The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 325: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 319 best efforts, when her hysterics take on a new form, and she sobs. . Luckily no one is hurt, and behind the stone breast- works the little band grimly awaits the expected assault, determined to give a good account of Mexican valor, American grit and British pluck. They have not long to wait. Senor Enrique is furious at having his neatly arranged plans so roughly disturbed by the contretemps that has occurred, and presently they can hear his rough voice whooping it up lively as he orders a general assault all along the line. © ] CHAPTER XXXVILI. HEROIC MEASURES NECESSARY. Of course this means serious business—it means that presently the whole force of caballeros will be on the move, seeking some vulnerable point in their defense— that they will come creeping up the canyon, taking ad- vantage of the darkness and every outlying rock, while those upon the height may be expected to drop down in some way or other. One thing pleases them, since the shower of stones necessarily ceases when tite assailants are ordered to advance. If it were daylight they could count on making their shots. tell—as it is, much gunpowder must be wasted in the endeavor to bag a few birds. There is no play about this business, and now that the issue has been squarely drawn, it is a fight to the death. Senor Enrique knows what he wants-—he has gone half way around the world and endured privations without a murmur in order to get it, so that when fortune brings the spoils to his very door he would be foolish not to put ont his hand and pluck the tempting fruit. . There is a brief interval of almost deadly silence, dur- ing which those behind the barricade realize that. a con- centration is taking place, their enemies advancing ‘from comicls oks.com