The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 49: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. AS belonging to some official dignitary to’ the humble palkee gharry such as is in common use. “Here is the carriage, but the driver he change,’’ remarks the observing Celestial. Terry grows suspicious at once. There is good reason why he should, with such dangers menacing him on all sides. “How is this—who arc you, and why do you stand in the place of the driver I engaged ?’’ he demands. The native Jehu is a shriveled-up specimen of a man with a gaunt frame, and a pair of beady eyes that appear to flash as might a lighted cheroot in the dark. He readily understands what all the row is about and condescends to explain, stating that the original driver had been suddenly taken with startling symptoms that gave rise-to a suspicion of the plague, and being com- pelled to abandon his post, found a substitute. | _ All of. which may of course be as true as the Koran, but Terry doubts it, his belief being that the first fellow has been summarily bounced because he lacked the grit to carry out some daring scheme in which he had a part. Will this new driver dare go further? Terry scans him critically, and mentally decides the fellow is a cross between a tiger and a cobra—he could be bold enough should the occasion wartant it, or else atrike at the heel like a viper. & comicbooks.com