The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 321: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRE FROM HONG-KONG. 35 Tay, for in imagination he can already hear the clamor of battle, and the murderous sing of bullets clipping the air close to their heads. | At least the general with the cork leg has proved that he has some grit in him, for he continues to bellow out orders to an imaginary army, no doubt directing them to surround the camp and show no mercy to the rogues found loitering near. With a numerous folfowing the general would doubtless prove quite a fire-eater. It is the long-legged Yankee professor, however, who had sprung forward and throws himself upon the stranger as he sprawis near the fire—the man who calts himself a coward who thus corrals the first enemy of the campaign. Meanwhile, other things are happening, not connected with the immediate Hfe of the camp, and yet having a decided bearing upon the general result. Upon the sides of the twin bluffs that rise on either hand signs of life may be detected; here and there a man’s head projects, while guns are waved, ahd hoarse voices echo backward and torward. Senor Enrique and his braves are awaking to action. At any moment, should the humor seize upon them, ‘the rattle of their firearms may drown all other disturb- ances. It is a very tively camp that Terry and his followers burst upon this night in May. The clamor rises higher, for even the newcomers have taken part in it, seeking to make the valorous general understand they are friends and not foes. Doris thinks onty of her father, and rushes imme- diately at the old gentleman, who stands there transfixed with awe at seeing his daughter whom he believed ten thousand miles away here in this Mexican canyon camp. A pair of arms are thrown about his neck, and he finds himself caught in a hug that no man in his senses would object to. _’Fhen comes madam, who has as yet failed to recog- nize Doris—her jealousy is aroused at seeing her lord and master of three weeks thus caught ih the embrace of another. She immediately lays hold of Terry’s wife and, in the delirium of her mental distress, would .dodhesn