The Girl from Hong-Kong: A Story of Adventure Under Five Suns — page 78: what you’re looking at

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72 THE. GIRL, -FROM-HONG-KONG The uncanny, sound _of . the: pibrech bas: 4 queer -effeat upon the various nationalities. constituting. the: company that assembles around the piper whenever he starts in to _give a free concert, and most of the Arabs and Afghans look upon him with. awe and suspicion as thong he might. be a wizard. - a “To Terry the old’ Highlander secretly confides his hope that they will run afoul of the brigands, because, he is anxious to try the effect of the weird masic ABB source of inspiration to the defenders of the camp, and a terror to the assailants.. a 7 ,.Sandy’s wish-is realized, sure. enough. On the very next night they are attacked. | The. head man of -the caravan -has piloted scores of such eXpeditions across the plateau and through ‘the mountain gorges, without ever losing a single. train, so that he is not at a loss as to what is necessary. Guards have been posted and all precautions.taken. — Thesudden rattle of firearms and loud shouts of the onrushing robbers sound doubly startling when heard in the dead of night. | In all parts. of the world. this same drama, has seen its counterpart—in Kaffirland when the fierce Matabele. and .their allies have gone upon the warpath against Boers British .settler—-upon the great plains of,North Ameniga when-wild Comanche or Sioux..in war paint::.asg comicbooks.com