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THE GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. 188 Tay, ohangeahis garments, sits down to a wretched lunch shastily provided, and manages to appease the pangs of hunger. | : _ Meanwhile the Celestial has unearthed Sandy, and both of them await the coming of the master out by the earriage that is to convey them to Doris. — The pair attract considerable notice, especially the Highlander, with his covered bagpipes under his arm, a fact that affords Sandy keen enjoyment. _ “Hoot man,” he remarks to his sedate companion, “‘if the -gillies think Sandy Oampbell an oddity with these breeks on,-I would nae like to answer for their sanity if -they saw a Hielander in'all his toggery wi’ kilt and tartan, and his pagpipes blowing the noo. It would bea -braw sight, and nae doubt might make some old war dog remember the sair times when the plaid was seen and the pipes heard around Sebastopol. Nothing would please me better than to give them a Hieland fling; but ‘we must gang awa’, for yon comes Mr. Terry in a -muckle hurry.’’ The three of them crowd into the drosky, which is again hurried through the streets in a manner that quite pleases the impatient Terry, who has a latent fear lest something may happen to change the mind of Doris. It is in reality the thought‘of the baron that gives him this uneasiness, and that ghost cannot be laid until comicbooks.com