The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 123: what you’re looking at

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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG@. =— 117 thrown in Sandy’s:way an opportunity to make some discovery. As it possibly concerns Doris he awaits the particulars with impatience. ‘Sandy is nothing if not cautious, and before he will speak a word he persists in. bobbing his red head out of the-open.window as if determined that no spy shall over- hear his little yarn by crouching outside in the gather- ing shadows of twilight. ‘ And every now and then, while they converse, he varies the monotony by dashing his head and shoulders through the opening as though inspired with the suspicion that half the citizens of Teheran have. conspired to oversee his private business. “Pil tell ye what it’s a’ aboot, my laddie, and a sair job it seems to-be. To think that the sweet girlie should have enemies who seek to do her: harm. Ah! it: is peetiful, sor; but human nature is much the same all over the warl’, so I find.’ “Get to the point, Sandy, with as little mbralizing as you can. Time is sometimes worth more than money, you understand,” says the impatient lover, anxious to learn what threatens the divinity at whose shrine he worships. , “IT ken that, Mr. Terry.. Aweel, ye see, I was brought up to take a wee bit drap betimes, and if.thare2pi.neen