The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 340: what you’re looking at

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384 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. so nothing can be done to alleviate her physical distress unless—Terry supposes there must be water in the dili- gence, though it is risking one’s life to crawl along the canyon to the stranded vehicle in order to procure it. If it were Doris who. moaned for it he would také a risk three times as great. The conviction rather shames him, and as a consequence he has a little dialogue with the driver, who gives him a few points that may be of value. Then Terry crawls over the barrier and makes in the direction where, as he remembers, the diligence is lo- cated. There is danger in his mission, but he is even ready to meet it rather than longer hear the wretched moans of the French lady. Warren Evans has pail] little er no attention to his wife, and one does not need to be philosopher or a prophet to realize that the courting has all been done on her side. However, this is just what a woman might expect when she marries a man whose mind is unsound, and all the rest of her natural life she may pay the penalty in the shape of neglect. There is not always a chivalrous cavalier handy, who will risk his life in order to procure her a drink; as Terry is now doing. He has made no mistake regarding the location of the vehicle, and reaches it without any trouble. The points given by the driver are valuable, and he devotes his time to searching for the demijohn of water carried strapped in the rear. This he has just found, and released from the rope that holds it in position when some sound close to his elbow causes him to be on the alert. A low voice utters some Mexican words, which, of course, are Greek to the British adventurer, They might as. well have been Hebrew or Sanscrit for all he could understand what was meant. Nevertheless Terry is quite positive upon one point— the person who addresses him is an enemy. 2 Naturally the man will expect'an answer of some sort, and' not receiving it his suspicions will be immediately aroused. comicloooks.conm