The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 173: what you’re looking at

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BOOK IIL How He Foueur ror Her w Ruseta. CHAPTER XVII. WITHIN SIGHT OF THE KREMLIN. St. PETERSBURG has been unusually gay during the season just passed, and in many quarters the echoes of the magnificent spectacle attending tae coronation of the czar in the preceding spring will be heard for months to come. | At such a time the capital on the Neva is swollen by the advent of thousands upon thousands of pilgrims, and the iron rules by which the present dynasty retains its power have been ‘strained almost to the point of breaking; but as on numerous other occasions they have _ come through the crisis with credit, and the scheming Nihilists must again defer their stroke for freedom. When Terry Donahue discovers the frowning fortress of the Kremlin, angd- realizes that he has reached his comicbooks.com