The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 159: what you’re looking at

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. THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 153 Shab’s palace if he. expects these trembling retainers to fecover their nerve. = ° | Faster go Sandy’s nimble-fingers, and the unearthly screeching and whanging increase at a perceptible pace. The experienced piper seems to have the power to hurl his weird music after the retreating foe, and send each skirl upon the heels of those who run, so that they almost expect to feel a pair of grisly arms thrust out to Stay their mad flight. . Pekoe Tay has been cheated of his part in the enter- tainment. He stands there and thrusts again and again at an imaginary enemy, just within reach of his wavy kriss, which target he doubtless punctures with each and every stab. . The court is theirs, since not a foe in a condition to do them-injury remains in sight. . Terry is far from satisfied—he experiences a deep- Seated curiosity to learn the true inwardness of this affair —whether it-has been engineered wholly by Kaja Mune and Don Enrique, or if the baron has had a finger in the -pie—also what they intended doing with him— ‘murder him in cold blood or simply maim hiin so that he must be an object of loathing in the sight of others, and especially with Doris?. - When he-suryeys the-field and sees the wounded ha ‘wonders whether one of them might not be induced ay comicbooks.com