The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 199: what you’re looking at

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THE GARL FROM HONG-EONG. —__—193 tity by. various little recollections connected with his . visit at the house.in Hong-Kong, where a dozen servants sprang to do the bidding of an imperious little queen. _“Yes, yes, [ know now you are Voris, but your com- ing has completely unnerved me,’’ he admits, at last appearing to see her extended. hand, and when she touches his palm Doris is surprised to find it quivering like an aspen leaf. | Again the sword master, the man supposed to be with- out fear, glances over his shoulder. “Well, let them come. A man can die but once, and when that time arrives it is useless to try and cheat fate,’’ he mutters. _ ~ Is he on the verge of insanity? Doris, not knowing what to make of such amazing actions, gazes at him in blank surprise, even forgetting in that moment the eagerness with which she has pursued her mission. I¢ is her first visit to Holy Russia, so that. she knows next to nothing about the amazing undercurrents that wreck men’s lives there, frequently tearing the husband and father from the bosom of his family and sending. him to the distant salt mines of Siberia for life.. There fg only one Russia, thank God, and all-men whg love liberty and progress must earnestly hope that at some day in the 1 not distant future the scales will drop from the eyes of those i in whese hands authority is placed, so that. more comicbooks.com