The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 272: what you’re looking at

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266 THH GIRL FROM HONG-KONG. \ On the way back to the hotel the two comrades stop to watch a stream of richly attired ‘peopie passing into @ large frame building’ on ‘the Rue Jean Goujon. Many carriages come aind | go, showing that it is a very fashion- able gathering, and already the building seems to be crowded with France’s aristocracy. Sandy is possessed of a sterling curiosity that demands te know the why and wherefore of everything, and he seta. to work endeavoring to find out what sort of func- tion this may represent. It is not a hard chestnut to crack—the information ig soon in his possessiou—a fancy sale is in progress, the proceeds to go to charity. Once a year this oceurs, and fashion gathers at a ‘bazaar where a large sum is raised for the amelioration of the condition of the poor.\ All of which Sandy understands readily enough, though it is worse than Sanscrit to the heathen Chinee. His curiosity satisfied, the canny Scot, not desirous of seeing his ready cash melt away in that shape, is on the point of leaving the covered entrance to the bazaar, when his eyes fall upon a couple just going in. Somehow the sight seems to give the Caledonian piper a severe shock—he gasps for breath, and in a hoarse whisper bids Pekoe Tay observe. Then as the gentle _ comicbooks. conn