HAS ANYONE SEEN PIPER ? 



end came. One day I was going to the American 

 Express office and saw Piper fooling about with some 

 of his own countrymen, Highland officers, standing 

 alongside their cars by the Grand Hotel. I didn't 

 take any notice, thinking he would follow me. He 

 wasn't there when I came back, so I thought he had 

 gone home, or at all events that he was somewhere on 

 his " rounds." Tliere was no necessity to bother about 

 him, for he had frequently disappeared for a couple of 

 days at a time. On this occasion, however, I waited 

 and waited without any news of him. All the police 

 stations were notified and every effort was made to 

 find him, but without success, and a friend of three 

 and a half years was lost to me. I can only suppose 

 that he jumped in one of the cars which was going off 

 and the Highlanders must have thought that they had 

 a mascot which could not be turned out without risk 

 to their luck. 



If this should happen to be seen in print by any of 

 them, and Piper is in the land of the living, I am 

 quite sure that he would be restored to me in 

 Paris, for it is almost a certainty that he is in 

 France. 



The history of the dog is that he may have been 

 stolen in England long before I got hold of him. The 

 tale of the man who first made the sale was that he 

 had won the gold medal in Cardiff, beating sixteen other 

 West Highland terriers. Eventually he found his way 

 to France. Whether he swam or hid himself on a 

 boat is not known ; at all events Captain Langford of 

 the Travellers' Club gave him to Lucien Lyne, who 

 asked me to look after him for a few days. The 

 following week Lyne asked me : " How's the dog 

 behaving ? " 



I made a face and answered : 

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