The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 168: what you’re looking at

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162 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. believed he does not have to cross the whole of that floor, since Terry meets him halfway. Well, it does explain matters, and he heaves a positive sigh of relief at having the crudely told story of the landlord corroborated. he baron accompanied the party—that is bad enough news—but it is tempered by other facts, chief of which ig the letter she has hurriedly written him, in which she naively seems to take it for granted that he will follow her, and gives him directions as to where she will await his coming with Sandy, at the city on the Neva. Terry has been bemoaning the fact that the Scotch piper is in his company instead of by her side, but now if flashes over him that this very fact redounds to his advantage. He is no ‘‘rainbow chaser,”? but such signs as these bring him hope that Doris has found-her heart, and learned to look upon him with a deeper regard than she would a mere friend. Perhaps this may prove to be an ‘‘iri- descent dream,’’ like many of the good things of life. Still, Terry hugs it to his heart and builds many & chateau d’ Espagne upon the foundation. He carefully stows that letter away in the pocket nearest his heart, for future reference, and proceeds te fire another volley of questions at the maitre ad hotel, who is supposed to know the various. points upon which gek travelers seek information. byte comicloooks.conm