The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 211: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 205 roveiil anything he might see or hear, and became for the time being a full-fledged Nihilist.” - ‘“‘Oh! Heaven! if he should be captured?”’ ary ‘I am afraid he would share Viadimir’s fate, even as he shares his company in their secret flight, unless his daughter could prove him to be of unsound mind, and thus save his lite.’” - “But what shall I do, I who have vowed that no peril, however great, shall deter me from watching over poor dear papa? Peter Smolensko, you have aided the father, can you not do the same by the daughter, and Heaven will bless you?’’ a ‘Impossible, I fear. Could you not proceed to Paris and await him there?’’ says the. other, hardly realizing how he shall be able to refuse the pleading beauty, and yet fearful of the consequences should he accede. -' “But he may never go near Paris—we are not at all certain, you know. And on the-way—he is nervous and strung up to concert pitch--he may suddenly give out and be left: to die: I should never forgive myself-if I failed to follow him because there was danger in the -andertaking. Sir, if it is necessary-I too will become a Nihilist.” + **No, no!’ cries Donahue, ‘aghast, for he realizes what an'awful thing this sacrifice to: love and duty may prove 46 Dovis. comicbooks.com