The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 22: what you’re looking at

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15 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. - CHAPTER II. DORIS. - Terry has eyes for only the two seated: in the strange vehicle so common to India, for ‘his little. world lives and moves and has ite being around the ‘bright star at whose shrine he worships. <i a . . ““She' seems agitated, as though something has hap- pened out of the usual. ‘Perhaps it ‘is because she has discovered my presence; but I’m afraid such an event. would cause only the faintest ripple of interest, for as yet I have not succeeded in doing much toward storm: ing the citadel of her heart. More likely she has learned something concerning the object of her travels; or it may be that determined baron with his mysterious ally has something to do with it. Confound him, anyway! I-wonder who the gentleman with her may be—he has the apptarance of.an officer?”’ - . ~“Qolonel Averill,”’ says the sad voiceof Pekoe Tay; and Terry realizes that again he has done his thinking out loud. At the same instant the man from. London feels a warm comicbooks.com