The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 132: what you’re looking at

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126 THE GEIRE PROM HONG-KONG. close together that he catehes her perfumed breath; while oeasionally some wanton gust of air blews one ef her stray tresses across his face which he would fain imprison and press to his lips, yet dares not. ‘‘T am a plain man, as you know, Misa Doris, and having something of importance to communicate it is not my method to spin a long yarn, but hew close to the line. ‘Tt is to your faithful henchman Sandy, for whom I have conceived a great faney, that we are indebted fer news of the utmost importance.” “Ab! yes, I owe him much more than I can repay. He is faithful te his trust—I believe it is the usual virtue of his clannish people,” she murmurs. “‘T have alwavsa believed in the Seotch. Well, as I was saying, Sandy beckoned. me ever to yonder tchai- khen, which you know is a tea-house, or, in plainer Tanguage, a saloon. “‘He had by acetdent overheard part of a conversation between two men. It was not so much what they said, as their identity that gives me cause for anxiety. Yeu remember Kaja Muhe?” ‘‘Surely.”’ “We believed he was slain on that night.” “Or earried away a prisoner by the hill tribes.” - “Neither fate overtook him. He must have been in Jeagne with the assailants, and deserted. ua when he comicbooks.com