The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 190: what you’re looking at

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184 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. Father -startling: to come face to face with..that.same individual under the roof that shelters the object of hig , adoration, and to realize that distance and difficulties” -present no-barriers that an Anglo-Saxon’s Bone cannot scale. ; Other tactios will have to be employed” in order to , accomplish the result he has in view; though it is with great reluctance that .a high-born_ Russian descends to ignoble means, his preference being to eut the Gordian knot with his sword. . 7 Meanwhile Terry has shot down the ‘steps and into the | waiting drosky, giving the order. to his driver - and promising double fare for speed. In Russia as elsewhere a Idou will risk the safety, of ‘his vehicle, not to mention the neck of his fare, for ‘such an inducement, so that. they rattle along the streetg of the northern Babylon in a manner that brings out more than one warning from police officers; but with roubles - dancing before his enamored eyes, the isvostchik. heeds nothing, and sets Terry down at his destination in an incredibly short time. . N\ | “Wait half an hour and the same pay again,”? saya. that very energetic individual, tossing him a gold napo- leon, which coin just now is in high favor throughout. Russia on acount of the French alliance. F Donahue goes through the formalities, finds. Pekog comicbooks.com