The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 165: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 169 . CHAPTER XVI. = ‘“fHOUGH LOST TO SIGHT, TO MEMORY DEAR.”’ FortuNateELY Donahue does not fly off his head upon - receiving the intelligence that possibly his worst fears have been realized—he is not built that way, and im- pending peril simply has the effect of arousing the man to grasp the situation with a master hand, just as the intense heat and sudden plunge into a cold bath gives the coveted temper to fine steel. His first thought is a trap of some sort— possibly not unlike that which drew him to the Teheran house, and into cenflict with these desperate scourings of the city whom Sandy’s “‘screech-god”’ scattered. Knowing that his best move is to seek for information at the fountain head, he speedily faces M. Prevost, the urbane proprietor, who readily discovers that in spite of Terry’s apparent coolness, he has a madman with whom to deal; so that he must be very circumspect with regard to :his replies. Terry is no lawyer, but he immediately puts the Gout comiclooks.com