The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 310: what you’re looking at

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304 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. © -° ae making .as. hasty. a pursuit as the conditions ed allow. “He is-possessed of that dogged determination which is the ‘birthright. of his courtrymen, which carries them to the utmost parts of the earth, daunted by no peril or circumstance. Some.hours have elapsed ere the waede i is cleared away °: sufficiently to ‘allow their again moving forward. When they reach the city it is to find that their for- tunate fellow-travelers have been gone some time, while a.special train is made up to carry them on. It has now become a pursuit. When they reach the town from which the road to the mines runs, bitter disappointment is in store. .' Warren Evans is: gone—he has hired a diligence, or bought it, loaded some food and bjankets and arms aboard, and, accompanied by his fearless wife, the lank professor, and the fire-eating general. set out: for the far-distant gulch up among the crags, where are located the mines from. ° the pockets of which the early Spaniards wrested untold millions, without one-half exhausting the deposits of auriferous quartz. This is bad, and inquiry soon tells Terry here are- worse things in store, for he discovers that Senor En- rique and a party. of caballeros have~purchased all the best horses in town and also started for the mines. Realizing that’ there is to be music in the air, Terry, endeavors to influence his wife to remain behind ; but she pleads and protests to such purpose that in the end she * has her way, and Terry is obliged to give a grudging consent, mutch against his better “judgment. Already they are well armed, for Terry saw to this before leaving the States, knowing how difficult it would be to secure what he wanted once south of the Rio Grande. ‘His next step is to find a diligence that will hold them all. - Fortune favors him here. A stout vehicle, a bold driver, and they are off into. the mountain passes... How vividly it reminds them of comicbooks.com eo