The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 92: what you’re looking at

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86 THE: GIRE. FROM HONGKONG. which in the days of great, Alexander was among the foremost: nations of the. earth, enpable of vieing with the Greeks and Romana. for supremacy. Such a short halt is made in Herat that there is no time given any of them to get inte trouble. A caravan is on the eve of starting—they will have superior advantages now, amd cam even have an oppor- tunity to call upon the railroad for assistance, smee the enterprise of British and Russian influence has opened up a part of the eountry. Still, when a nation has slumbered for centuries, and its people are content to live as their remote ancestors did, it is a most. difficult task to influences thena, so that for ages to come the same conditions are likely to pre- vail from Cabul to Herat and Teheran. | - Of the journey to the Persian capital we meed say littla or nothing. It. ig monotonous, bué owing to the size of the com- pany, perhaps also on account of the better order exist- ing in the domains of the shah, they are undisturbed, though conscious of hostile troops being near the camp on several occasions. Terry will never forget that journey. He and the baron vie with each ether im the endeavor to anticipate the slightest. wish of Doris, and such is their ardor that the young girl sometimes finds if neces- comiclooks.com