The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 205: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 199 Perhaps he does so in a state of desperation, believing the shadow of his doom is near at any rate and that his fate may be known should he some night quietly disappear. In London or New York when the police enter a house and make an arrest, the street is immediately jammed wilh a curious mob. How vastly different under the banner of the czar! In St. Petersburg if the officers are seen to enter a honse a deathly hush pervades the community—those who pass by avert their faces, while neighbors peep from behind closed blinds, dumb with a fearful dread. It might be as much as their lives are worth to even claim an acquaintance with the wretch who ts being hustled off by the grim gray-coated messengers of the secret pohce, wince three-fourtlis of the arrests made are for political offenses. \ Alas! poor Russia, how long, how long? bP ‘‘Now, my friends,’? says Smolensko, turning upon them eagerly, ‘‘I can speak to you, though I beg that our, conversation be carried out in low tones, for gou know the very walls here have ears. You already sur- mise that I have some connection with the patriots who have sworn that sooner or Jater Russia shail take her place among the nations of the world with her people . > as Tree of speech as those of your own beloved land. [ comicbooks.com