The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 207: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 204 her what she wishes. Have you seen Warren Edwards —can she find him, when, where?’’ The-.Polish fencing-master, finding his attention thus brought to a focus, looks keenly at Doris. ‘fYou must have no secrets from me, then—joll me all —whom do you seek ?”’ he says. Terry holds his breath, realizing that the time has suddenly arrived when the curtain of mystery, by which . the identity of this fugitive has been surrounded, is about to be dropped. | He cannot see that Doris flinches in the. least, for while her manner shows eagerness, she still controls her voice so that it does not even tremble. “There shall be none. The person I seek is Warren Edwards Evans.”’ ‘¢Your honored father?”’ . “*Alas! yes, reported dead in Hong-Kong and London, but for purposes of his own. The vast enterprises in which he was engaged unsettled his reason. He began to indulge in_ hallucinations, and grow suspicious of every one, even his own daughter. Then came his flignt from home and my pursuit. In Singapore I found him, rational on most subjects, but determined to outwit certain rogues who he declared had banded together to secure his vast estate, and in particular his beloved. mines.in- Mexico. These properties seemed to be on his comicbooks.com