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"Not at all; but I knew that some obstacle or other would sooner or later arise on my route. Nothing, therefore, is lost. I have two days, which I have already gained, to sacrifice. A steamer leaves Calcutta for Hong Kong at noon, on the 25th. This is the 22nd, and we shall reach Calcutta in time." There was nothing to say to so confident a response.
He would be but too contented if one should be carried aloft; and if that one should succeed in effecting a landing on the summit of the cliff, it was of no importance what afterwards became of the aerial ship. Having completed that one voyage, it might make another on its own account either south to Calcutta or eastward to Hong Kong, if it liked China better.
The city is so far Europeanized as to be less typical of Chinese manners and customs than are cities further inland; but revelations come upon us with less of a shock when mingled, as they are here, with more civilized methods. The policemen of Hong Kong are Sikhs, whom the English government have imported from India for this special service. These officers are under excellent discipline.
"No," said little Resa, rather fearfully, "you know Kong Tolv never lets any mortal king pass the bridge of Skjelskör." "Kong Tolv! what, more stories about Kong Tolv!" laughed the merry maiden; "I never saw him; I wish I could see him, for then I might believe in thy tales, little one." "Hush, hush!
In the white frozen grass, for it was wintertime, knelt the wife of Kong Tolv, holding fast to her bosom the elfin babe, who shivered at every blast of wind, yet, shivering, seemed to smile. Hyldreda knelt, until the chapel-bells ceased at service-time. And then there came bursting from her lips the long-sealed prayers, the prayers of her childhood.
The French maid told the floor valet that although the father was American from New England somewheres and the girl born in California, accidentally as it were, she had lived in France all her life she's just eighteen never crossed the ocean before. Can you beat it? Until last month, and then they came from Hong Kong taking a trip round the world in good old style.
So stunned and dazed he was that he never really came to himself, found himself, until one day he awoke in Hong Kong. That was the beginning of the new life, if such it might be called.
But necessity impelled him, nevertheless, to renew his acquaintance with the worthy servant, as will be seen. All the detective's hopes and wishes were now centred on Hong Kong; for the steamer's stay at Singapore would be too brief to enable him to take any steps there. The arrest must be made at Hong Kong, or the robber would probably escape him for ever.
She's a big tramp with a valuable cargo from Hong Kong, with her rudder gone and her crank shaft busted." "It's high water at twelve thirty-seven," Jack Flaherty pleaded. "You'd better send me, Tiernan. The Bodega has more power than the Aphrodite." This was the truth and Dan Hicks knew it, but he was not to be beaten out of his share of the salvage by such flimsy argument.
She never returned home, however, but remained on the China station, for which she was best suited by her particular qualities. By the time the Iroquois, in turn, was ready to leave Hong Kong November 26th the northeast monsoon had made in full force, and dolorous were the prognostications to us by those who had had experience of butting against it in a northward passage.
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