Z where it is customary to commit suicide in a fanatical way—as, for instance, when wives throw themselves on their husbands’ funeral pyres in India—an outery oNen is made in Europe, and yet in a country full of Europeans men are taken out in broad daylight and cruelly mur- dered by the roadside.”’ Terry, like others, has read and heard of these strange things, and while he sees no ‘‘gatching’’ in Teheran, the awful spectacle, of the three. dead robbers swinging. in the night breeze from the bridge, and dangling head down, is one he can never recall without a shudder. 7 His, almond- ayaa yoteiner trots close to his heels, and keeps a bright lookout for danger—to Pekoe Tay every stranger is an enemy until he has proved himself & friend. F . _ It is, sometimes, A remarkably fine hing t to hagas a com- paniou who is suspieious by nature—at least it takes some. of the worry from Terry’s mind, and gives. him an comicbooks.com