The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 243: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. gi just opposite, and as he looks a startled exclamation escapes him. | “I do not see the blue signal—can it be possible ‘we have arrived too late—that. Valdimir has already em- barked and the little greyhound slipped her leash?” Terry is naturally alarmed at this dismal prospect facing them. ‘They cannot much longer dodge the fly- ing squadrons of the ozar’s horsemen, who will doubtless search every rod of ground. *~ §Tiook again,”’ he says, “‘nerhaps they only show the signal now and then. It may appear presently. A blue light, you say. Please Heaven that it rewards us.”’ ‘I know just where she should lie, and not a light appears. The captain has orders to cut loose from his ‘anchor and spin out for the Baltic as soon as Valdimir sets foet on his deck.”’ ‘*Look, what is that far away to the west—a rocket?’ Smolensko utters a cry of bitter chagrin. ‘““Yes—yes—watch and see—a blue shower of stars if it is the boat and he is on board.’”’ The rocket has mounted upward toward the heavens, made a graceful curve, and hardly has the Pole ceased speaking than a faint sound is heard, followed by « shower of blue stars. ‘We are too late—the boat is gone—at least Viadinir, ig safe. thank God!” n s Smoleiisko, interest ‘i is safe, thank God!’ murmurs 8 k ),, interest in