The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 247: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL: FROM HONG- KONG. 241, who-lest. the chance the year, before but intends trying . once more with favoring winds. Of course this is all a blind—the professor. is.a sturdy Nihilist, and the gas-bag has been inflated on this night. because secret signals were discovered by the sentry on the lookout, telling them it may be possible that. the balloon is wanted to save a leading member of their order from the claws of the wolf. Terry realizes what both the baron and Smolensko meant by saying it was a “‘desperate chance,’’ but with the vengeful troopers searching the contiguous terri- tory for them, it is no time to hesitate. Another minute, and almost breathless they have reached the spot where the monster is tethered. - ‘The professor is on hand, a few sentences are ex- changed, he surveys their number with apprehension, and then. begins to. toss out sand-bags in.a stream. “‘Quick! I hear horses,’’ hé ejaculates. Terry himself lifts Doris into the car—this is no time for ceremony, since life and liberty depend upon the events of the next minute. ‘‘All ready!’ cries the professor, and as the answer is satisfactory he lays his keen knife on the main guy rope. | A shout is heard down the road, and a command roared in Russian, but heeding it not the professor presses his / the strained rope. Oe meade —_—_ P comicloooks.conm