The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 254: what you’re looking at

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248 =. CHE. GIRL. FROM. HONG-KONG. and thus they approach Riga at.only a moderate distance - from the earth. . | po hh. The sight is indeed wonderful, for a city when gazed upon-from a point half a mile in the air presents some queer features that are never dreamed of by those who daily walk the streets. Just when they are fairly above Riga their thoughts are turned into another channel by a dull roar ,below, . and a strange humming sound close by, followed by a sharp explosion i in advance. | Oo Donahue has seen the puff. of smoke from the crown of an elevation, and the presence of fortitications-in that quarter. tells him the awful truth. ‘Good Heavens! the forts are sending shells at us— they have been warned from Kronstadt!’ he ejaculates. For once a dumb feeling of terror chills his blood. What if one flying fragment of a bursted shell should strike the monster gas-globe—a rent as large as one’s little finger would do the Wasiness, since the mighty - power confined within | would burst its bonds, and none of the sky travelers meal ever know what hurt them. ‘The professor has realized ‘the truth at the same time, and grasping the situation, begins tossing out a number of sand-bags. | ; a -They have not many of, these aboard, owing..to, the ahagial number: of-persons in the car, but enough Oarg@:. comicbooks.com