The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 100: what you’re looking at

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a PH @IRE PROM HONG-KONG. opportunity to ‘coysider other facts having a hearmng on the cage. Foreigners appear so frequently in the streets of Teheran that ordinarily but little attentign is paid to them. . “iy It is somewhat different at just the time our friends arrive, amd Terry, noticing the black looks and scowls east upor him, wonders what has ocearred to irritate ’ these Persians, usually well disposed toward the Franzees: To Pekoe Tay is givem the task of ascertaiming just what is in the wind. 7 The Celestial! hkes nothing better tan a little detec- tive work of this sort, and he is enabled to- cirewlate among the natives without much notice, om account of his yellow skin and the adoption of a caftan of silk. It isnot hard to pick up a little here and a little there, | go a connected story may be arranged. | After all it is a question of religious zeal—even. in Persia has come news of the Armenian massacres, and the smell of Christian blood seems to arouse the Moham- medan spirit—the suecess of the Turkish arms against . the Greeks has awakened! a long-do rmant military zeal,., and the end no man can prophecy, as a holy war may yet be inaugurated im which many nations will take part. » 3 Under auch conditions it certainly behooves one to be. comicbooks. conn