The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 274: what you’re looking at

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268 THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. OHAPTER XXVIIL AT FOUR 0’CLOOK. Ten minutes later an -apparition bursts upon the vision of Doris and Terry just as they are leaving the carriage at the door of. the hotel, it being deemed inju- dicious. to remain ‘away more than an hour or so ata time, lest some important message arrive during their’ “absence, and a chance be lost. It is Sandy, of. course, coming down the street’ onthe full ran, waving his plaid, which he always’insists upon carrying under his coat. Close at his heels trots Pekooe Tay, apparently sharing in his excitement, while in the rear gallops a stout gendarme, evidently determined ‘to know what the object of all this excitement may be, and bent upon impressing these foreigners with the fact that when they are in Paris they must do as the Parisians do. Doris, however, realizes there is a method in Sandy’s madness—the big Highlander is too staid by nature to carry on in this way unless with good reason. Nor does she once suspect that he has been over-indulging in the absinthe of the French rounder—his gait is too steady for that. © [ comicbooks.cona