The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 228: what you’re looking at

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222 PHE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. | - ‘Phe driver and Smolensko occupy the seat in front, and converse in low tones. Suddenly the latter turns and utters a signal already agreed upon, whereupon Doris sinks down on the floor of the vehicle, while Terry arid. Pekoe Tay immediately spread out the ragged cover under which ‘they are to hide and thus represent the produce of the field. Meanwhile the wagon has been turned around so that» they appear to be heading for St. Petersburg. It is a clever trick of the sword-master, who knows full well carts going to St. Petersburg are sidam troubled—in this case as in others, it 1s not what enters theamouth that defiles, but that which. proceeds out of it. | Lucky indeed that keen ears have heard the sound of horses’ hoofs trampling far up the road. Presently a troop of mounted soldiers overtakes them. A few curious peeps are taken under the flaps of the wagon, but the weather is so wretched and their desire to get under shelter so positive, that the troopers do not trouble themselves to investigate further, but after a little pleasant badinage with the two peasants in the cart they scamper off. 4 When sure of their having departed, the driver again turns his vehicle and the old course is renewed. Terry. has just succeeded in replacing the seat and made his companion comfortable, with a rude wolf-skin robe: comicbooks.con