The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 153: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 147 believe it right to open his batteries without some warn- ing. So he gives it, bellowing ‘forth: “Keep back! I warn you once for all, there’s death waiting here. Stand back!’ ‘They pay no heed. Terry hears a voice he knows fall well—though it is shriller than ever with passion, he understands that Kaja Molie is on deck. —~- . That fact clinches the whole matter—it is a trap, then, in which Doris’ enemy the Mexican, and possibly even the baron himself, may be concerned. His hesitation takes flight. As the dusky figures have started toward them, he has only to select his man and fire. When the fellow goes down in a fluttering heap Terry experiences a queer feeling, but with tightly clinched teeth overpowers it and looks for another target. Such prompt action is bound to have some effect upon the minions of Kaja Mulie, and when a second fellow hugs the flowers they show signs of consternation. It is then the voice of their leader makes itself heard, urging them on with such zeal as men of. his religion alone. can show, while he dodges hither and thither in their rear, ever mindful to keep another between his precious form and Terry’s firearm. The rascals have found their second wind, and since comicbooks.com