The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 46: what you’re looking at

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7 THR GIRL FROM HONG- KONG: a Ve go to Teheran ro: doubt, % mutters.: Terry, men: tally. wondering whether such a thing will have any effect : forgood or evil upon his fortunes. ° Hoe waits until the dark mdn -called Baja. Mulie has _again withdrawn as quietly as he entered, and Doris ‘returnéd to the chattering throng, when’ he intercepts Sandy in thé act of hastening off. he / Ts it Persia, Sandy?”” he asks. -* «Nae doot, nae doot. At least we leave when the 'braw colonel: does on the morrow, bound mort 1’? « . “And this ‘messenger—this courier of yours, is he:to ‘pe trusted not to lead you into a trap??? == “Oh, ay, Kaja Mulie is a mrickle tre man, ‘we ‘all believe, though for my part it ‘goes 4gainst- the graiti-to “put full trust in a Musselman at’ sucha time,’ when: a holy war is’ brewing. I hope ye have’. no reagon “to ‘believe him a rascal, sir?” he sth ale a. *“Not at all; only, like yourself, I- have an itisti#ctive distrust for a brown skin, though ready to stake my life on the steady reliance of one who carriés a. yellew face. Let it pass, Sandy; only it is well, you know, when such a precious charge 1s in your keep, to be watchful of every ‘one, ’ whether Englishman,’ Russian. or Hindoo, until his déeds prove him worthy of:trust.’’ ‘Richt you are, sir, and I mean to follow out that plan. But will ye go alang wi’ us?’ comicbooks.com