The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 55: what you’re looking at

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

THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. ; 1d. . Pekoe-Tay: actually. chuckles, wh IA bine ‘‘Some other day,’’ he says gayly. . “Well,” remarks Terry, with vehemence “iba appears that ‘when one has. offended the powers that. be. in.the realm of Thuggism, eternal vigilance is the price of safety. These fellows mean business, sure enough. Now what do you suppose this thing meant—in what way. were we.to be sacrificed?’ | — “Pekoe. ‘Tay soon find. him out.”’ | Whereupon the Chinaman - begins a hasty search with fingers and keen eyes. A satisfied grunt Speedily declares that his labor has not been, in vain. _ “Mandarin Terry, look here,”’ he says. An investigation reveals a most amazing condition of affairs.;,.The black box of the innocent-looxeng palkee gharry:is a death-trap in which perhaps more than one enemy of.the terrible secret society has met his fate. It is in truth an armory—a dozen or more terrible steel blades being cunningly hidden in recesses where they would never be discovered by an eye not sharpened by suspicion, and with a clew to their presence., These blades, at a certain second indicated, by the clockwork machinery, will be suddenly forced forward by the pow- _erful springs that operate them, and any unfortunate in - the vehicle must. be. pierced through and through. b comicbooks.com