The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 164: what you’re looking at

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158 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. | / as though a hand clutching a ‘knife may be projected toward his back at any minute, until he is beyond the region dominated by the Mussulman. The closer they draw to the caravansary of M. Pre- vost the louder his heart thumps with anxiety. Something seems to warn him of evil—that while the treacherous Kaja Mulie entertained him with this attrac tive bait so as to insure his absence from the hotel, Don Enrique has been getting in some of his particularly fine work, | As for the baron—hang the baron! the very thought. of him gives Terry a creeping sensation—even at this: moment he may be rescuing Doris from some dreadful danger, to be rewarded with a clasp of her arms about his neck, and the bestowal of her love for all time. The thought makes a pretty sick Briton, and he was never in all his life so glad to see a building as the hotel of M. Brevosts All seems quiet enough—the mn has not burned to the ground during his absence, nor been attacked by 4 force of brigands. . Nevertheless Terry confesses to a positive touch of “stage fright,’’ trembling as he makes inquiry concern ing Doris, and when the first thing he hears is that she has gone out, his heart seems to stand still with the con- sciousness of some terrible impending disaster. =: ® comicloooks.conm