The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 90: what you’re looking at

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$4 THE GIRL FROM HON ort ONG. periences a sense of gratitude that finds expression, in the’ fervent “Thank God you are unhar “med”? with which he takes’ her hands #/ “" : ° ‘The Voluble baron goes even, further, and after the fashion of his kind compliments the young woman upon tlie, extraordinary nerve she displayed; but, although she blushes under his words of praise, being a girl of uncommon good sense she undoubtedly appreciates the emotion of Terry over the successful outcoine of. her’ adventure more than the honied words of the diplomat, accustomed to framing sentences that are epitofnes of grace and eloquence. So the lone vehicle is turned about, and dragged back to camp in triumph, her escort shouting loud qJosannas over their proud victor y; ‘for these dark- skinned children ‘of thé mountains see no: necessity for repressing their natural feelings in time of success a battle. | There is no more sleep for them that night. The dead are buried with all honors, and those who have been stricken have théir wounds attended to. So dawn finds them. There is satisfaction in the thought that so much damage’ has been wrought upon, the enemy, - Terry has found a faint suspicion lodging in his brain, which grows when fanned by new facts, just as a spark Y ine ef fire will increase under favorable conditi- s, comicbooks.com