The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 298: what you’re looking at

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492 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. nation the good “mani ‘fails to appreciate your love and devotion as he should. I think I shall soon insist. upon your turning the whole current in the quarter where ‘it will do the most good. If Mr. Evans ‘isin need of a nurse I may decline ‘to let my promised wife force her attentions upon him- when he has taken means to supply himself.” “Terry, what can you mean °” “Surely you may guess.’ ~ “That designing widow ?” she gasps. “Exactly.” ~““She—has won him?” “Well, this message says they were married in. ‘church at four o’clock.” Doris i is strongly affected—the tears bedew her eyes. “Poor, poor papa,” she murmurs. “Ah! you do not appear to have a very favorable opin- ion of your new relative, Doris,” he remarks, hardly know- ing how to comfort. her under the circumstances. “Tt is not wholly that, but I think it a shame she should take advantage of his weakness—she must know that he disliked her when in his own mind.” ~ “But, Doris, the thing is done now—they are married, and we must make the best of it. What I want to know is the effec it will have on you.” “On me! . “Yes. Suppose your father, with the strong desire to reach those Mexican mines and defeat the plans of Senor Enrique still before him, persists in crossing over—she may, indeed doubtless will, accompany him. Would you still follow ?” “T should think it my duty,” calmly and deliberately.” “And of course I am bound that nothing shall separate us. You have promised to marry me. What does a matter of days or weeks signify?” Startled, she does not.reply, upon which the audacious wooer takes fresh courage. “If you will look at the matter in a reasonable light: you must confess that under the circumstances it were much better that the knot were tied before we left France,” “Qh, Terry, I could not think of it!” in confusion. — it comicbooks.com “