The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 120: what you’re looking at

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114 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. how he stands in her estimation. In love and war sucn things are permissible. ‘*After all you have done for me that would not be possible. Tam under heavy obligations to you and the baron, which I can never repay,’’ Doris says earnestly, and Terry quite agrees with her that one of them is bound tq be left out in the cold—in some countries men are allowed a harem full of wives, but there. has never ‘yet been a law that gave a woman permission to have two husbands, America with lax divorce laws being a closest to that line. It being apparent that Doris has reconsidered her intention of telling him all, Terry makes no effort to influence her, and other subjects coming up, they fail to get back again to the same point. 7 Then comes the baron with his winning ways and Terry drops out, since he knows he can never compete with one so elegantly fashioned for making an impres- sion on the tender and susceptible hearts of the fair sex. Disconsolate he wanders about the tavern, wishing almost savagely that something definite might occur to draw the line more sharply. - He cannot stand this suspense much longer at any rate—if the: baron has won it is well for him to- know the facts so that he may give the Russian no further trouble. comicloooks.conm