The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 238: what you’re looking at

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R320 THE GIRL-FROM HONG-KONG. defeat with: regard ‘to Doris is’ a- foregone concliision. He proves himself a worthy as well as a brave rival.: | ~~ **You have won the game, Mr. Donahue. From my ‘heart, fugitive that you are at this moment, I-envy you. I would change places only too willingly: ‘Duty com- pels my attention to turn in other quarters. The breach between us is healed.. Why not? Our fathers together fought against: Napoleon—the Crimea is but’a meinory. The day when Great Britain consents to our possessing Constantinople, the dream ofa century, we beconie ‘her firmest ay and all thought of evil designs on India. cease.’ ~ Thus he shakes hands with the London man. Truly this baron is a strange mixture of good and evil, - anomaly for a Russian, since they are usually one or the other. . “You understand,’’ he continues later, after they. have spoken of the prospeet ahead, “my name must never be breathed in the matter.. The whole country is being searched for Smolensko and Vladimir. I-have endeavored to keep your route as clear as possible, so that if you can reach the coast all will be well: Whate ‘ever Smolensko says, obey to the letter. If the boat can- not’ be reaehed, he has one. other chance of - leaving Russia, a desperate one, it is true, which was prepared for Vladimir. . He will know. I am -going mow.---No, I comicbooks.com