The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 314: what you’re looking at

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$08 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. eager, scrutinizing giiaces, without avail, and, while he still: has lingerifig doubts, Terry is fain to confess. that- what hé saw may have. been some vulture settling down to a. feast among those points of rock. The tuneful melody of Carajo’s voice breaks in upon their survey, and gives warning” that the: horses have recovered their wind. _. As time is a great factor in this. case, they hasten to. descend from their eyrie and stow themselves away once more inside the coach. - Then the forward movement commences again. : . The breathing spell has apparently put new life and vim into the horses, if one can judge by their tremen- dous burst of speed.-- At times they almost appear to be sailing through space. _ Doris nestles down against the side of the man upon whom her trust is stayed, as though she feels the utmost confidence in his ability to keep her from all bodily harm. Terry does not partake of this belief himself, since he is quite aware that should there be a slip, his arm, upon which- she depends so much, will be as useless as a straw to save her. _ Time -passes. ° . Even these steel-muscled horses begin to grow weary, and it requires a constant cracking of the whip, together ‘with a stream of “carajos” to keep them on the jump. The day, too, shows signs of waning. Terry has taken several observations, but is baffled by a peculiar condition of the atmosphere which has arisen: A haze has settled down over the mountains, througlr which it is impossible to see for-more than -a few hun-' dred feet in any direction.. Doris declares they are up among the clouds, and. this supposition may not bé as much amiss as it’ seems at first. At-any rate, it becomes very exident that: they are. nearing .a crisis in their tumultuous advance, and that: a change is imminent. The fog thickens until it seems almost dense enough to. be cut with a knife. As their passage is sO fraught with | danger: ‘Ferry ' Goliicbooks.corn