The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 174: what you’re looking at

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168 - THE GIRL. FROM HONG-KONG. destination after a most arduous campaign, for one he id Mot: sorry. Looking back he can see the caravan trip to the Cas- pian, a stormy spring passage across that very wild body of water, and the difficulties experienced upon landing at the Russian military post of Krasnovodst, which he has reason to believe have been reall insti- gated by the baron, and which they pretend to say to some irregularity in bis carte de sejour. At length, managing to satisfy the officials, after he has threatened to wire the British ambassador, Terry ‘has made the perilous journey over the snow-clad moun- tains, an experience he’ will never forget, and which assumes greater importance in his eyes. because she has recently gone over the same ground in company with ‘those daridg American sphere-skippers, whom nothing seems to daunt. -» Chafing under these delays, which he, perhaps with- out reason; lays to the’ baron’s door, Terry finds the most’intense relief when his eyes behold the city so “recently the scene of such wonderful rejoicing, when all the nations of the world sent representatives to be pres- ent at the coronation of the czar. . It-is a city of great things—a city over which hover ‘many remarkable scenes, both festive and tragic. Terry ‘has had plenty of-tinie on the journey to remem ber:same comicbooks.com