The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 244: what you’re looking at

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238 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KON @. his own personal affairs being for the moment swallowed up iq the heartfelt thankfulness over the knowedge that his chief has escaped the vengeance of Siberia. ‘‘And my father also,”’ says Doris, whose affection serves her in somewhat the same way. Terry realizes the gravity of their situation. If the little steamer or ship that was to receive them aboard and bear them away from the inhospitable shores of cold Russia has already taken her flight, how then shall they escape? °. He is aghast at the prospect. The wide and wild Baltic yawns between the Finnish coast and the friendly shores of Sweden, while-German territory lies hundreds of miles to the southwest, far beyond Riga and _ the- Baltic provinces. To reach it seems a task utterly ‘impossible in the eyes of the usually sanguine Briton; but even he does not guess how well prepared thése projectors of the secret route to liberty have become. through dire necessity. And while they stand there straining their eyes in the direction whence the blue rotket flashed into view, as though eager to have one glimpse of the little vessel bearing away a son of liberty, they suddenly become conscious of the fact that considerable shouting and excitement have broken out below. “¥ fear they have discovered us here—we were unwise comicbooks.con