The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 125: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 119 —— other ‘in a broken way that told me he was of.a-dark skin." I had heard that same voice—sure, one could never for- ‘get it, since it was as rasping asa file. I at once cudg- eled my brains, sor, to bring him to mind, and at last success came.”’ “It was Kaja Mulie,’’ quietly remarks Terry. ‘“Aweel, that was a bright ruess, laddie, and I am of the opinion you are not surprisea.”’ “No, Isaw him in the horse auction among a lot of the toughest characters in Teheran.”’ ‘ ‘So, he said he had been there, by.my word he did, sor. Tothink of us wasting our breath lamenting the wretch’s fate that night when he turns out a braw rascal, and in league with our enemies! ‘As I lay there listening to them, and catching a part of what was said, it occurred to me, sor, that I was marked out to be the instrnment in the hands of an all- wise Providence to lay them by the heels and circumvent their calculations. “My first desire was to discover, so be it I could, who the schemer might be-with whom our’ Kaja Mulie talked. ) ‘As I hearkened more and more, suddenly it flashed aéross me brain and I kenned it weel. It was a gentle- man who used to veesit Mees Doris and her father in Hong-Kong.”’ comicbooks.com