The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 121: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL PROM HONG-KONG. 115 On the other hand, sheuld a blessed fortune favor him, he will take the most exquisite pleasure in asking the distant relative of the great czar to levant, giving him to understand that his room is more to be desired than his company. White he thus walks and fumes and plans he suddenly discovers that some one is beckoning to him vigoraualy from the window of a hittle fehat-khan across the way. There can be no mistaking that florid, freckied face with the fiery whiskers—of course it ie the Highland piper, Sandy Campbell. - “JZ wonder what he wants—perhaps he has arranged to give a little concert over there. If so I warrant the street will soon be impassable, for no Persian’s ears eould eateh the groaning and shrieking of the bagpipes -without throwing ceremony to the winds and rushing to see what was the matter. Shall I go over? Yes, perbaps a httle of that wild music may stir me up to the sticking pomt, so that this question ‘may be settled between the baron and myself. ‘The deuce of it is Doris, has declared she would never recognize a4 man who had taken part in a duel, so that whether I lived or died I should lose her. Hang it all, was any man ever ina worse muddle? Perhaps Sandy may console me in some way.”’ And sure enough Sandy does. comicbooks.com