The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 170: what you’re looking at

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ace THE GIRL vEOM HON G-RONG: He i 18 therefore quite content to serve under Terry’ 3 colors until such time as he again joins his mistress. As for Pekoe Tay he says nothing—it is all Greek to that son of the Celestial Kingdom whether they go or stay, since he takes things with the philosophy of .a fatalist and a stoic, ready to accept the wal with the good. ; Having pumped the house steward quite. dry, Terry finds himself in a condition to figure out his immediate future so far as such a thing is possible in this strange jJand of the shah. : | | He does not seek’ his room antil midnight, ‘and then sits at his open window looking at the northern stars, and thinking of Doris, upon whom their gentle silver radiance is also descending. Will the time not soon be at hand when distant friends may be enabled to com- municate with one another through the medium of these same heavens upon which messages can be written go as to be visible hundreds of miles away? This Terry ponders, his mind filled with thoughts: of the one beloved. .. Teheran is far from quiet, but little he heeds the sounds, pleasant: or otherwise, that assail him. Hours must pass; but it is a long lane that has no turning, and -at last the time will come when he shall leave the Persian capital behind—when Russia will be his geal, and. Doris comicbooks.com