The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 41: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 35 He would like to learn something of her plans— whether she has concluded to make the perilous journey “over the Afghan border—but hesitates to ask, fearful lest she might consider him impertinent. An inspiration comes. The sight of a face among the flowers launches this new thought, and in another minute he has cornered an old fellow with a freckled Scotch face, who has been enjoying the brilliant scene from his shelter. | They have met before, and old Sandy must have been favorably disposed toward the London man, to judge from the vehement hand- clasp he gives. ‘How this Highlander drifted to China, and entered the service of the rich American consul years before, is a story In itself, which hardly concerns us now. He is as devoted to his lovely mistress as any old retainer might be, whose ancestors had served in the family | for generations back. Sandy has lost something of his Scotch dialect, though the burr is still plainly marked in his speech; and ocea- sionally he Japses into the characteristic idioms of his race, though never to an extreme limit. ” Terry at onee engages him in conversation, and delights the old piper’s heart by declaring his delight in the music of the Highlands—for Sandy is the possessor ef the most marvelous bagpipes out of Scotland, and is comiclooks.com