The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 258: what you’re looking at

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| 252 _ DPHE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. work of the last fifteen hours has won for him the heart of the maid he worships. They part from the professor, and securing a convey- ance ride into Konigsberg, where, after Smolensko: has quitted their company, Terry seeks a decent hotel. The excitement of the amazing voyage among the clouds has told upon Doris, and she desires a chance.to_ - recuperate eresproceeding further. - 3 - Besides, -it will. give Sandy and. her maid a chance : to arrive if all goes well. | While Doris is resting, Terry, who knows there is still much to be done, makes inquiries on all sides. ... , Of course he has been compelled to account for .their presence in the city, since the authorities are very strict with regard to such things, and rumors of a balloon having -descended”in the vicinity have floated about; but Terry finds his being a true-blue Briton. is of,im- mense advantage to him, since the consul’s influence is - at once brought to bear in order to save him from any ss unpleasant consequences. | | Old England knows well how to protect her sons.in the just exercise of. their rights, no matter. in what remote portion of the globe they may happen to wander —aery of distress brings the. Cross. of -St.- George: to Siam, China, or the islands of. the South Pacific, acroié burning deserts to Timbuctoo,..or even. through comnficls ht he