The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 237: what you’re looking at

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| THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 231 imagined this handsome, dare-devil noble might have the inside track to Doris’ heart. That fear will never again disturb him. Still, the baron may be in a position to do them much injury, and when he finds that the quiet Englishman has been preferred above him, the demon of jealousy may get the better of his nature. Listening Terry soon discovers that the baron js the owner of the estate which now shelters them—that he is aware of their presence in the house, and, wonder of wonders, is planning for their escape. This tells him a startling fact—that in Russia to-day no man knows his brother’s secret life—that even among the aristocracy there are many in league with the Nihil- ists, who might least of all be suspected. i The baron, close to the czar as he is, has been drawn into the whirlpool; and it requires amazing shrewdness on his part to prevent the finger of suspicion being raised, his estates confiscated, and his last years delegated to work in the salt or Jead mines of that desolate region in the far North. What little he hears influences Terry. Frank himself by nature, he is only too charmed to know that the Rus- sian noble has been conquered by his better impulses. He appears before them and immediately faces the pow- erful nobleg That the other has already guessed his comicbooks.com