The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 241: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 230 sut it is only to arouse his companion and fan her hopes. They have left the tenant house and are approaching the ragged coast line that marks the Gulf of Finland below that Russian stronghold of Kronstadt. | Once Terry sees Smolensko observe the clouds that float across the starry firmament,\and hears him mutter the word “excellent,’’ as though the fact of the prevail- ing breeze being settled almost due northeast gives him oonsiderahbie satisfaction. | Then the Briton remembers that they are to escape from Russia by boat, and realizes why the Pole rejoices. There is another reason, as yet unknowy to him, another method of crossing the guarded border that as yet has not entered into the philosophy of those outside the secret. Signs are not wanting to prove that the country is gow swarming with troopers. Evidently late in the day - some suspicion of the course taken by the fugitive leader of the Nihilists has been received by the puzzled authori- ties, who hope to entrap him at the last moment. At any rate signals flash from point to point, and several times our friends are compelled to leave the road and conceal themselves in the bushes in order to let a troop of rough-riding cavalrymen shoot by. Luckily the thunder of their horses’ hoofs upon the road is always prima facie evidence of their approach. , comichooks. com