The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 56: what you’re looking at

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50 THE GIRE FROM HONG-KONG. Terry is aghast at the discovery—he has never heard of such a cunningly devised trap outside of a penny Greadful, and it is hard to believe he is not dreaming. He rubs his eyes, but the evidence is still befgre him. Nothing can be too terrible for the Thug’s revenge—he could have giver points to those cold-blooded fiends who ran the old Spanish Inquisition, and a history of his doings in the land of the Hindoo would make “Fox’s Book of Martyrs” pale into utter insignificance. ® comicbooks.com