The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 210: what you’re looking at

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204 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. The Polish conspirator may have been driven into z corner where he can only:show his teeth in defiance to ‘the.enemy, but he hag not: lost the sense of chivalry which all those of his unfortunate nation have eve1 entertained toward the charmiug personality. of youth and beauty. : “Ah! Miss Evans, you do not fully comprehend what it is-vou ask. Remember, in endeavoring to serve your father I was forced to adopt severe measures. It chanced that in St. Petersburg was one high in the councils of our ‘order. The police had Jéarned of. his presence and a cunning trap was laid. Every. ordinary avenue of escape was cut off, and they believed, these eruel minions of royalty, that all fhey.had to do was to make a house to house canvass in the suspected quarter in order to unearth him. ' “Under such conditions. there was but one way: to save our beloved Vladimir—he must leave Russia by the underground route. You do not know what that means —not so much.a tunnel as a secret way of escaping over the border into Germany. . “*When your father pressed. me to devise some scheme: whereby he could give these devilish pursuers the. slip 1 bethought me of Valdimir, and with his full and free consent Warren Evans accompanied him in his. flight. First of all he was compelled to take the oath never té comicbooks.com