The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 242: what you’re looking at

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236 | THE GIRL, FROM HONG-KONG. . Smolensko ,realizes, that, it is no ouper safe to remain upon the highroad. _, These troopers doubtless ‘have orders to form a cordon covering every known approach, to the coast, and at any moment they may hear the sharp challenge of a:sentry, and find themselves in a trap. | ’ Under such conditions it behooves them to exercise additional caution, and_so the main road is abandoned, ‘Smolensko taking to an intricate side trail, with which he seems to be perfectly familiar, for be it known this is not the ~first trip by, long odds the daring Pole has made along the ‘underground . route”’ traveled by. the Nihilists. | ‘‘In ten minutes we shall look upon the gulf,”’ remarks the leader, as among the scraggy bushes they toil up an elevation. | _ His words are verified, for by ‘the end of that limit they.stand on the crown, and before them is spread a royal panorama that in the daylight must be. grand indeed—the soft starlight gleaming on the countless little wayelets of the. gulf which lap the shore at the base of the acclivity on which they stand. ; | To the east gleam the many lights of Kronstadt, and here and there on the water some riding light announces the presence of a vessel. | | Smolensko eagerly rivets his gaze upona cartain point comicbooks.com