The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 206: what you’re looking at

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200 * THH GIRL FROM: HONG-KONG. ‘take‘my life'in my hand when I confess-this to you; “but: having been warned, I know my doom is already written on the wall unless [ elude the hounds, This place is watched, and [ was informed that the. signal. for a descent would be the coming of a woman. Hence, -you- can understand my emotion at seeing. Mile. Evans. Perhaps they meant it so, and you may have unwittfhgly been the cause of the soldiers surrounding my house. .Soon will we ‘see. I have prepared for flignt. : Look, ‘here ig a small opening—you can see those who practice yonder with the foils. Count them—six-in all, and five are in the ‘pay: of the government, a count, a captain, two colonelsand a general. Alas! poor Ivan, my friend, 4s in poor company if the bolt.falls now. I fear-he will soon be on the road.”’ . Donahue believes they have heard quite enough of the sword-master Nihilist’s woes and hopes. It is time some attention were paid to their own case. Acting under this thought, and perhaps urged: on by‘a pressure-of his arm and an appealing look from the now unveiled Doris, Terry: makes an -abrupt dash and grasps’ the situation. - ‘Monsieur, we sympathize with you in your troubles,- ‘but consider the weary months, the fearful. journey’ endured by, and the terrible anxiety of this lady, and-tell comicbooks.com