The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 208: what you’re looking at

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202 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG mind almost continually, for he always had great expee- tations of them. Perhaps there isa grain of reason in his suspicions, for 1 have discovered that a Mexican don, also interested in_ this wonderful property in Chihuah@ia, was in Hong-Kong at the time and has necnt scheming against my liberty and interests ever since. ‘“‘] tell you these, things because you were his true friend; but if I took hofrs 1 could never relate all that I have suffered while following him on this mad chase in whieh he is endeavoring to lose these imaginary pur- suers, and finally reach the object of his constant thought, those Mexican mines. : ‘‘You wonder why T did not have him detained —ah,, how he would hate me and declare I had betrayed him to his enemies. One experience wasenough. I believed it my duty to follow on wherever he went, until some change occurred. Perhaps the shadow on his mind would suddenly be raised, and there in a strange land he would welcome his child as his nurse—mine should be the hand to cool his fevered brow, mine the arms to hold his wasted form. Ah! monsieur, these months. have brought me much pain.” Terry has to wink very hard himself to prevent the moisture from appearing in his own eyes. This daughter’s noble devotion almost overwhelms him—he has loved her before because she is a sweet and comicbooks.com