The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 313: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HON G-KONG. 309 Sandy and Pekoe Tay cling to the railing of the stage and hold their breath with each dip of their lurching vessel, exhibiting many of the symptoms of thoroughly seasick passengers. The Highland piper lays it all to the fact that he has allowed his. flowing red whiskers to be taken off. “Aweel, aweel,” he confides to the sympathetic Mon- golian, between slides, as it were, “I knew it would be a sair job when they robbed me o’ my bonny hair. It will be a lang time before I can induce mair to grow. Man, they weel-nigh skinned me, ye ken.” Occasionally, when the riding is temporarily smooth, Terry will thrust his, head out of the window and en- deavor to scan the route ahead, but his success 1s far from flattering. However, he gives the driver to understand what he desires, and that enterprising Jehu, upon reaching a cer- tain point, draws in his perspiring, heaving horses with a flourish that would do credit to the most famous handler of the reins upon the old California stage routes. With a few “carajos” as pepper and salt seasoning, he proceeds to inform Terry that he will give the animals a few minutes’ breath:ng spell, and that meanwhile the ‘gentleman can be utilizing the occasion and his field- glasses by clambering up an adjacent rock, from whence he will have a bird’s-eye view of considerable country im advance. : This just suits our Terry, and as the rock does not present any serious difficulties in the way of climbing, and Doris expresses a desire to join him, he lends her his assistance, and both are soon upon the summit. The view is certainly superb, and under other circum- stances they might thoroughly enjoy taking in the various points of interest. = ~ As their halt is limited, and it may be an object to discover those whe are in the advance, Terry devotes his energies toward the accomplishment of this task. Success does not come—at least, the best he does is to believe he catches a glimpse of a‘ horseman just flashing behind a ragged pile of rocks a couple of miles ahead. Toward that quarter both Doris and himself bend many comicbooks.com