The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 19: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 12 ‘“‘He never give up—you tell me about Kngitish buli- dog—Ruassian hoid on like bim all the same.” “Very good. Ishall have to do him bodily, injury, t plainly see. Both of us can’t have Doris, and one must drop ont. ‘Mat will be tie Russian bear.” “He mach big than sahib mandarin.’’ ‘Bah! the race is not always to the swift nor the bat- tie to the strong.” “ile have many friends in Bombay.” ye “Perhaps. I have imagined that he might be con- necicd with some secret cabal, bent upon arousing a gencral mutiny among the tribes of the border—for pure political purposes, of course. On the chessboard of the world England’s policy is always het by antagonism on the part of some nation—France frowns at us in Egypt, Germany growls because of the Transvaal, and Russia is ever on the alert, to push a step nearer the rich valleys of the northern India border. Oh! it is a won- derful game we play, with nations for knights and rooks and pawns. It is England against the world, apparently. What else, Pekoe Tay?” - a ‘‘Baron not alone.’ “That: sounds as though he’ might have 4..particula: companion in this little game he plays. Who is th: party, Pekoe Tay??? | “Him berry ‘dark man.’ comicbooks.com