The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 259: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 263 trackless wilds of Benin in South Africa, Even her enemies admit how jealously the moter country looks after her own, and this sleepless cuie is the proud buast of ‘every Englishman, as well as the chief cause for their bold aggressiveness in penetrating to the utmost jurts of the earth. ‘The day passes without any news of the little boat which they eagerly await, and nightfall finds Doris very anxious. Terry visits the odd railway station to await the coming of the evening train from Vilna, but those whom they expect do not put in an appearance. - Tt is evident that they could not have left St. Peters- burg until that morning, and cannot reach the, German city under twenty-four hours, ‘Terry spends most of the evening in the company of the girl he loves. : ‘They chat upon many subjects, but one is tabooed as if by mutual consent, though eyes will speak the burn- ing feelings of the heart, and an electric thrill follow an accidental contact of hands. Hoping for good news in the morning Terry finally separates from the girl from Hong-Kong, though he temains up a long time after her departure, smoking a German pipe and meditating upon the remarkable events that have marked his journey from the British city of ‘Mong-Kong to this place. comicbooks.com