The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 152: what you’re looking at

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146 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. names as grace those pages. Every day we read of gal- lant deeds by hitherto unknown heroes, men in the . humble walks of life, who risk and sémotines lose life in the endeavor to snatch a child ora helpless woman from death in the blazing tenement or the raging torrent —men perhaps like Jim Bludsoe, the river pilot, who held her against the bank with the greedy flames around him, until the last soul had been saved, and yielded up the ghost himself. Then those who scoff at bravery are lacking in all ms dements that go to make up a man. | Terry Donahue is decidedly averse to shedding human blood, but there are occasions when the most positive scruples are bound to give way. . | - He can see that these wild-looking figures mean to do him injury—if they seek not his life at least they will not hesitate to disfigure his countenance so that he will ever be a horrible sight among men, from whom gentle Doris must shrink. ‘Such being the case the time is not for doubt or hesi- tation, but prompt action. Englishmen have before this stood at bay until the bodies of their enemies formed a rampart around them, and with every nerve toned up to : the fighting pitch he believes himself able to do bis share i in the bloody work that seems on the programme. ° “Perhaps men like ‘Terry are too fair; ‘but he cannot comicbooks.com