The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 68: what you’re looking at

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G2 THE GIRE FROM HONG-RONG. time when these two great powers will meet again in the clash and turmoil of battle, and India must be the stake for which the mighty armies play. This being the case, it is only natural for the general feeting to be intensely anti-Russian, and the officers of the czar, while treated with courtesy, do not find them- selves as welcome as Frenchmen, Italians or Americans may be. Terry builds some of his castles In Spain apon this fact—he hopes Doris has become in a measure per- meated with this intuitive distrust of everything Rus- sian, and that while she may treat the baron with the _ respect due his rank, it will go no further. True, the baron has been regarded as a fady-killer, and strongly imbued with the doctrine that whatever a Rassian wants that he mast have, though the whele world be opposed to him. _ Against this Terry places the good sound common sense which he believes the girl possesses to an unusual degree—and his own right arm. ‘Their journey north is not that of the lightning express—there are no canmen-ball trains, or ‘Flying Dutchman,” on India railroads. The carriages. are aimost entirely patterned after the English type, which suits the natives, with their caste prejudices, te a dot. comicbooks.com