The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 295: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG.. 220° . “This is Wednesday. Here is La’ Champagne of the: French line advertised to sail on Saturday, the 8th, from: Havre. He may wait for her, since there will be no time saved in crossing the Channel to Southampton or Liver- pool, for the White Star steamer goes to-day. However, he. is not in a rushing hurry, or else does not know that the slow Dutch steamer Maasdam leaves Rotterdam to- © day and will touch at Boulogne to-morrow. At any rate, Havre seems to be his choice.” All of-which reasoning agrees with her ideas to the dot. Breakfast done, Terry sees Sandy and Pekoe Tay to give a few orders connected with their expected cruise across the Atlantic. 24 When he enters the little parlor he finds Doris there. ~ They are apt to be interrupted at any time, but a bold wooer is not to be deterred by such a trifle. Terry may be a bit slow to action—Engfishmen have usually been accused of some obtuseness in that direction—but once started, he is..very much like an avalanche among the Alps—nothing can stop him. The time for dilatory tactics has gone past. So in his usual manly way he tells the old, old story that never loses its charm, and Doris confesses that his love is reciprocated. She is frank as ever, once her confusion is mastered, and does not hesitate to tell him how she must have cared for him long before ready to acknowledge the fact to herself. _. “The first glimpse I had of the truth was that day in Bombay when I saw you take the part of a wretched boy against his persecutors. Still, you remember, the baron was very fascinating and dreadfully persistent. Then, ‘again, I was foolishly determined that one American girl at least would refuse an Englishman. You know of old our statesmen warned us to beware of all foreign en- tangling alliances. “Then came the long caravan trip and the dreadful night battle. During those days I forced myself to search my-heart and discover who had possession—and, Terry, I-found out. _ “When you even risked your life as a toric eooke com