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Updated: June 10, 2025
"Oh, that's all part of the same story," said Shin Shira, refilling his pipe; "it has a sequel. "I found the King in his counting-house, industriously counting out his money. He left off when he saw me, though, and came forward to greet me heartily. "'The Queen, bless her! will be as delighted to see you as I am, said he; 'we'll go and find her. I fancy I know where she is.
They plied me with a hundred questions, of my adventures, and of my father, and of affairs up in Shira Glen. I sat answering very often at hazard, with my mind fixed on the one question I had to ask, which was a simple one as to the whereabouts and condition of their daughter. But I leave to any lad of a shrinking and sensitive nature if this was not a task of exceeding difficulty.
We all turned around to see what she meant, and at once I knew that it was Shin Shira appearing. "Oh, jolly!" cried all the children but Lionel, when I explained to them what was happening.
But Sutcliffe suddenly nudged my arm, and, with an amused twinkle in his eye, called my attention to a remarkable little figure standing beside him, dressed in an extraordinary yellow costume, and wearing a turban. "Why! bless me! It's Shin Shira!" I exclaimed. "I hadn't noticed you before." "No," said the Yellow Dwarf, "I've only just appeared. How very strange meeting you here!"
I hurriedly turned to the letter C, intending to look for "collar-stud" but, to my great disappointment, there was no such word to be found. "Of course not," I suddenly thought; "the people who live in the land from which Shin Shira comes don't wear such things," and I let my mind wander back to my little friend with his yellow silk costume and turban.
"Madam," said Shin Shira, getting down to the floor and bowing low in the Oriental manner, "you are mistaken in thinking that I came with a friend. I er appeared, because I was obliged to do so I " The Duchess came over to where I was sitting. "Do you know this person?" she inquired, pointing with her glasses towards Shin Shira. "Who and what is he? Did you bring him here, and if so why?"
"There's only one thing to be done, I suppose," said I resignedly, after sending the man away; "we shall have to return to the village and have our luncheon at the inn." "It won't be a picnic at all then," pouted Lady Betty ruefully. Shin Shira was the only one who did not seem distressed about the matter.
That attracted all his attention. He gave a glance at the people at the door the inn-keeper, MacGibbon, with an unusual Kilmarnock bonnet on that seemed to have been donned in a hurry; Rixa, in a great perturbation, having just come out of a shandry-dan with which he had been driving up Glen Shira; Major Paul, and Wilson the writer.
I ran across to the study, and undoing my desk, I found a little yellow-covered book attached to a golden chain which I had picked up just after my friend Shin Shira had vanished the last time he had visited me. It was the book which the fairies had given him, and contained directions as to what to do when in any difficulty.
I was a child again in Shira Glen, alone in a little chamber with a window uncurtained and unshuttered, yawning red-mouthed to the outer night My back was almost ever to the window, whose panes reflected a peat-fire and a face as long as a fiddle, and eyes that shone like coal; and though I looked little at the window yawning to the wood, I felt that it never wanted some curious spy outside, some one girning or smiling in at me and my book.
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