The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 184: what you’re looking at

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178 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. CHAPTER-XVIII. q HOW CHE BARON WAS LEFT IN THE LURCH. THEN and there Terry resolves to crush this weakness, and show himself a man. ‘Tt-may yet:all-come out right. Only when in her magical presence does this weakuess overwhelm him. In order the ‘better to forget ‘his own ‘trouble, ‘he endeavors to take a deeper interest m that of Doris, ander the plea of » venerable .chestnut ‘that at least ihe ‘may be a brother ’to her. Thus he-speedily learns sufficient to arouse ‘his atten- tion, and excite new theories. se Doris and her party ‘have ‘been: ‘St. Petersburg ‘more than two aays now, and ‘thanks ‘to the ‘baron’s assistance she has set the secret machinery of the ‘police at work with a view to undeng out whether the party whem she seeks has arrived at the Russian metrapsiis. Russia admits of superiority in this line to no country on earth save possibly France. . Her necessities demand the utmost vigilance on the part of .> detective system, since there is always’ ait comicbooks.com