The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 275: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 269 There can bo only one explanation ‘of his action— Sandy bears news. So they await his coming on the pavement just in front of the palatial hotel. No sooner has the brawny Scot come within respecta- ble hearing distance than he sots up a bawl such as a Switz mountaineer might use in whooping it up to # friend far across oné of those marvelous valleys up in the Alps. :.;. e ‘“‘T’ve seen him, Mees Doris; what’s mair, he’s up to. his old tricks, ye ken. ~The weedow’s got him alang in tow, and he looking as braw as when. he coorted your mither.”’ = ae By the time he finishes Sandy has come up with them, and such is the» impetuosity of his advanee that Terry feels it incumbent upon himself to toss out an arm and bring the lumbering Scot toa halt. When these great bodies:get a move on them it is difficult to bring. their. locomotion to a stop.. Doris faces her attendant. -s-,Under the calm gaze with which she searches his face Sandy.cools down, and casts. an eye of apprehension in the -direction of the approaching gendarme, who circles. warily around as though anxious to cover all points of eseape until more of his ilk arrive to assist bim-in making a-capture. comicbooks.com