The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 183: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 177 find a ¢ghance to carry out one of his bold schemes, and the opportunity to defend you be given to another.”’ **Did that really cause you uneasiness?’ she asks, smiling. | ‘*More than I can express,” with a burning look that again causes a wave of color..to flash athwart her lovely face,and arouses her to a consciousness of the new danger hovering near.. So she immediately saritolnes the conversation on to another track, and Terry finds himself listening to an account of her trip across the Caspian, and the rough country: beyond, interested in the many little adventurers that befell the company. of world-wanderers ‘because she was in their charge, and yet wrestling with a dreadful fear that has again arisen to haunt him. He cannot but notice how she delicately yet firmly refuses to let him reveal the burning love that almost unmans him, and the specter of the Apollo. baron rises out of the grave to which he long ago consigned him—a specter that will not down. —_ . Has the Russian won her—would that account for her s hd e % desire to save him pain? comicbooks.com