The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 202: what you’re looking at

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196 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. a fierce -desiré to strike a ringing: blow for ‘‘free Russia.”’ . ~fhe human brain is capable of grasping an amazing foumber of facts almost simultaneously, and these things ‘dawn upon Terry very much as an electric bolt illumines the earth in its zigzag flight from the clouds—one daz- zling flash and every feature of the landscape is made clear—then darkness. When a man is in the excited condition of Smolensko it is necessary that he be handled In a firm manner in order that something may come ant of his confusion. _ Donahue takes it upon himself to accomplish this. He is gifted with certain convincing powers that would serve him well as a lawyer—his coolness and tact never found a better chance to reduce chaos to order than ‘when brought into contact with this nervous Pole. ‘My friend,” he begins, “‘you must see that your actions have alarmed this young lady. We come to you in all honesty of purpose, and you meet us with vague declarations which we cannot understand. I am 4 British subject and as such you well know have no-sym- pathy with the methods of irowrulein force here. I can myself give a guess as to the cause of your emotion; but I beg to assure you our eyes are blind—we see nothing, know nothing save the mission that brought us here.. Least of all do we desire to be mixed up in any of the comicbooks.com