The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 79: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE GIRL- FROM: HONG-KONG,- 5 N feathers encircled the wagon trains - crossing to the golden sands of California before the. era of railroads— on the burning sands-of Egypt ov Algeria, where’the true. Bedouins of the desert: swoop remorselessly down-upon their prey—everywhere upon the earth, in recent or remote times, this panorama, as ancient as the very hills, has been repeated, yet never grows old. - Terry is on his feet instantly. : we He has kept himself prepared, and knows just where to lay a hand.on his weapons even in the horrible dark- ness that exists within the hide tent. Z _ = Out he dashes, ready to do his Part) in the play about to be enacted. In one hand he carries a modern Winchester rifle, and with its magazine charged feels equal to anything that may be brought before him. > @ Tha reality is twofold more startling than anything he has imagined, and Terry is not apt to soon forget tha stirring events of that night of nights. As every-man. has been weil drilled in the part he'is expected to -perform, should a night attack be made apon the caravan, there is very little confusion within “the camp,-though considerable bustle. : Fires that have smoldered ‘suddenly flash into new life, and light ap the weird scene, with - its strange vehicles and even more remarkable: men. comicbooks.com