The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 144: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

138 THE GIRL FROM HONG-EKONG. ( ean’t talk it,” mutters Terry, but this is not strange, as it may be met with in many instances. ‘As Pekoe Tay quietly ‘drops into line behind his- master, the messenger, happening to glance back to make sure he is being followed, shows visible signs of displeasure, but Terry does not make out as though he notices the fact, and so they keep on. Fortune arranges it that they pass close to where the red piper of brake and fen sits, his now idle bagpipes held i in his lap, as he possibly indulges in tender memo- ries of the beloved land never forgotten by her exiled children. | | Terry bends forward so that his head is close te thas of the scrawny Scot. a * “Fall in, and be ready for boarders,” he says. Sandy is quick to comprehend, and at a glance seems to grasp the situation, for without a word he rises to his feet, tosses his bagpipes into position under his left arm, and drops in behind Pekoe Tay with the precision of 8 trained soldier. | - When the messenger looks around again he is almost paralyzed with astonishment to see ¢hree grim figures following his lead, the last an unconth one bearing @ mysterious burden under his arm. They can see him throw up both hands, ang act ag though demoralized for the nonce. comicbooks.con