The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 158: what you’re looking at

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

‘162 = PEEW-GIRL FROM HONG-KONC their‘eyex are glued’ in horror upon: the fearful shape ‘fastened ‘under the left arm of the red piper. . me 4 Sandy, like all others: of -his. kind,: finds it next to “impossible to keep still:when playing.. His feet have’ been keeping: time, and. now, when he has worked ‘him- self up to-fever heat, he commerices to advance. a That is the last straw on the eamel’s back. - The men have Keen‘frozen with horror before, ard now they: ate ‘electrified as though in contact with a galvanic battery at seeing the gaunt piper. and the uncanny shouting ‘little god. under his left arm advancing upon them. ~ - They whirl as to a man,-and fairly tumble over each _ other in their wild eagerness to-give this mad necromni- cer all the room he wants. | . * ''§o fearful are they lest some portion of their anatomy “may by accident come in contact with this demon that . they strain every muscle in the endeavor to escape. © ‘ A ‘dre d lest ‘he may exert some strange spell over ‘ them urges each man to do his best. 3 Iti isa brave scene, and Terry Donahue laughs until ‘the tears:run down his cheeks and he is weak hie éxhaustion. ot @ ane ; All the while there’can be heard a high shrijl voice;: filled’ with the most terrible ‘rage, endeavoring to arge the demoralized nadentants ‘on to arenewal of the combat; but Kaja Mulie might as * well ‘shout to the walls of the comicbooks.com