The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 57: what you’re looking at

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THH GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. %1 CHAPTER V. PEKOE TAY ON GUARD. AYTER having made this interesting discovery, Terry has little difticulty in understanding why the other driver threw up his job—he evidently lacked the nerve to Carry out the commission intrusted to him. In his indignation Terry is tempted to tear the whole ‘diabolical mechanism from under the seat and thus ‘destroy its usefulness; but there appears to be some danger, lest in doing so an incautious move might set free the deadiy blades that lurk in the padded sides of the trap. . The very fact of being surrounded by such an array of weapons is enough to give one a shudder, and Terry has fost all pleasure in the journey. “For one 1 prefer to walk the balance of the way,” he says, and Pekoe Tay echoes the refrain, for even a stoical heathen Chinee experiences a repuguance against quit- ting this sphere by violence. To accomplish this little act without the knowledge or comicbooks.com