The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 249: what you’re looking at

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BOOK Iv. How Hz Won Her Turover Fire iw Pari. a CHAPTER XXY. THE VOYAGE OF THE sKY TRAVELERS. In all his stretch of life Terry Donahue can remember no time when the agonies of suspense so racked his whole frame as during those brief seconds’ when the ~ great gas globe is mounting up toward the heavens, bear- ing in the light metallic car among others the fair being whont he so madly loves, while far below can be heard the quick percussion of gun shots, as the baffled Cos- sacks, guessing how neatly they have been left_in the lurch, endeavor as a dernier ressort to send a bullet through the balloon, and thus insure the immediate déstruction of all those in the basket. Such“an immense object should not be any more diffi- cult to strike than a barn, and as a rule these rough- riders of the Tartary steppes are fair marksmen—at least Buffalo Bill has so declared, -™ comicbooks.com