The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 138: what you’re looking at

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132 HE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. CHAPTER X{II. ONE CALLED, THREE FOLLOW« LaTER on, when Terry has an opportunity to consider the tremendous odds against him, and remembers that with the ‘possible exception of Sandy and Pekoe Tay, . those two faithful retainers, it is his arm against all, he realizes the nature of the task whieh love for a woman has caused him to assume, and which might well: be placed alongside the labors of Hercules. of late years matters seem to be shaping themselves : so that it often appears as though England is pitted against the rest of the world, and one of her sons should hardly complain wiron thrown -on his own resources and forced to face Russian, Mexican and divers other foes. Such a condition of affairs is apt to stimulate the brain and arouse a man to a true sense of his own im- portance in the battle: of life—to cause every nerve to, tingle with the eagerness ‘of a hound held in the leash, or a race-horse about to cross the line. ; Phis night in Teheran is tated to be pr olific of advo _ bare to.our man from London. comicbooks.com