The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 88: what you’re looking at

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\ 82 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. the pusher Hongets his labor:of Tove and proceeds te per- form a series of amazing gymnastics, such as can never be duplicated out of a battle. oS Of course the ‘progress of the vehicle is delayed by this. accident, but not enough to give Terry much aa of overtaking it. If he can only duplicate this shot, and cut down one of those in the shafts, his end may be attained. Unfortunately they are out of his reach, as the body of the vehicle shields them. . It is a cruel condition, and one which he seems abse- lutely powerless to alter. Often when we believe everything to be lost there is some hidden force at marie which brings about a change in the condition of affairs as marvelous as it is sudden. Terry discovers,something that rivets his attention. Fhe fleeing vehicle no longer continues to leave him in the lurch, and at first he is Inclined to believe this is caused by some astonishing progress which he is mak-. ings, wntil the fact that the wheels have ceased to revolve, flashes over his comprehension. Can the two dusky devils who drag at the shafts have stopped, intending to enter the vehicle and carry out some fiendish design of murder? This horrid thought has hardly fastened Upon . Ais brain than he discovers his error. comicbooks.com