The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 72: what you’re looking at

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66 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. road train, and prepare for the leng trip by caravan through the ameer’s territory. The caravan is almost ready to start-when they arrive, ao well has Colonel Averill timed- their movements. Doris is given over in charge of the diplomatic gentle- man bound for Herat on some business connected with: that one distracting question, the friendship of the ameer for Albion. Once let Russian diplomacy-gain the ascendeney in Afghanistan, and the border passes will witness desperate scenes; but England has had leng warning and made sure to fortify those vulnerable points by means of whieh her Indian possessions might be invaded. The hour comes at last. Averill sees them depart, not without some emotion, for he has grown to care for the girl almost as though she were his own daughter, and finds it hard to reconcilo himself to the thought of allowing her to face the hard- ships and dangers as such a journey presents. In gecret he has had a confab with Terry Dovakhne, and the young man’s sturdy assurance has in a measure relieved his distress of mind. So the long caravan takes up its march through the mountain pass, over plateau and plain, heading for the capital of the ameer’s domains. ferry finds the situation changed. comicbooks.com