The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 308: what you’re looking at

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302 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. victims, waiting for the proper time to come when the blow may be struck. Apparently ignorant of the shadows gathering about him, Warren Evans proceeds to carry out the diplomatic’ business that has taken him to the Mexican capital, seek- img aidiences with prominent men, even President Diaz himself, for there is a flaw in his title which he is bent on removing. Once this has been accomplished, he will positively control the richest mines in Mexico, once worked by the Spniards, who shipped millions across the - sea, much of which fell into the hands of the bold. bucca- — neers who haunted the Spanish Main in quest of prey. Dori Enrique allows him to conclude all his arrange- ments, knowing that in the fullness of time his hour will arrive, ; Everything comes to him who- waits. And presently Terry discovers that the old gentleman is preparing to leave the City of Mexico. ‘There can be no doubt but what he means to carry out his original intention and visit the mines. Even to the ordinary traveler there is danger in pene- trating among the defiles of those lofty mountains. Ban- dits are almost as bold in some parts of Mexico,as in Italy or Greece, only instead of holding tourists for a ransom their favorite method is plain downright robbery, some- times; upon the principle that dead men tell no tales. Terry takes it for granted that when the mine owner starts upon his journey far beyond the misty Sierra. Madre Mountains, he will have engaged a sturdy company of men to guard against the dangers that lurk in the way. To his chagrin, when Warren Evans and his French bride leave the city by train, they are only accompanied by two men. One of these is a white-haired Mexican general, who limps-around with a wooden leg, but is as bombastic and ferocious-a fire-eater as ever served under the flag of the republic. He has quite won the good- will of the mine owner, and as for the lady, she sees in General Manuel Lopez a gentleman who can appreciate beauty whenever chance brings him in contact with it, from which it can be readily understood that the old comicbooks.com