The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 245: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 239 to stand outlined against the sky; but if so the mischief: has been done, and they are urging their horses up in this direction,’’ says Smolensko, whose coolness is cer- tainly wonderful considering the comparatively desperate character of their position as fugitives. | “What is the next move?” asks Terry, while his mauner plainly says, ‘‘Is it to be fight or run?’’ ‘There is a chance—a desperate one it is true, but we are in no position to choose. Vladimir would have taken it had the boat failed him. They shall sail away on the water—-we must trust to the atmosphere for safety. Follow me with all spedd.”’ Then begins a race, the equal of which Terry never in all his life experienced. . With the agile Pole leading, he and Pekoe Tay assist Doris by every means in their power. For a time she appears as lithe as a greyhound, and splendid progress is made, but by degrees she loses her breath, and it is necessary that she needs their help in order to get along. Where they are going Terry has not the remotest idea, but his trust in Smolensko is superb, and so the wild race against time and all Russia is maintained, with the chances as to who will come under the wire first equally divided. Dox'- is suffering—whatever the consequences may ba _