The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 77: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 71 all those lying there must have been true Mussulmans, ~@lse their graves would not have had their heads toward Mecea, and been marked as they were. A look from her wet eyes thanks him, and gives him cause for even deeper wonder concerning the nature of her strange mission. What manner of person does she seek, and why does a charming young woman venture so far from the haunts of civilized man? Their caution of course increases after this. The Philistines of the Afghan desert may have lain in wait for another caravan. Terry secretly hopes they will have a little brush with the land pirates—when a man has armed himself, and the woman he loves 1s near by, it 1s only buman on his part to wish far a chance to keep the rust from his weapons, and perhaps distinguish himself in her eyes. Theugh Terry has not been.a man of war himself, he comes of fighting stoek, and the blood of warriors runs in his veins. There is another who evinces a hankering for action. _ This is no other than Sandy Campbell, a son of his sire, who was at the relief of Lucknow in the great ‘mutiny. Sandy has many times aroused a furore in the camp of the caravan by a wild skirl on his beloved bagpipes. comicbooks.com