The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 86: what you’re looking at

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

80... THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. with: which to belabior ‘some’ wretch, who persiats ‘in blocking his passage, over the head. _ Perhaps a Win- chester may not have been fashioned for thi purpose, ‘Dut it seems to stand the strain admirably. | The vehicle has been dragged by hand, since there has been no opportunity’ to fasten horses to it in the excitement of battle. | : Some of the Bedouins have élung to the shafts and continue to tug. away in a@ manner that amazes Terry, who cannot imagine just why they should so especially desire to capture this especial vehicle. an A suspicion has flashed into his mind that there may attar all be a method in their madness—they act as though under the positive belief that the covered wagon contains a treasure of some sort. | Later on, when reviewing the matter, Terry makes more than one little discovery that tells him this attack on the caravan may be no accident, but part of a deep design to secure the person of Doris. ‘His progress is so hindered that it falls far short of what he might desire, and seeing this he groans ‘in af epithe ® -At..this rate he will never be able to overtake the rascals who are running away with the wagon—in vain he leads his little company against the sullen foe—they an ie t%e give way ‘only te again ‘Présent a ‘setried ‘front againat